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Research to quantify fuel consumption and flammability in shrub-dominated ecosystems has received little attention despite the widespread occurrence of fire-influenced, shrub-dominated landscapes across the arid lands of the western United States. While some research has…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: CONSUME, fire management, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, land management planning, fuel flammability, fuel consumption, shrub dominated ecosystems
This study uses panel data from a mail survey administered to the same individuals in 1996 and 2000 to measure change in public attitudes toward fire management programs on federal lands in eastern Oregon and Washington. Findings were generally similar between 1996 and 2000, but…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: survey, fire management, public opinion, thinning, education, fire hazard reduction, fire management planning, fuel loading, mountains, Oregon, plant diseases, public information, rural communities, smoke effects, smoke management, US Forest Service, Washington
The NWCG Wildland and Prescribed Fire Qualifications System is a "performance-based" qualifications system. In this system, the primary criterion for qualification is individual performance as observed by an evaluator using approved standards. This system differs from previous…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: training, NWCG - National Wildfire Coordinating Group, smoke management
The primary objective of this work is to assess the local, regional, and national risks to air quality and visibility from wildland fire. This will be done by generating and analyzing statistics of daily and nightly variability of surface wind, mixing height, and dispersion…
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Year: 2003
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, visibility, dispersion
Lists the conference proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management (Nov. 11-16, 2003 in Orlando, Florida).
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Year: 2003
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: proceedings
Fires can be catastrophic, but only when the weather permits. Predicting the weather more than a few hours into the future with accuracy, precision and reliability is an on-going challenge to researchers. Accurate and precise forecasting for more than a few hours into the future…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: forecasting, FCAMMS - Fire Consortia for Advanced Modeling of Meteorology and Smoke, air quality, climatology, computer program, distribution, ecology, education, fire control, fire danger rating, fire management, firefighting personnel, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, National Fire Plan, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, US Forest Service, weather observations, wilderness fire management
To assess values of air quality and visibility at risk from wildland fire in the United States, we generated a 40-year database that includes twice daily values of wind, mixing height, and a ventilation index that is the product of windspeed and mixing height. The database…
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Year: 2003
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: air quality, VCIS - Ventilation Climate Information System, database, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, mixing height, ventilation index, visibility, wildland fires, wind direction, windspeed
The document describes the Smoke Impact Spreadsheet (SIS) model, which is a screening-level modeling system for calculating PM2.5 emissions and airborne concentrations downwind of natural or managed wildland fires.
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: CONSUME, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, CALPUFF, PM2.5 emissions, PM2.5 airborne concentrations
FOFEM 5.0 (First Order Fire Effects Model) is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. FOFEM predicts tree mortality from surface fire, based on flame length or scorch height,…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, fuel consumption, tree mortality, wildland fire, soil heating, smoke production
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Year: 2003
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: MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, satellite
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, forecasting, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
Smoke from wildland fires is one of the sources of atmospheric anthropogenic aerosols. it can dramatically affect regional and global radiative balance. Ross et al. (1998) estimated a direct radiative forcing of nearly -20 Wm-2 for the 1995 Amazonian smoke season (August and…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Amazon, Brazil, aerosols, air quality, biomass, climatology, convection, ecology, elevation, fire management, heat, humidity, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, light, precipitation, radiation, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, water, wind, wildfires
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
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Plumes from wildfires and prescribed fires represent a critical aspect of smoke management and air quality assessment, and as such it is important to understand the structure and dynamics of these plumes, both with respect to a basic understanding of the phenomena and with…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire plumes, climatology, ecology, evolution, fire intensity, fire management, heat, heat effects, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, surface fires, vortices, wind
The Southern High-Resolution Modeling Consortium (SHRMC) is one of five regional Fire Consortia for Advanced Modeling of Meteorology and Smoke (FCAMMS) consortia established as part of the National Fire Plan. FCAMMS involves research and development activities collaborating…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
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Forest and agricultural burning release chemical compounds and particulate matter into the atmosphere. Although most of this material contributes to visibility reductions through haze and provides chemical constituents available for reactions with other atmospheric pollutants,…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: drift smoke, ground fog, smoke behavior
The increasing incidence, extent and severity of uncontrolled burning globally, together with its many adverse consequences, has brought fire into the international environmental policy arena, with growing calls for international action leading to greater control of burning,…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, age classes, air quality, Asia, Australia, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, crown fires, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, fragmentation, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, GIS, grasslands, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, land use, light, Mongolia, peatlands, pollutionpublic information, rainforests, rate of spread, remote sensing, Russia, savannas, season of fire, smoke effects, South America, succession, tropical forests, vegetation surveys, wildfires
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: bacteria, boreal forests, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, chemistry, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire regimes, fungi, climate change, heat effects, microorganisms, Picea mariana, soils, statistical analysis, temperature
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor, launched on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Terra satellite at the end of 1999, was designed with 36 spectral channels for a wide array of land, ocean, and atmospheric investigations. MODIS has a…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
We adopt a working definition of residual smoldering combustion (RSC) as biomass combustion that produces emissions that are not lofted by strong fire-induced convection. RSC emissions can be produced for up to several weeks after the passage of a flame front and they are mostly…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: particles, smoldering combustion, trace gas emissions, biomass burning