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The datasets distributed from the new "County Profiles" portal are designed to be used for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change compliant fire activity reporting and emission inventories. From the new portal, users can access tables, maps and interactive charts that…
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Year: 2021
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: GWIS - Global Wildfire Information System, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, GlobFire, datasets, burned area, remote sensing
The 2019–2020 summer wildfire event on the east coast of Australia was a series of major wildfires occurring from November 2019 to end of January 2020 across the states of Queensland, New South Wales (NSW), Victoria and South Australia. The wildfires were unprecedent in scope…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, WRF-Chem, wildfires, pollutant transport, air quality, health impacts, smoke plumes, smoke transport
The monitoring of wildfire smoke is important to help mitigate impacts on people such as by sending early warnings to affected areas. Received signal levels (RSLs) from radio links have been used as an opportunistic way to accurately measure rainfall and humidity. Radio links…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, PM - particulate matter, Australia, smoke measurements
Australian wildfires burning from December 2019 to January 2020 injected approximately 0.9 Tg of smoke into the stratosphere; this is the largest amount observed in the satellite era. A comparison of numerical simulations to satellite observations of the plume rise suggests that…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, pyroCb, stratospheric smoke, radiative forcing, ozone depletion, climate modeling
Aerosol pollution has become an increasingly serious problem in China. Among the multiple factors causing aerosol pollution, wildfires in China are occurring more frequently and have gradually become one of the most important contributing factors. However, little is known about…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: China, AOD - aerosol optical depth, burning areas, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, geodetector model, aerosol pollution, fire frequency
A new algorithm is described for joint retrievals of the aerosol optical depth and spectral absorption from EPIC observations in the UV—Vis spectral range. The retrievals are illustrated on examples of the wildfire smoke events over North America, and dust storms over greater…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: EPIC, MAIAC - Multi‐angle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction, aerosol, biomass burning, mineral dust, spectral absorption
The future status of peatlands as carbon stores/sinks is uncertain given current and predicted environmental change. Several factors can affect the magnitude of the peatland carbon sink including disturbances such as wildfire. There is at present little evidence of how wildfire…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Scotland, fire severity, C - carbon, carbon flux, CH4 - methane, CO2 - carbon dioxide, Calluna vulgaris, CBI - composite burn index, FWI - Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System, United Kingdom, peatland, wildfire
A physics/chemistry-based numerical model for predicting the emission of fine particles from wildfires is proposed. This model implements the fundamental mechanisms of soot formation in a combustion environment: soot nucleation, surface growth, agglomeration, oxidation, and…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: emission factor, wildfire modeling, soot formation, particulate emissions, fire simulations, HIGRAD, FIRETEC
This work presents the results of a virtual reality (VR) experiment aiming at investigating how individual driving behaviour is affected by the presence of wildfire smoke. The experiment included a driving simulation task to study the chosen driving speed at different smoke…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: driving speed, driving behavior, wildfires, smoke density, evacuation traffic modelling, Sweden
First Nation reserves in Canada are at high risk from wildfires, with many evacuated every year. There is a need to understand how First Nations are affected by wildfire evacuations to identify ways to reduce negative impacts. The First Nations Wildfire Evacuation Partnership…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, evacuation, wildfires, human factors, Indigenous, isolated communities, First Nations, health impacts
Particle mass and number of smoke aerosol exposures of firefighters were studied during prescribed fire events. In addition, organic and elemental carbon, functional content and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons were determined by spectrometric and chromatographic methods.…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: NMR spectroscopy, functional composition, GC-MS, BaP - benzo(a)pyrene, wildfire smoke, particle number, firefighters, firefighter health, Alabama
From the Conclusion: 'This analysis has presented a methodology for calculating values-at-risk, arguing that a market approach to assessing value is the most objective approach. Some resources are classified as 'intangible,' thus precluding a market-derived evaluation. These…
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Alabama, fire protection, forage, forest management, grazing, histories, hunting, logging, multiple resource management, rangelands, recreation, water, watersheds, wildlife
Three years of air quality data (1974—1976) were evaluated, with emphasis on total suspended particulates, in relation to the associated specific meteorological conditions, and to the observed smoke reports for the south Florida region. Characteristic weather situations were…
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, everglades, Florida, particulates, smoke management, south Florida, statistical analysis, urban habitats, weather observations, wind
Properties of bushfire smoke: the reduction in visibility resulting from prescribed fires in forests
Particulate concentrations in the smoke from a large prescribed fire in an Australian forest have been measured. Little agglomeration of the particles took place while the smoke was blown downwind. Using this information a simple model allows calculation of the minimum…
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, eucalyptus, fire management, fire size, forest management, jarrah, particulates, rural communities, smoke effects, statistical analysis, western Australia, wildfires, wind
Most western state laws pertaining to prescribed burning do not specifically deal with range rehabilitation. Prescribed burns require a burning permit issued by the State Forester, or his equivalent, prior to ignition during closed fire seasons. Air quality standards have been…
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, air temperature, arid regions, burning permits, CO - carbon monoxide, Colorado, combustion, fire control, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, hydrocarbons, ignition, liability, logging, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, particulates, pollution, post-fire recovery, season of fire, site treatments, slash, smoke management, statistical analysis, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, Utah, Washington, water, water quality, wind
It is now well established that fire plays an important part as a periodic disturbing influence on many of the forest types of North America. The species composition of such forests has undergone selection as a result of the regularity of fires during their history so that the…
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Betula, biomass, Calluna, charcoal, coniferous forests, deciduous forests, Europe, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, fire management, forest types, heathlands, lakes, nutrient cycling, phosphorus, Pinus, pollen, K - potassium, sedimentation, smoke effects, succession, wildfires
In a year of catastrophic wildland fires across the country, Alaska once again had the dubious honor of being host to the nation's largest wildland fire.
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: catastrophic fires, fire case histories, fire management, fire suppression, lightning caused fires, rate of spread, smoke effects, wilderness areas, wildfires
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, brush, Cascades Range, chemical compounds, chemistry, duff, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forage, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, litter, multiple resource management, Oregon, particulates, pollution, site treatments, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, Washington, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, forest management, gases, logging, national forests, national parks, Oregon, particulates, pollution, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, Washington, wilderness areas, wood
A method is proposed for estimating the weight of fuel burned (available fuel) by prescribed fires in southern pine stands. Weights of available fuel in litter alone and in litter plus understory materials can be estimated. Prediction equations were developed by regression…
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: moisture content, fuel consumption, litter layer, Cliftonia monophylla, disturbance, fire hazard reduction, Florida, fuel accumulation, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, Georgia, Ilex glabra, litter, loblolly pine, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, Serenoa repens, slash pine, smoke management, South Carolina
The occurrence of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in the combustion products of carbonaceous fuels is a well known phenomenon. Several PAW are known to be carcinogenic in animals. Benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) is the most well-known and studied compound of those classified by the…
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: carcinogen, forest fires, laboratory experiments, PAH - polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons
The atmospheric input of carbon dioxide from burning wood, in particular from forest fires in boreal and temperate regions resulting from both natural and man-made causes and predominantly from forest fires in tropical regions caused by shifting cultivation, is estimated to be 5…
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, biomass consumption, carbon cycle, CO2 - carbon dioxide, Germany, agriculture, air quality, bibliography, brush, C - carbon, combustion, cover type conversion, deforestation, forest management, forestation, human caused fires, lightning, lightning caused fires, logging, sedimentation, soil nutrients, statistical analysis, temperate forests, tropical forest, tropical regions, wildfires, wood
Summary ... 'There are several different types of forest fires, each with distinct sets of emission characteristics. Emission factors and rates vary widely with fire behavior and fuel conditions. Wherever possible, they should be expressed as ranges instead of single average…
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, backfires, backing fires, C - carbon, chemistry, combustion, dead fuels, duff, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel loading, fuel types, gases, headfires, herbaceous vegetation, hydrocarbons, hydrogen, laboratory fires, litter, live fuels, needles, particulates, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, residence time, sampling, smoke behavior, smoke management, temperature, wildfires, wind
Wildfires have an important role in the ecological process affecting ecosystems at multiple spatial scales. MCD64A1 500 m burned area product is used in this study to document trends of fire events from 2001 to 2019. The research aims to analyze the trend of burned areas in the…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Iran, land cover, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, remote sensing, wildfires, burned area, climate change, slope, air pollution, fire trends