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Impact of the New South Wales fires during October 2013 on regional air quality in eastern Australia
Smoke plumes from fires contain atmospheric pollutants that can be transported to populated areas and effect regional air quality. In this paper, the characteristics and impact of the fire plumes from a major fire event that occurred in October 2013 (17-26) in the New South…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Hazard and Risk, Fire Effects, Fire Behavior
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire case histories, smoke effects, wildfires, Australia, New South Wales, air quality, pollution, fire management, forest management, smoke management, air quality, bushfires, Regional Model, Sydney Region, injection height, Ftir Spectrometer, emission factors, Transform Infrared-Spectroscopy, biomass burning emissions, trace gases, particulate matter, vegetation fires, pollution, wildfires, aerosols, forest
Prescribed burnings are conducted in Queensland each year from August until November aiming to decrease the impact of bushfire hazards and maintain the health of vegetation. This study reports chemical characteristics of the ambient aerosol, with a focus on source apportionment…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, Australia, Queensland, aerosols, air quality, hydrocarbons, fire management, forest management, air quality, biomass burning, Organic Aerosol, Aerosol Mass Spectrometry, source apportionment, positive matrix factorization, Submicron Organic Aerosols, biomass burning emissions, Factor-Analytic Models, Mass-Spectrometer Data, source apportionment, Multilinear Engine, Urban Air, Secondary, components
Low intensity prescribed fire is widely practiced in seasonally dry forests in many countries to reduce fuel loads and the risk of uncontrollable wildfires. Associated with low intensity fire is the heating and alteration of organic matter of the litter and surface soil to…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, low intensity burns, wildfires, Australia, Victoria, C - carbon, charcoal, litter, SOM - soil organic matter, understory vegetation, fire management, forest management, eucalyptus, sclerophyll forests, PyC - pyrogenic carbon, SOC - soil organic carbon, wildfire, temperate deciduous forest, slash-and-burn, black carbon, organic matter, pine forests, N Storage, N - nitrogen, ecosystems
Smoke-haze episodes, caused by uncontrolled peat and forest fires, occur almost every year in the South-East Asian region with increased concentrations of PM2.5 (airborne particulate matter (PM) with diameter < 2.5 mm). Particulate-bound trace elements (TrElems), especially…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: Asia, Singapore, aerosols, air quality, health factors, fire management, smoke management, Metal Bioaccessibility, Simulated Lung Fluids, smoke haze, health risk assessment, aerosols
Landscape fires can produce large quantities of smoke that degrade air quality in both remote and urban communities. Smoke from these fires is a complex mixture of fine particulate matter and gases, exposure to which is associated with increased respiratory and cardiovascular…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, Canada, Landscape Fire Smoke, wildfire smoke, portable air cleaners, HEPA filter - high effieciency particulate air filter, Intervention, particulate matter, wildfire smoke, cardiovascular health, Indoor Particles, forest fire, Intervention, impacts, Filtration, pollution, exposure
The 2011 Richardson wildland mega-fire in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) in northern Alberta, Canada had large effects on air quality. At a receptor site in the center of the AOSR ambient PM2.5, O3, NO, NO2, SO2, NH3, HONO, HNO3, NH4+ and NO3- were measured during the…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Canada, Alberta, Richardson Fire, smoke effects, fine particulate matter, Reactive Nitrogenous Species, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, sulfate, ozone, Athabasca Oil Sands, Passive Sampling System, Ambient Nitric-Acid, Nitrous-Acid, tropospheric ozone, climate change, trace gases, atmospheric deposition, chemical composition, Ammonia Emissions
Introduction: Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) emissions from vegetation fires can be transported over long distances and may cause significant air pollution episodes far from the fires. However, epidemiological evidence on health effects of vegetation-fire originated air…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Occurrence, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, smoke effects, wildfires, Europe, Finland, air quality, health factors, mortality, particulates, pollution, vegetation surveys, fire management, smoke management, vegetation fire, air pollution, particulate matter, mortality, hospital admissions
There is limited research on the exposure of wildland firefighters to smoke because of the operational obstacles when monitoring air pollutants in the field. In this work, a grid of portable sensors was used to measure PM2.5 and CO concentrations in the near-source region during…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: experimental fires, firefighting personnel, fuel loading, fuel moisture, smoke effects, wildfires, Europe, Portugal, air quality, fire management, fuel management, smoke management, shrublands, Fire Experiments, smoke emissions, smoke plume, firefighter exposure, Portable Sensor
In September-October 2015, ElNino and positive Indian Ocean Dipole conditions set the stage for massive fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), leading to persistently hazardous levels of smoke pollution across much of Equatorial Asia. Here we quantify the emission…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire size, wildfires, Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, air quality, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, health factors, remote sensing, fire management, land use, smoke management, Land Use Change Fires, smoke exposure, GEOS-Chem Adjoint
This study monthly combustion tests were conducted on pine green leaves during June 2008 similar to May 2012 (4 years) for combustion pattern analysis of forest fires according to climate change in Korea. As result of research, fuel humidity of 75 similar to 178% was shown for 4…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire identification, fire pattern, wildfire research, climate change, pine tree, combustion
During July 2002, forest fires in Quebec, Canada, blanketed the US East Coast with a plume of wood smoke. This 'natural experiment' exposed large populations in northeastern US cities to significantly elevated concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), providing a unique…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Eastern, International
Keywords: fire case histories, Massachusetts, New York, Quebec, air quality, mortality, particulates, pollution, fire management, smoke management, air pollution, wildfires, fine particulate matter, PM2.5, mortality, natural experiment, Pm Source Apportionment, Ambient Air-Quality, risk assessment, smoke plumes, health, pollution, death, wildfire
Subtitle: Indonesian peatlands need to be protected and restored to prevent fires and the health, environmental and economic impact that they have on the wider region. © Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire size, wildfires, Asia, Indonesia, air quality, health factors, fire management, smoke management, peatlands, El-Nino, Indonesia, forests
Wildfire emissions in the boreal forests yield an important contribution to the chemical budget of the troposphere. To assess the contribution of wildfire to the emissions of atmospheric trace species in the Great Xing’an Mountains (GXM), which is also the most severe fire-prone…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, satellite, China, burned area, boreal forests, fire activity, fire scars, fire size, aerosols, air quality, particulates, remote sensing, fire management, forest management
Prescribed burning is used to reduce the occurrence, extent and severity of uncontrolled fires in many flammable landscapes. However, epidemiologic evidence of the human health impacts of landscape fire smoke emissions is shaping fire management practice through increasingly…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, human health, health effects, wildfires, health impacts, air quality, fire regimes, fuel loading, fire management
Background: Wildfire activity is predicted to increase in many parts of the world due to changes in temperature and precipitation patterns from global climate change. Wildfire smoke contains numerous hazardous air pollutants and many studies have documented population health…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: health impacts, air pollutants, literature review, respiratory illness, wildfires, smoke effects, air quality, health factors, hydrocarbons, ozone, particulates, pollution, fire management, smoke management
Wildfires are an important component of terrestrial ecosystem ecology but also a major natural hazard to societies, and their frequency and spatial distribution must be better understood. At a given location, risk from wildfire is associated with the annual fraction of burned…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: future fire activity, biogeochemistry, climate change impact analysis, ecological modeling, atmospheric carbon dioxide, CO2 - carbon dioxide, area burned, fire models, fire size, wildfires, climate change, population density, fire management, fire hazard
The extent of fires, their periodicity and their impact on terrestrial communities have been a major concern in the last century. Wildfires play an important role in shaping landscapes and as a source of CO2 and particulate matter, contributing to the green house effect and to…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Spain, BI - Bayesian inference, spatial modeling, wildfires, spatiotemporal marked point pattern, PM - particulate matter, CO2 - carbon dioxide, fire size