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With evidence of increasing wildfire risks in wildland-urban interface zones in the U.S. West and elsewhere, understanding intended evacuation behavior is a growing issue for community planners. This research investigates intended evacuation behavior due to wildfire risks, using…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: distribution, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (humans), fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, Mexico, national forests, New Mexico, population density, public information, statistical analysis, wildfires, evacuation, wildfire
Inventories of methyl halide emissions from domestic burning of biomass in Africa, from 1950 to the present day and projected to 2030, have been constructed. By combining emission factors from Andreae and Merlet [2001. Emission of trace gases and aerosols from biomass burning.…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, biomass burning, charcoal, chemical compounds, fire management, fuel management, gases, Africa, biofuel, domestic biomass burning, emission factor, methyl halide
This two-part series investigates the emission and transport of biomass burning aerosol (or particulate matter) across the Top End of the Northern Territory or Australia. In Part I, Meyer et al. [2008. Biomass burning emissions over northern Australia constrained by aerosol…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Australia, biomass, biomass burning, brush fires, distribution, fire management, fire scar analysis, fuel loading, mountainous terrain, Northern Territory of Australia, particulates, pollution, radiation, remote sensing, statistical analysis, wind, bushfire emissions, TAPM, aerosol optical depths, Modis data, air quality modelling, air quality in northern territory, atmospheric radiative transfer, radiative forcing efficiency
To evaluate the effect of increasing forest disturbances on greenhouse gas budgets in a taiga forest in eastern Siberia, CO2, CH4 and N2O fluxes from the soils were measured during the growing season in intact, burnt and clear-felled larch forests (4-5 years after the…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: age classes, air quality, air temperature, Asia, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, clearcutting, deciduous forests, decomposition, disturbance, fire frequency, forest management, Larix, moisture, nutrition, organic matter, plant nutrition, population density, precipitation, roots, Russia, Siberia, size classes, soil management, soil moisture, soil nutrients, soil organic matter, soil temperature, soils, statistical analysis, taiga, temperature, tundra, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, wildfires, clear-felling, greenhouse gas flux, permafrost, Siberian Taiga, wild fire
The Amazon is being rapidly transformed by fire. Logging and forest fragmentation sharply elevate fire incidence by increasing forest desiccation and fuel loads, and forests that have experienced a low-intensity surface fire are vulnerable to far more catastrophic fires.…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Amazon, Brazil, catastrophic fires, deforestation, droughts, ENSO, evapotranspiration, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, flammability, forest edges, forest fragmentation, forest management, fragmentation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, climate change, human caused fires, land use, leaves, litter, logging, low intensity burns, overstory, precipitation, rainforests, rate of spread, remote sensing, South America, succession, surface fires, tropical forests, tropical regions, wildfires, woody fuels
In this study, we used fire count datasets derived from Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) satellite to characterize spatial patterns in fire occurrences across highly diverse geographical, vegetation and topographic gradients in the Indian region. For characterizing the…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, agriculture, air quality, Asia, biomass burning, cropland fires, deciduous forests, ecosystem dynamics, elevation, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel moisture, GIS, grasslands, ignition, India, montane forests, particulates, precipitation, rate of spread, remote sensing, savannas, slash, slash and burn, statistical analysis, tropical forests, vegetation surveys, wildfires, fires, spatial patterns, point pattern analysis, vegetation fires, India
In the Mediterranean basin, fires are a major concern for forest and shrubland ecosystems. We studied flammability, its seasonality and its relationship with leaf moisture and volatile terpene content and emission in the dominant species of a Mediterranean shrubland and forest…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Mediterranean, Pinus halepensis, Quercus ilex, Arbutus unedo, Cistus albidus, emission and content of volatile compounds, Erica multiflora, Globularia alypum, Phillyrea latifolia, Pistacia lentiscus, Rosmarinus officinalis
As part of the Tropical Forest and Fire Emissions Experiment (TROFFEE), tropical forest fuels were burned in a large, biomass-fire simulation facility and the smoke was characterized with open-path Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), proton-transfer reaction mass…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: Amazon, Brazil, biomass burning, emission factors, TROFFEE - Tropical Forest and Fire Emissions Experiment
In Portugal, during summer 2003, unusually large forested areas (>300,000 ha) were destroyed by fire, emitting pollutants to the atmosphere. During this period, aerosol samples were collected in the Aveiro region, and analysed for total mass and a set of inorganic and organic…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, biomass burning, C - carbon, chemical compounds, distribution, Europe, fire management, organic matter, particulates, pollution, Portugal, K - potassium, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires, wood, atmospheric aerosols, Portugal, forest fires, levoglucosan, K - potassium, monosugars, polyols, diacids
Anthropogenic understory fires affect large areas of tropical forest, particularly during severe droughts. Yet, the mechanisms that control tropical forests' susceptibility to fire remain ambiguous. We tested the widely accepted hypothesis that Amazon forest fires increase…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Amazon, Brazil, C - carbon, diameter classes, droughts, experimental fires, fine fuels, fire frequency, fire management, flammability, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, human caused fires, ignition, leaves, liana, litter, microclimate, moisture, mortality, overstory, population density, rate of spread, savannas, scrub, soil moisture, South America, succession, surface fuels, tropical forests, understory vegetation, wildfires, woody fuels, Brazilian Amazon, carbon emissions, feedbacks, forest-savanna transitions, large-scale experimental burns, Mato Grosso transitional forests, tropical forests, tropical wildfires
To understand how boreal forest carbon (C) dynamics might respond to anticipated climatic changes, we must consider two important processes. First, projected climatic changes are expected to increase the frequency of fire and other natural disturbances that would change the…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: age classes, air quality, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, coniferous forests, decomposition, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, forest management, climate change, organic matter, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, plant growth, statistical analysis, wildfires, Canada, CBM-CFS3 - Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector, global change
Some model experiments predict a large-scale substitution of Amazon forest by savannah-like vegetation by the end of the twenty-first century. Expanding global demands for biofuels and grains, positive feedbacks in the Amazon forest fire regime and drought may drive a faster…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Economics, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Amazon, Brazil, C - carbon, deforestation, droughts, ENSO, fire control, fire regimes, forest fragmentation, forest management, climate change, land use, logging, mortality, South America, temperature, tropical forests, wildfires, deforestation, biofuel, feedbacks, globalization, global warming
Emissions of aerosol from biomass burning in northern Australia are globally significant, yet existing estimates of their magnitude are essentially unconstrained by observation. This two-part series (see Part II by Luhar et al. [2008. Biomass burning emissions over northern…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Australia, biomass, biomass burning, brush fires, C - carbon, distribution, fire danger rating, fire management, fire scar analysis, fuel loading, Northern Territory of Australia, radiation, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, spot fires, statistical analysis, tropical regions, western Australia, bushfire emissions, fire scars, hotspots, TAPM, Modis data, aerosol loading, air quality in northern territory, Top End
Fire-driven deforestation is the major source of carbon emissions from Amazonia. Recent expansion of mechanized agriculture in forested regions of Amazonia has increased the average size of deforested areas, but related changes in fire dynamics remain poorly characterized. We…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: combustion, carbon emissions, deforestation, fire activity, land use change, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, Amazon, Brazil, agricultural development, soybeans, agriculture, Bolivia, C - carbon, cerrado, croplands, fire frequency, fire management, land use, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, wildfires, woody fuels