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From the text ... 'Wildland fire managers face increasingly steep challenges to meet air quality standards while planning prescribed fire and its inevitable smoke emissions. The goals of sound fire management practices, including fuel load reduction through prescribed burning,…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, fuel loading, low intensity burns, rate of spread, smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, climate change, fire management, land management, smoke management
Multiple air monitoring campaigns were conducted from 2003 to 2007 during the months of December through April in which time-integrated monitoring of PM2.5 was performed during 55 prescribed burn (PB) events administered under select meteorological conditions. The data were…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire intensity, fire size, ignition, air quality, particulates, statistical analysis, wind, Georgia, South Carolina, fire management, smoke management, air pollution, Generalized Additive Models, mixed-models, particulate matter
Large forest fires are a known natural and dominant disturbance factor in high northern latitudes, and form pyrocumulus (pyroCu), and occasionally pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds. These clouds can transport emissions into the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UT/LS) and…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Models, Climate
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire size, wildfires, radiation, remote sensing, Saskatchewan, Canada, fire management, smoke management, remote sensing, pyrocumulus, clouds, fires, biomass burning, radiometer, Monte Carlo, three-dimensional (3D) radiative transfer, dffusion approximations, airborne
Particle size distribution from forest biomass combustion is an important parameter as it affects air quality, global climate and human health. There have been several studies that relate emission of 2.5-10 µm particulates and their effects on human health. The objective of this…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, air quality, climate change, health factors, particulates, Amazon, Brazil, South America, fire management, forest management, smoke management, ultra-fine particulate matter, real-time sampling, Amazon forest fires
Lightning causes one third of the 9000 wildfires that occur in Canada. Annually, these lightning-caused fires account for 90% of the area burned and cost Canadians at least 150 million dollars in suppression costs and values destroyed. Unlike the fires caused by human negligence…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Weather, Economics
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies spp., Acer, Betula, boreal forests, Canada, computer programs, duff, fine fuels, fire control, fire management, fire suppression, firebrands, flammability, fuel loading, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, hardwood forests, humidity, ignition, lightning, lightning caused fires, lightning effects, litter, moisture, physics, Picea, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, pine, Pinus strobus, Populus tremuloides, precipitation, rate of spread, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, storms, temperature, wildfires, wind, woody fuels
A climatic gradient across Northwestern Ontario induces a spatial gradient in fire incidence, with few fires in the Northeastern part and many in the Southwestern part. The resultant landscape mosaics exhibit maximum landscape (beta) diversity with intermediate disturbance…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: Abies balsamea, aesthetics, age classes, boreal forests, Canada, CO2 - carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, distribution, disturbance, fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, climate change, human caused fires, landscape ecology, lightning caused fires, mosaic, national parks, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Picea glauca, Pinus banksiana, plant communities, Populus tremuloides, prescribed fires (chance ignition), statistical analysis, temperate forests, trees, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
The western national parks managed by the Canadian Parks Service (CPS) are dominated by fire dependent forests of lodgepole pine, spruce and trembling aspen. Values at risk and high-intensity fire regimes limit the acceptability of unscheduled (lightning and unplanned man)…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerial ignition, age classes, Canada, coniferous forests, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, flame length, fuel types, headfires, human caused fires, ignition, lightning, lightning caused fires, mortality, national parks, Picea, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus glabra, Populus tremuloides, prescribed fires (chance ignition)
Model calculations, constrained by satellite observations, indicate that most of the smoke from the oil fires in Kuwait will remain in the lowest few kilometres of the troposhere. Beneath the plume there is a severe reduction in daylight, and a day-time temperature drop of 10…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, air temperature, Asia, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, disturbance, environmental impact analysis, Kuwait, Middle East, N - nitrogen, ozone, particulates, pH, precipitation, seasonal activities, smoke effects, S - sulfur, temperature
The response of the global climate system to smoke from burning oil wells in Kuwait is investigated in a series of numerical experiments using a coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model with an interactive soot transport model and extended radiation scheme. The results…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, air temperature, ENSO, heat, India, Kuwait, Middle East, particulates, precipitation, radiation, season of fire, soot, statistical analysis, temperature
In 1985, Yosemite began using a geographic information system for fire management and research. The system has been used to compare historic fire incidence over a range of topography and vegetation types. Parkwide fuel inventories and prescribed burn units have also been…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: BEHAVE, fire management, GIS - geographic information system, Yosemite National Park, research, Abies magnifica, chaparral, climatology, computer program, coniferous forests, fire frequency, fire growth, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel inventory, fuel moisture, lightning, lightning caused fires, moisture, national parks, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, Pinus contorta, lodgepole pine, radiation, rate of spread, statistical analysis, subalpine forests, temperature, topography, vegetation surveys, wind
n this chapter we describe the results of airborne studies of smokes from 17 biomass fuel fires, including 14 prescribed fires and 3 wildfires, burned primarily in the temperate zone of North America between 34° and 49°N latitude. The prescribed fires were in forested lands…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: North America, trace gases, smoke particulates, biomass fires
The State of North Carolina has engaged in an active prescribed fire and smoke management program since the 1970s in an effort to maintain a healthy ecosystem and minimize uncontrolled fuel overgrowth that contributes to catastrophic wildfires. Each of the State's 13 natural…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: NFDRS - National Fire Danger Rating System, North Carolina, fire data
Wildland fire managers face increasingly steep challenges to meet air quality standards while planning prescribed fire and its inevitable smoke emissions. The goals of sound fire management practices, including fuel load reduction through prescribed burning, are often challenged…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, smoke emissions, smoke management, smoke science research
Emissions of trace gases and particulate matter from burning of biomass are generally factored into global climate models. Models for improving the estimates of the global annual release of emissions from biomass fires are presented. Estimates of total biomass consumed on a…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, trace gas emissions, biomass burning, atmospheric chemistry
The present volume discusses the biomass burning (BMB) studies of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry project, GEO satellite estimation of Amazonian BMB, remote sensing of BMB in West Africa with NOAA-AVHRR, an orbital view of the great Chinese fire of 1987, BMB's…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: air pollution, deforestation, global warming, ozone, forest fires, global, atmospheric chemistry, fuel combustion
The Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station conducts research on a wide range of topics to improve the management and use of natural resources. Categorizing this research is often difficult because in many cases the crux of an issue lies in its connection to many natural…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Aquatic
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: fire, wildlife, climate change, watersheds, community sustainability, forests and grasslands, learning events
Fires in agricultural ecosystems emit greenhouse gases and aerosols that influence climate on multiple spatial and temporal scales. Annex 1 countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), many of which ratified the Kyoto Protocol, are required to…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: agriculture, CO2 - carbon dioxide, cropland fires, mitigation, biomass burning, satellite observations, radiative forcing, fire frequency, aerosols, air quality, greenhouse gases, remote sensing, fire management, range management, croplands
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: forest health, climate change, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team
Background: Characterizing factors which determine susceptibility to air pollution is an important step in understanding the distribution of risk in a population and is critical for setting appropriate policies. We evaluate general and specific measures of community health as…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: North Carolina, asthma, air pollution, air quality, heart failure, climate change, wildfires, disparities and susceptibility, public health
The methodology for this assessment explicitly addressed ecosystem disturbances, including human- and naturally caused wildland fires, as required by the EISA legislation (U.S. Congress, 2007; Zhu and others, 2010). As indicated by figure 1.2 in chapter 1 of this report, the…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: climate change, area burned, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, wildfires, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, mitigation, fire management
This assessment was conducted to fulfill the requirements of section 712 of the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 and to improve understanding of carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes in ecosystems of the Western United States. The assessment examined carbon…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: climate change, C - carbon, carbon storage, greenhouse gases, flux, sequestration, wildfires
Boreal forest fires are an important source of terrestrial carbon emissions, particularly during years of widespread wildfires. Most carbon emission models parameterize wildfire impacts and carbon flux to area burned by fires, therein making the assumption that fires consume a…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: fire regimes, surface fuels, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, cover, fire management, forest management, boreal forests, boreal forest, C - carbon, dNBR - differenced (or delta) Normalized Burn Ratio, NLCD - National Land Cover Database
Biomass burning (BB) contributes large amounts of black carbon (BC) and particulate organic matter (POM) to the atmosphere and contributes significantly to the earth's radiation balance. BB particles can be a complicated optical system, with scattering and absorption…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: biomass burning, fire case histories, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, organic matter, particulates, Colorado, fire management, forest management, coniferous forests, forest fire, tar balls
This paper examines the economic potential for fire management to provide offsets to carbon markets in the savannas of northern Australia. Long-term field trials in Australia's savannas have quantified greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions abatement resulting from improved fire…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfires, C - carbon, climate change, greenhouse gases, Northern Territory of Australia, Australia, fire management, forest management, savannas, carbon market, climate change mitigation, fire management, greenhouse gas offset, Indigenous fire management
Prescribed fire can potentially reduce carbon emissions from unplanned fires. This potential will differ among ecosystems owing to inherent differences in the efficacy of prescribed burning in reducing unplanned fire activity (or 'leverage', i.e. the reduction in area of…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: fine fuels, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel types, surface fuels, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, climate change, litter, statistical analysis, Eucalyptus spp., Australia, fire management, forest management, fuel management, smoke management, sclerophyll forests