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Many species in fire-prone environments germinate after fire including most taxa in the genus Anigozanthos Labill. Following preliminary studies with Anigozanthos manglesii D. Don subsp. manglesii, the response of several Anigozanthos taxa to germination stimulants relating to…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: heat effects, smoke effects, wildfires, seed germination, Anigozanthos, western Australia, Australia, fire management, Mediterranean habitats, kangaroo paw, KAR1, morphophysiological dormancy, underdeveloped embryos, 2, 3-dihydroxypropanenitrile, 3-methyl-2H-furo[2, 3-c]pyran-2-one
In July and August 2012, a combination of dry weather and record-breaking temperatures led to an unusually intense wildfire season in Boreal Asia. Based on model results and satellite observations it is thought that a portion of the smoke output from these fires was carried…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence
Region(s): Northwest, International
Keywords: wildfires, aerosols, air quality, particulates, remote sensing, Siberia, Russia, Asia, British Columbia, Canada, fire management, smoke management, LiDAR, aerosols, long range transport, air quality, 2012 boreal Asia fires
Bushfires occur worldwide, including regions in which winegrapes are grown. Recent research on grape and wine composition has demonstrated that wine made from smoke-affected grapes can be tainted. However, little is known about the impact of fire on grapevines, in particular the…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire injuries (plants), scorch, smoke effects, wildfires, agriculture, fruits, southern Australia, Australia, fire management, smoke management, bushfire, grapevines, guaiacol, semillon, Pinot noir, vine growth
The 2006 Esperanza Fire in Riverside County, California, was simulated with the Coupled Atmosphere-Wildland Fire Environment (CAWFE) model to examine how dynamic interactions of the atmosphere with large-scale fire spread and energy release may affect observed patterns of fire…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Safety, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire case histories, fire injuries (humans), fire size, fuel loading, fuel models, heat, rate of spread, wildfires, Foehn winds, remote sensing, temperature, wind, southern California, fire management, forest management, airborne remote sensing, coupled atmosphere-fire model, horizontal roll vortices, Santa Ana winds, Esperanza Fire
The aim of this paper was to provide an overview of the current state of the art on research into the emission of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) from vegetation fires. Significant amounts of VOCs are emitted from vegetation fires, including several reactive…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, heat effects, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, chemical compounds, hydrocarbons, organic soils, ozone, plant communities, remote sensing, Africa, Amazon, South America, fire management, Mediterranean habitats, savannas, biomass burning, BVOC - Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds, combustion phases, forest fires, isoprenoids, plant communities and functional types
Forest ecosystems are a sink of atmospheric mercury, trapping the metal in the canopy, and storing it in the forest floor after litter fall. Fire liberates a portion of this mercury; however, little is known about the long-term release of mercury post deforestation. We conducted…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Eastern, International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, deforestation, Hg - mercury, soils, New York, Amazon, Brazil, South America, fire management, forest management, land use, soil management, deciduous forests, tropical forests, forest fire, soil, Hg - mercury, Amazon, Brazil, land use change
Question: What is the impact of the fire cues smoke and ash on seed germination of important functional groups in the heathland system, namely ericads, herbs and graminoids? We predict that if germination from heathland seed banks is in part regulated by fire cues, there should…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: human caused fires, smoke effects, ash, conservation, grasses, seed dormancy, seed germination, succession, Norway, Europe, fire management, range management, heathlands, anthropogenic disturbance, conservation management, heathland ecology, seed bank, succession
Two different types of typical Brazilian forest biomass were burned in the laboratory in order to compare their combustion characteristics and pollutant emissions. Approximately 2 kg of Amazon biomass (hardwood) and 2 kg of Araucaria biomass (softwood) were burned. Gaseous…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: combustion, fire intensity, laboratory fires, air quality, biomass, carbon dioxide, gases, hardwoods, lignin, particulates, pollution, Brazil, South America, fire management, forest management, forest biomass, combustion, lignin content, PM2.5, gas emissions
From the introduction ... 'Announcing the release of new software packages for application in wildland fire science and management, two fields that are already fully saturated with computer technology, may seem a bit too much to many managers. However, there have been some…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FEIS, fire intensity, fire regimes, LANDFIRE, wildfires, air quality, computer programs, fire management
CALIPSO Level-1 attenuated backscatter and Level-2 aerosol products (Version-3.01) are evaluated with a combined ground-based lidar and AERONET-sunphotometer measurements in the daytime over the New York metropolitan area. To assess the CALIPSO Level-1 product, we combine the co…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: smoke effects, aerosols, air quality, remote sensing, New York, fire management, smoke management, LiDAR, aerosol layer, type classification, extinction and backscatter
Fires are becoming more violent and frequent resulting in major economic losses and long-lasting effects on communities and ecosystems; thus, efficient fire monitoring is becoming a necessity. A novel triple multi-sensor approach was developed for monitoring and studying the…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: field experimental fires, chemistry, photography, Greece, Europe, fire management, smoke management, outdoors fire, field chemical analysis, volatiles, thermographic video analysis, acoustical analysis
Forest fires are a major contributor of gaseous and particulate compounds to the atmosphere, impairing air quality and affecting human health. A new forest fire emissions module was developed and integrated into the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), which…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire case histories, fire intensity, fire size, fuel loading, fuel moisture, wildfires, air quality, gases, humidity, overstory, particulates, pollution, precipitation, remote sensing, temperature, Portugal, Europe, fire management, forest management, smoke management, forest aires, burnt area, gas and particulate pollutants, air quality
From the text ... 'Extreme dry conditions and a forest full of fuel, including thousands of acres of trees killed by the mountain pine beetle, fed Montana's Pine Creek Fire in late summer 2012. The fire ended up burning more than 8,000 acres.'
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Fire Prevention, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: catastrophic fires, fire case histories, fire injuries (animals), fire intensity, fire size, heat, rate of spread, wildfires, climate change, disturbance, wind, Yellowstone National Park, Montana, Wyoming, fire management, forest management, coniferous forests
Changing climatic conditions are influencing large wildfire frequency, a globally widespread disturbance that affects both human and natural systems. Understanding how climate change, population growth, and development patterns will affect the area burned by and emissions from…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire frequency, fire size, wildfires, air quality, climate change, population density, fire management, forest management
A study was carried out to investigate the effects of fire related cues (heat and smoke) and sulphuric acid treatments on the germination of four woody savanna species, namely, Terminalia avicennioides, Piliostigma thonningii, Piliostigma reticulatum and Prosopis africana. The…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: heat effects, smoke effects, seed germination, seed production, West Africa, Africa, fire management, smoke management, savannas, heat, seed pretreatments, propagation by seeds, sudanian savanna, West Africa
Naturally occurring radionuclides of uranium, thorium, radium, lead and polonium were determined in bushes and trees and in the smoke from summer forest fires. Activity concentrations of radionuclides in smoke particles were much enriched when compared to original vegetation.…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, radiation, toxicity, Portugal, Europe, fire management, forest management, smoke management, forest fires, radioactivity, polonium, inhalation, radiation dose
Inventories of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from wildfire provide essential information to the state of California, USA, and other governments that have enacted emission reductions. Wildfires can release a substantial amount of GHGs and other compounds to the atmosphere, so…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): California
Keywords: fuel consumption, wildfire emissions, fuel load, greenhouse gas inventory, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model
The purposes of the Florida SMP are to mitigate public safety hazards (e.g. on roadways, in urban and exurban areas, and in the vicinity of airports) posed by smoke, to prevent deterioration of air quality including visibility impairment in Class I areas from wildland fire…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords:
The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by personnel from agencies and organizations within AWFCG during 2014 Fall Fire Review and through other solicitations. The topics were initially ranked by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: research needs
The Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program (FFS) of the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, focuses on fundamental and applied research in wildland fire, from fire physics and fire ecology to fuels management and smoke emissions. Located at the Missoula Fire…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: climate change, research, fuel management, research accomplishment report
The slideshow for this project was presented at the 2014 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: boreal forest, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire regime, fire severity, fuel loading, climate change, forest succession, permafrost, wildfire, annual area burned, mean annual temperature
Question: In many plant species from fire-prone ecosystems germination is promoted by smoke. Mediterranean Basin (MB) flora is no exception. However, most information regarding germination response to smoke in the MB comes from a few experiments performed in laboratory…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: recruitment, annual plant, germination, post-fire regeneration, Spain, soil seed bank, Mediterranean basin, fitness
Smoke from wildfires has adverse biological and social consequences, and various lines of evidence suggest that smoke from wildfires in the future may be more intense and widespread, demanding that methods be developed to address its effects on people, ecosystems, and the…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: climate change, smoke transport, wildfire regime, feedbacks, coupled models
Land managers rely on prescribed burning and naturally ignited wildfires for ecosystem management, and must balance trade-offs of air quality, carbon storage, and ecosystem health. A current challenge for land managers when using fire for ecosystem management is managing smoke…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, fire size, fuel loading, fuel consumption, 2006 Tripod Complex Fires
10 Minutes is an interview series where the Southern Fire Exchange talks with experts, leaders, and sages in southern wildland fire management and research. In this interview, the SFE speaks with Gary Curcio, a North Carolina based smoke and fire behavior expert with IPA Fire…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire management