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Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: combustion
In an effort to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning, renewable energy policies incentivize use of forest biomass as an energy source. Many governments have assumed (legislated) the carbon flux from burning biomass to be neutral because biomass growth sequesters CO2.…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, air quality, biomass, carbon dioxide, biogeochemical cycles, climate change, energy, fire management, forest management, bioenergy, climate change, forestry, life cycle analysis, discounting
From the text...'In closing, the para-cargo program is a proven cost-efficient, timely, and safe way to provide meals and suplies to firefighters in the field. Whatever firefighters need on the ground to do their job, they will received it through the para-cargo program.'
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: fire suppression (aerial), firefighting personnel, Idaho, fire management, smoke management
From the text: Firefighting, especially smokejumping, is an exercise in outlasting the uncomfortable. I think it has little to do with gender; rather it is each individual's assessment and subsequent reaction to a given situation.'
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: firefighting personnel, fire suppression (aerial), wildfires, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'A group of valiant men known as the Triple Nickles, the first African-American smokerjumpers, paved the way for so many in the smokejumping cadre...'
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire injuries (humans), fire suppression (aerial), firefighting personnel, wildfires, mortality, fire management, smoke management
From the text ... 'Smoke can be transported hundreds of miles downwind by prevailing winds or convective winds generated by fires themselves with concentrations sufficient to make it the most significant source of air pollution over large areas.'
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, climate change, pollution, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'Smokejumpers come from all over the country and represent a very diverse and well-educated workforce.'
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire suppression (aerial), firefighting personnel, wildfires, education, fire management, smoke management
From the text ... 'One of the smokejumper program's defining characteristics is its commitment to innovation--a constant refinement of equipment and techniques that hearkens back to the program's earliest days.'
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire equipment, fire suppression (aerial), wildfires, fire management, smoke management
We have demonstrated the use of an advanced Gaussian-Process (GP) emulator to estimate wildland fire emissions over a wide range of fuel and atmospheric conditions. The Fire Emission Production Simulator, or FEPS, is used to produce an initial set of emissions data that…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire danger rating, fuel loading, wildfires, fire management, smoke management, fire emission, statistical emulator, simulator, FEPS, emission prediction, Gaussian processes
Smog chambers are extensively used to study processes that drive gas and particle evolution in the atmosphere. A limitation of these experiments is that particles and gas-phase species may be lost to chamber walls on shorter timescales than the timescales of the atmospheric…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: atmospheric particles, gas, combustion, secondary organic aerosol
Fires impact atmospheric composition through their emissions, which range from long-lived gases to short-lived gases and aerosols. Effects are typically larger in the tropics and boreal regions but can also be substantial in highly populated areas in the northern mid-latitudes.…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: wildfires, fires, biomass burning, CO - carbon monoxide, O3 - ozone, aerosols, radiative forcing, injection height
A recent study of simulated forecast-based interventions as a tool to reduce the health and economic burden during smoke episodes. The study illustrated a large health burden associated with these events and the potential benefit an adaptation of current forecasting technologies…
Person: Rappold
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke impact, smoke exposure, health impacts, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter
Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a large-eddy simulation (LES) code for low-speed flows, with an emphasis on smoke and heat transport from fires. Smokeview (SMV) is a visualization program used to display the output of FDS and CFAST simulations.
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: LES - Large Eddy Simulation, heat transport, FDS - Fire Dynamics Simulator, Smokeview
From the summary ... ' In summary, the results of these large scale fire tests, conducted under marginal burning conditions, were negative; but, paradoxically, I find this very heartening, for we can now be much more confident in our predictions of fire behavior to be expected…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, chemistry, eucalyptus, fire intensity, fire whirls, flammability, fuel loading, ignition, litter, needles, nuclear winter, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, rate of spread, surface fires, temperature, topography, tropical forests, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text ... 'Several papers on concentrated fire vortices were presented at the 1967 Mass Fire Research Symposium in Washington, and the resulting discussion of dynamical effects on large fires due to organized vorticity ranged from the importance of rotation in fire…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): California, Great Basin, International
Keywords: chaparral, conservation, Europe, fire case histories, fire management, fire whirls, Germany, mountains, physics, southern California, storms, vortices, Washington, wind
Although burning was originally intended as a control measure for blind seed disease in perennial ryegrass, growers soon discovered the benefits of open field burning for other grass seed crops.
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, cropland fires, disturbance, fertilizers, field experimental fires, grass fires, grasses, Lolium, Oregon, perennial plants, plant diseases, plant growth, season of fire, seasonal activities, seed production, seedlings
'During the past year, burning treatments on the Miller Creek Block were essentially completed. Preparations for moving to Newman Ridge, on the St. Regis District, this spring are well underway. Current plans call for 16 instrumented fires on Newman Ridge during 1969 to conclude…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Economics
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa, air quality, coniferous forests, duff, fine fuels, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, Idaho, logging, Montana, Pseudotsuga menziesii, roots, seedlings, slash, soil moisture, soil temperature, Tsuga heterophylla, US Forest Service, weather observations, wildlife
Current research on the effects of slash burning on air quality is concerned with the reduction or dispersal of gaseous emissions and particulates. Guidelines for accomplishing these goals are being developed. The use of other disposal methods is also under study, particularly…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, combustion, fire management, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, histories, logging, mountains, Oregon, particulates, pollution, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, Washington, wildfires, wind
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Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, disturbance, droughts, fire equipment, fire suppression, fishes, forest management, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, logging, multiple resource management, Picea glauca, post fire recovery, recreation, reproduction, rural communities, season of fire, smoke effects, soil erosion, watershed management, wildfires, wildlife management
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Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Adenostoma fasciculatum, air quality, artificial regeneration, brush, chaparral, cover, field experimental fires, fire management, forage, grasslands, habitat conversion, herbaceous vegetation, land management, livestock, mosaic, natural resource legislation, Odocoileus, population density, post fire recovery, range management, season of fire, shrubs, site treatments, soil erosion, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food habits, wildlife management
A combined theoretical and experimental study has been performed of the behaviour of firebrands in a turbulent, swirling natural convection plume. For the theoretical treatment, firebrands were idealized as spheres of constant density, the burning rate a constant for each type…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: firebrand, plume, laboratory experiments
Regional air quality simulations were performed to evaluate the contributions of wildland fires to inter-annual variability of black carbon (BC) concentrations and to assess the contributions of wildfires vs. prescribed fires to BC concentrations and deposition rates to glacier…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: black carbon, air quality
Fires are a major source of gaseous and particulate pollutant, including black carbon (BC). In combination with organic carbon (OC), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), BC from fire emissions causes air quality degradation. BC is also increasingly…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Project
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: black carbon, air quality
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar conducted in partnership with the NWCG Smoke Committee, NC State University, the Desert Research Institute, the National Weather Service, and Montgomery Community College. The webinar features researcher Matthew Fearon of the Desert Research…
Person: Fearon, Heffernan
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: mixing height, atmosphere, atmospheric dynamics
The use of fire as a land management tool is well recognized for its ecological benefits in many natural systems. To continue to use fire while complying with air quality regulations, land managers are often tasked with modeling emissions from fire during the planning process.…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, LANDFIRE, air quality, land management, fuel loading, FLM - Fuel Loading Model, Idaho, duff, fire management, fuel management, land management, coniferous forests