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Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: education, fire case histories, fire management, Komarek, E.V., Sr., Los Alamos, Mexico, national forests, national parks, New Mexico, public information, smoke management, Tall Timbers Research Station

Biomass characterization and fire behavior documentation were carried out on two large (>2000 ha) experimental fires conducted in arid savanna fuels in Kruger National Park in September 1992. Prefire fuel loads, fuel consumption, spread rates, flame zone characteristics, and…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, backfires, biomass, convection, energy, experimental fires, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, flame length, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, grasses, headfires, humidity, ignition, national parks, particulates, precipitation, rate of spread, sampling, savannas, South Africa, temperature, vegetation surveys, wind

After replacement of tropical primary forests, fire becomes an important management tool. During establishment of plantations with fast-growing tree species and within slash-and-burn agriculture, the export of macronutrients and other elements to the atmosphere by burning was…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Amazon, ash, Brazil, clearcutting, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, land use, leaching, litter, nutrients, particulates, plantations, precipitation, slash, slash and burn, soil leaching, South America, tropical forests, volatilization, slash burning, nutrient release, humid tropics

Ozone generation is computed in a one-dimensional photochemistry code following convective redistribution of tropical urban effluent into the free troposphere. Simulations are run at several stages of pollutant dilution by surrounding surface air. A threshold boundary layer NOx…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Amazon, Brazil, convection, forest management, hydrocarbons, ozone, rate of spread, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke management, South America, storms, tropical forests, wildfires, wind

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Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Adenostoma fasciculatum, Africa, Australia, bark, bibliographies, boreal forests, Casuarina, Ceanothus, chaparral, chemistry, coniferous forests, distribution, Emmenanthe penduliflora, fire dependent species, fire regimes, fynbos, grasses, Hakea, heathlands, Leucadendron, Mediterranean habitats, Pinus attenuata, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, plant growth, population ecology, post fire recovery, Protea, reproduction, roots, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, Sequoia sempervirens, serotiny, shrublands, small mammals, smoke effects, South Africa, sprouting, tropical forests, vulnerable species or communities, Widdringtonia

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Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, Argentina, Asia, bibliographies, biogeochemical cycles, biogeography, biomass, Brazil, Canada, crown fires, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, grasslands, India, Indonesia, Mediterranean habitats, Nepal, Philippines, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, plantations, savannas, sedimentation, tropical forests, Vietnam, wildfires

From the text...'This conceptual guide, Land Management Considerations in Fire-Adapted Ecosystems, provides baseline information for addressing fire management considerations in the Information/Assessment Phase of land management planning. The fire-related considerations are: 1…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: catastrophic fires, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire adaptations, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, land management, landscape ecology, national forests, pine forests, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus monticola, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus strobus, public information, smoke management, succession, surface fires, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires

Fires can mobilize radionuclides from contaminated biomass through suspension of gases and particles in the atmosphere or solubilization and enrichment of the ash. Field and laboratory burns were conducted to determine the fate of I, Cs and C1 in biomass fires. Straw, wood, peat…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, ash, biomass, Canada, chemical elements, chlorine, coniferous forests, cropland fires, fire management, fuel loading, fuel types, gases, laboratory fires, land management, peat, peat fires, pesticides, Pinus banksiana, Populus tremuloides, temperature, wildfires, wood, wood chemistry

Experimental studies and mesoscale modeling of atmospheric chemistry require a good knowledge of the sources of the atmospheric constituent, at a temporal scale of about one hour and at a spatial scale corresponding to the model grid. A combined remote sensing/modeling approach…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, biomass, chemical elements, chemistry, distribution, fire frequency, fuel appraisal, gases, climate change, ignition, land management, rate of spread, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, shrublands, statistical analysis

Abundant charcoal in forest soils gives evidence of prehistoric and historic natural and anthropogenic wildfires in perhumid lowland and in seasonal Dipterocarp forest types of continental and insular South Asia. Favorable conditions for the occurrence of historic and…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Weather, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, agriculture, Asia, biomass, Borneo, charcoal, chemical elements, chemistry, Dipterocarpus, droughts, ENSO, fire intensity, fire regimes, forest management, forest types, human caused fires, soils, tropical forests, wildfires, wood chemistry

From the Current Solutions...'Some breakthroughs in providing more latitude for expanding prescribed fire programs are apparent. For example, the state of Florida has enacted innovative legislation that provides liability protection for prescribed burning. In Oregon, a…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, Great Basin, Southwest, International
Keywords: air quality, Blue Mountains, cutting, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, Florida, forest management, land management, landscape ecology, liability, logging, mountains, multiple resource management, national forests, natural resource legislation, New Mexico, Oregon, partial cutting, salvage, thinning, trees, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife

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Person:
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, biomass, distribution, disturbance, fire frequency, forest fragmentation, grasses, mosaic, particulates, photography, precipitation, remote sensing, savannas, seasonal activities, Tanzania, weather observations, Zambia

From the text...'Prescribed Burning Act of 1990 ... A blue-ribbon committee translated these prescribed burning concerns into proposed legislation that was introduced into the 1990 legislative session. Representative Frances L. "Chance” Irvine and Senator Karen Thurman led the…
Person:
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Safety
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, burning intervals, competition, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, education, European settlement, fire dependent species, fire equipment, fire exclusion, fire management, fire protection, fire size, Florida, France, fuel management, grazing, herbaceous vegetation, land management, landscape ecology, liability, livestock, Native Americans, natural resource legislation, nutrient cycling, pollution, prehistoric fires, public information, range management, reforestation, smoke management, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), state forests, state parks, statistical analysis, Stoddard, H.L., Tall Timbers Research Station, wilderness areas, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wildlife management

To demonstrate the usefulness of active remote-sensing systems in observing forest fire behavior, we studied two fires, one using a 3.2-cm-wavelength Doppler radar, and one more extensively, using Doppler lidar. both instrumentS observed the kinematics of the convection column,…
Person:
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: ash, Canada, Colorado, convection, distribution, fire management, ignition, mountainous terrain, needles, Ontario, remote sensing, smoke behavior, vortices, wildfires, wind

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Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Eastern, International
Keywords: Abies spp., Acer saccharinum, agriculture, air quality, Artemisia, Betula alleghaniensis, boreal forests, Canada, Carpinus, Carya, Castanea dentata, charcoal, Corylus, crown fires, deciduous forests, ecosystem dynamics, Fagus grandifolia, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire frequency, fire regimes, fire scar analysis, fossils, Fraxinus, Fraxinus americana, ignition, lakes, leaves, Minnesota, moisture, New York, Ontario, Ostrya, paleobotany, paleoecology, particulates, Picea, pine hardwood forests, Pinus banksiana, Pinus resinosa, Pinus strobus, Plantago, pollen, Populus, Quercus, Quercus alba, Quercus rubra, Quercus velutina, Rumex, sedimentation, senescence, site treatments, statistical analysis, Tilia americana, Tsuga, Tsuga canadensis, Ulmus, xeric soils, charcoal analysis, climate change, eastern deciduous forest, forest dynamics, pollen analysis, western New York state, VARVE THICKNESS, MIXED HARDWOODS, ARBOREAL POLLEN

Airborne studies of smoke from the Kuwait oil fires were carried out in the spring of 1991 when 4.6 million barrels of oil were burning per day. Emissions of sulfur dioxide were 57% of that from electric utilities in the United States; emissions of carbon dioxide were 2% of…
Person:
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, combustion, environmental impact analysis, gases, Kuwait, Middle East, particulates, radiation, smoke behavior, smoke effects, soot, statistical analysis, S - sulfur, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, wildfires

Fire behavior on a 2 ha fire, inferred from physical evidence observed one week after the fire, was compared with fire behavior estimates obtained using the BEHAVE fire behavior prediction system and fuel measurements in Imperata cylindrica (Alang-alang) made in the same area.…
Person:
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire behavior prediction systems, Indonesia, resprouting, Imperata cylindrica, fuel bed, alang-alang, Acacia mangium, bark, coniferous forests, crown scorch, dead fuels, Eupatorium, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire models, fire suppression, flame length, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, humidity, Imperata cylindrica, Java, live fuels, mortality, plantations, rate of spread, scorch, site classes, soot, statistical analysis, wind

The mesoscale meteorological model MEMO was applied to a real fire situation, which occurred in the central area of Portugal, with a very complex topography. In order to numerically provide boundary values at a higher temporal and spatial resolution, a one-way nesting technique…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: forest fire, Portugal, wind simulations, mesoscale model, complex terrain, air quality, air temperature, biogeography, climatology, Foehn winds, forest management, gases, humidity, Mediterranean habitats, nesting, rate of spread, sampling, statistical analysis, topography, wildfires, wind

Biomass burning is a common force in much of the developing tropical world and has wide-ranging environmental impacts. Fire is an important component in tropical deforestation and is often used to clear broad expanses of land for shifting agriculture, dispose of crop residue,…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: remote sensing, Brazil, airborne infrared imagery

This conference provided a forum in which resource specialists, managers, researchers, and other interested people could share their collective experiences, opinions, and informational needs on 1) the effects of fire on the resources, and 2) fire management in the Madrean…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southwest, International
Keywords: fire management, Madrean Province, research needs, air quality, community ecology, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire intensity, fire management planning, flame length, fire regimes, forest management, GIS - geographic information system, grazing, livestock, Madrean habitats, post-fire recovery, Mexico, rate of spread, wetlands, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

A large eddy simulation (LES) model of smoke plumes generated by large outdoor pool fires is presented. The plume is described in terms of steady-state convective transport by a uniform ambient wind of heated gases and particulate matter introduced into a stably stratified…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: crude oil, smoke plume, buoyant plume, large eddy simulation, in situ burning

To demonstrate the usefulness of active remote-sensing systems in observing forest fire plume behavior, we studied two fires, one using a 3.2-cm-wavelength Doppler radar, and one more extensively, using Doppler lidar. Both instruments observed the kinematics of the convection…
Person:
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: convection column, smoke plume, lidar data, smoke columns, Doppler lidar, Doppler radar

Emission factors for several trace gases were determined using airborne measurements from 13 biomass fires in North America. Emissions of methane (CH4), nonmethane hydrocarbons (NMHC), hydrogen (H2) and ammonia (NH3) were found to be positively correlated with the ratio of…
Person:
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, North America, smoke measurements, trace gas emissions, biomass burning, biomass burning emissions inventories, airborne measurements

Recent predictions that tropospheric aerosols have counterbalanced greenhouse warming assume aerosol emissions were low before ad1850 and then increased dramatically with industrialization of the Northern Hemisphere and biomass burning in the Tropics. We assembled the lake…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Eastern, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, charcoal, land use, aerosols, climate change, Northeast, biomass burning, deciduous forest, lake sediment, Midwest United States, Central Plains, air temperature, biomass, climatology, fire case histories, gases, lakes, land management, land use, sedimentation, Quebec, smoke effects, statistical analysis, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, wildfires

Forest management planning models are highly developed and used extensively, but few explicitly consider the effects of fire and other uncertain losses which can be significant. Previous studies recommended contradictory responses to potential fire loss. We developed forest-…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, optimization, harvest schedule, timber supply modeling, uncertain forest losses, Ontario, air quality, boreal forest, climatology, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, forest management, logging, plant growth