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A pair of three-day workshops were held in 2008 and 2009, designed for fire managers responsible for communicating and negotiating with state and local air quality regulators. The workshops were organized by the NWCG Smoke Committee, coordinated by the University of Idaho, and…
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Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality regulations, smoke management, collaboration
An issue of great concern on federal lands is wildland fires, which have steadily increased in frequency and strength over the past few decades as a possible consequence of climate change. Modeling wildfires under an evolving climate is challenging due to disparate spatial and…
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Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fuel loads, fire activity, NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards
Emissions of aerosols and gases from fires have been shown to adversely affect US air quality at local to regional scales as well as downwind regions far away from the source. Fire activity is strongly related to weather and climate. Recent observations have shown an upward…
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Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
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: aerosols, air quality, PM2.5 emissions, ozone, PM - particulate matter, fire frequency, fire magnitude
This conference will specifically address wildland fire in the Eastern US, a topic of cruicial interest to the USDA, Forest Service and Department of Interior fire managers. Although the conference will focus on the East, the scientific and technology topics have national and…
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Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models, Social Science
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: DSS - decision support system, conferences, remote sensing, climate change, air quality
In the Spring of 2016, the Washington State Legislature passed House Bill 2928, the Forest Resiliency Burning Pilot project. This Pilot will examine the role of prescribed burning in creating healthier, more resilient forests. Prescribed burning, or controlled burning, is a time…
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Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Washington, fuel reduction, smoke forecasting, forest resilience, low intensity burns, Washington DNR Smoke Management Plan, multi-day burns, air quality, burn plans
This project involves a review of relevant literature and preparation of a review paper to be submitted to a prominent journal. Lead Author (Anping Chen) will select and work with a team of respected scientists with expertise in fire emissions, national emissions inventories,…
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Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: radiative forcing, literature review
This project will develop and prioritize the observations needed to perform this task, bring teams of modelers and observational specialists in various disciplines on board under separate funding, and coordinate these teams to create and validate a detailed study plan, including…
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Year: 2020
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FASMEE - Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, project management
Mega-fire events, in which large high-intensity fires propagate over extended periods, can cause both immense damage to the local environment and catastrophic air quality impacts to cities and towns downwind. The extensive 2010 fires in western Russia are only the most recent…
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Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, megafires
Mega-fires can adversely impact air quality in the United States and the impact is likely to become more severe in the future due to the possibly more frequent and intense mega-fires in response to the projected climate change. This study investigates mega-fires and their air…
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Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, climate change, megafires
Although representing only a small mass fraction of the emissions from biomass burning, black carbon (BC) exerts a strong influence on climate. As a component of the atmospheric aerosol, BC absorbs visible light and warms the adjacent air, potentially altering the vertical…
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Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: black carbon, biomass burning, aerosol
The DEASCO3 project will produce analytical results and a dynamic and accessible technical tool which enables Federal Land Managers (FLM) to participate more fully in ozone air quality planning efforts. We will turn complex technical analyses of a series of well-chosen historic…
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Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, ozone
BlueSky, a National Fire Plan product, provides real-time predictions of surface smoke concentrations from prescribed fire, wildfire, and agricultural burn activities to aid land managers in burn/no-burn decisions. Currently operational in the Pacific Northwest, BlueSky is a…
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Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards, PM - particulate matter, smoke concentration, BlueSky Modeling Framework
The Ventilation Climate Information System (VCIS) was completed with Joint Fire Science Program support in 2000 under a 1998-2000 project called, Assessing Values of Air Quality and Visibility at Risk from Wildiand Fires. It is a twice-daily, 30- year database of surface wind,…
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Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, risk assessment, VCIS - Ventilation Climate Information System, mixing height, surface wind, visibility, ventilation
This project reviews the essential ingredients of a modeling system for projecting smoke consequences in a rapidly warming climate that is expected to change wildfire regimes significantly. We present relevant details of each component of the system, offer suggestions for the…
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Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: ecosystem change, IPCC scenarios
Presenting state-of-science information and discussion of broadly defined air pollution and forest fire issues. Among others, the following topics will be discussed: effects of forest fires on air quality in the remote and urban-wildland interface forests; effects of forest…
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Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, air pollution, symposium
This project will address the need for a collaborative architecture for scientific modeling that allows various scientific models to easily interact. By designing such a system to be modular as well, advantages derived from separating decision support user interfaces from…
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Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: BlueSky Modeling Framework, collaboration, decision support, model coupling
While acknowledging the current usefulness of the fire management tools available on the Oklahoma Mesonet, the state's automated weather monitoring system, the USDA Forest Service (Problem Statement) describes a critical need to incorporate a forecast component into the fire…
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Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire danger, forecasting, Oklahoma, DSS - decision support system, OK-FIRE
Predicting the dispersion of smoke from low-intensity fires is particularly challenging because it is highly sensitive to near-surface meteorological conditions, local topography, vegetation, and atmospheric turbulence within and above vegetation layers. Existing integrated…
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Year:
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: vegetation, smoke dispersion, low-intensity fire, atmospheric dispersion
Fuel consumption is one of the most critical variables in estimating smoke production for smoke management planning in the eastern United States. Although there are fuel consumption equations contained within the national fuel consumption and emissions production tools Consume 3…
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Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, fuel loading, Consume 3.0, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, smoke management, model validation, smoke production, fuel consumption, SEMIP - Smoke and Emissions Model Intercomparison Project
The ventilation climate information system (VCIS) allows users to assess risks to values of air quality and visibility from historical patterns of ventilation conditions. It is available through an interactive, Internet map server that allows maps of ventilation potential to be…
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Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: VCIS - Ventilation Climate Information System
These symposia are designed to share experiences and new or changing techniques and technologies in weather and climate affecting fire, fuels, and smoke. The symposia began as a collaboration between the Society of American Foresters and the American Meteorological Society over…
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Year:
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Outreach, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire, conferences, symposia
The Rare Event Risk Assessment Process (RERAP) helps calculate the information needed to manage prescribed fires, wildland fire use fires, and wildland fires. RERAP allows a user to dynamically calculate the risk of undesired fire movement, including how to: 1) identify high and…
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Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire spread, historical weather data, RERAP - Rare Event Risk Assessment Process, risk analysis, fire-stopping events
Seven regional workshops were conducted across the country to teach land managers enough about three FERA tools so that they can go out and teach others. These workshops were three days each and attended by approximately 10-15 managers. A teaching cadre of 5 demonstrated in the…
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Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: CONSUME, fire management, FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, Natural Fuels Photo Series, Consume 3.0, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, fuels planning, workshops
This conference was held in conjunction with the Fifth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, November 16-20, 2003 in Orlando, Florida. Land management agencies and organizations and private landholders are increasingly faced with the complex issues of wildland fire, such as…
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Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, wildland fire, conferences
FROSTFIRE was a landscape-scale prescribed research burn in the boreal forest of interior Alaska that occurred July 8-15, 1999. Within the 2200-acre perimeter, fire mimicked natural conditions by burning 900 acres of mostly black spruce, leaving the hardwoods standing. Boreal…
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Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: fire research, Frostfire, permafrost, boreal forest fires