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Fire behavior video from the 2017 Pier Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, activity fuels, prescribed burn, 2017 Pier Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2017 Pier Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, activity fuels, prescribed burn, 2017 Pier Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2017 Pier Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, activity fuels, prescribed burn, 2017 Pier Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2017 Pier Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, light wind, low rate of spread, surface fire, high severity fire, low severity fire, unmanaged fuels, 2017 Pier Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2017 Pier Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, light wind, low rate of spread, surface fire, high severity fire, low severity fire, unmanaged fuels, 2017 Pier Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2017 Pier Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, light wind, low rate of spread, surface fire, high severity fire, low severity fire, unmanaged fuels, 2017 Pier Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2017 Pier Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, passive crown fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2017 Pier Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2017 Pier Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, passive crown fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2017 Pier Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2017 Pier Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, passive crown fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2017 Pier Fire
This document presents the study plan for the Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE). FASMEE is a large-scale interagency effort to (1) identify the critical measurements necessary to improve operational wildland fire and smoke prediction systems, (2) collect…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, FASMEE - Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, plume dynamics, air quality, fire energy
On January 4, 2014, during the summer period in South America, an intense forest and dry pasture wildfire occurred nearby the city of Santiago de Chile. On that day the biomass-burning plume was transported by low-intensity winds towards the metropolitan area of Santiago and…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Chile, biomass burning, air quality, fire plumes, South America, WRF-Chem, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, plume rise, atmospheric modeling
We have investigated the variability of smoke aerosol absorbing ability with variations in the content of brown carbon (BrC) and black carbon (BC). Using monitoring data on radiative characteristics of smoke aerosol at AERONET stations and the spatial distribution of aerosol…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke aerosols, brown carbon, black carbon, absorption spectra, aerospace monitoring, aerosol radiative forcing, boreal forest, Russia, Canada
From the Spring 2017 AFSC Remote Sensing Workshop: Opportunities to Apply Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science.
Person: Jenkins, Butteri, Miller, Slaughter, Ellicott, Heinrichs, Waigl
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: fire intensity, fire perimeter, fire management, plumes
From the Spring 2017 AFSC Remote Sensing Workshop: Opportunities to Apply Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science.
Person: Veraverbeke
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: remote sensing, boreal fire, carbon emissions, burn severity, fire severity, lightning, climate change
From the Spring 2017 AFSC Remote Sensing Workshop: Opportunities to Apply Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science.
Person: Oliva
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Northwest, International
Keywords: remote sensing, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, boreal forest, area burned, NIROPS - National Infrared Operations, Canada
From the Spring 2017 AFSC Remote Sensing Workshop: Opportunities to Apply Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science.
Person: French
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel characteristics, remote sensing, fuel loading, FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, air quality, emissions modeling
In this study we investigate the use of ΔPM2.5/ΔCO and ΔNOy/ΔCO normalized enhancement ratios (NERs) in identifying wildfire (WF) smoke events in urban areas. Nine urban ambient monitoring sites with adequate CO, PM2.5, and/or NOy measurements were selected for this study. We…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: wildfires, NER - normalized enhancement ratio, air quality, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, urban areas, CO - carbon monoxide, NO - nitrogen oxide, emission ratio
We looked at a Siberian biomass burning (BB) event on Spring 2015 that was observed at Mt. Bachelor Observatory (MBO; 2.8 km a.s.l) and by satellite instruments (MODIS and CALIPSO), and intercepted by the NOAA WP-3D research aircraft during the Shale Oil and Natural Gas Nexus (…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northwest, International
Keywords: O3 - ozone, plumes, wildfire, Mt. Bachelor, reactive nitrogen, aerosol, Siberia, biomass burning, air quality
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, air quality, Australia, biomass, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemistry, digital data collection, distribution, droughts, energy, eucalyptus, fire control, fire frequency, fire scar analysis, fuel types, Georgia, grasslands, greenhouse gases, land management, mosaic, Northern Territory of Australia, nutrients, particulates, plant growth, precipitation, radiation, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, statistical analysis, understory vegetation, biomass burning, NOAA-AVHRR (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer), fire mosaic, fire scar, Northern Territory of Australia, gaseous emissions, anthropogenic effects
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Social Science
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: bacteria, bark, carbon dioxide, chemistry, combustion, deciduous forests, fire growth, fire retardants, fire suppression, flammability, forest management, fuel arrangement, fuel inventory, fuel loading, fuel management, fungi, Georgia, heat, ignition, leaves, litter, logging, microorganisms, moisture, national forests, needles, Oregon, organic matter, private lands, public information, remote sensing, slash, soil moisture, soil organic matter, spontaneous combustion, temperature, wood, woody fuels, spontaneous ignition, forest residue, wood chips, slash, CHIP PILE, SAWDUST
A study of smoke exposure at prescribed fires was done by the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station and Radian Corporation between 1991 and 1994. This study was done to assess exposure to smoke among firefighters at prescribed fires in the Pacific Northwest.…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, smoke exposure
Major wildfires have affected millions of acres of forest lands in the continental United States during recent years. Often, these wildfires burn through intensively managed, timber producing areas. This study presents a comparison of fuel consumption, soil fire severity, and…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: fuel consumption, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, Oregon, smoke production, soil fire severity, slash treatment, broadcast burning, clearcut, CONSUME, logging slash, Willamette National Forest, downed woody fuels, duff, Shady Beach Fire, fuel treatments, wildfire effects, emission production, soil fire severity
A smoke emissions production model (EPM) was developed by the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station about 10 years ago. Since then, the model has been coded into a computer module and integrated into a variety of other computer programs. The module, EPM,…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: broadcast burning, EPM - Emissions Production Model, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, smoke dispersion, smoke models, smoldering phase
Black carbon (BC) concentrations observed in 22 snowpits sampled in the northwest sector of the Greenland ice sheet in April 2014 have allowed us to identify a strong and widespread BC aerosol deposition event, which was dated to have accumulated in the pits from two snow storms…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: Canada, Greenland, black carbon, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, WRF-Chem, deposition, wildfires
In the western U.S., smoke from wild and prescribed fires can severely degrade air quality. Due to changes in climate and land management, wildfires have increased in frequency and severity, and this trend is expected to continue. Consequently, wildfires are expected to become…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Washington, wildfires, exposure, satellites, smoke exposure, air pollution, regression models, PM2.5, WRF-Chem