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Biomass combustion plays an important role in the earth's biogeochemical cycling. The monitoring of wildfires and their associated variables at global scales is feasible and can lead to predictions of the influence of combustion on biogeochemical cycling and tropospheric…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: thermal analysis, wildfires, biogeochemical cycles, biomass burning, remote sensing, AVHRR - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
Soil was exposed to red phosphorous/butyl rubber (RP/BR) aerosols at various relative humidities in a recirculating environmental wind tunnel. Soil microbial and enzymatic activities were measured immediately after exposure and periodically thereafter for 56 days. The…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, chemistry, cropland fires, heat effects, humidity, microorganisms, nutrient cycling, pH, pollution, post fire recovery, smoke effects, soil organisms, soils, statistical analysis, toxicity, wildfires, wind
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: air quality, fuel loading, Georgia, New England, pine forests, smoke management, Vaccinium, Vermont, wildfires
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: air quality, ash, distribution, experimental areas, field experimental fires, ground cover, Kansas, litter, Peromyscus maniculatus, population density, post fire recovery, prairies, sampling, season of fire, small mammals, smoke effects, statistical analysis, tallgrass prairies, trapping, wilderness areas, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, clearcutting, fire management, forest management, herbicides, histories, logging, multiple resource management, Oregon, site treatments, slash, smoke management
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Appalachian Mountains, balds, environmental impact statements, fire hazard reduction, fire management, hardwood forests, herbicides, mountains, multiple resource management, national forests, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, site treatments, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Apalachicola Bluffs, Calamintha dentata, Carex baltzellii, Croomia pauciflora, Florida, fungi, habitat conversion, Magnolia ashei, mast, Matelea, north Florida, pine, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, plant diseases, plant growth, reproduction, sandhills, seedlings, species diversity (plants), Taxus floridana, threatened and endangered species (plants), Torreya taxifolia, vegetation surveys
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Economics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, Alabama, burning intervals, coastal plain, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire growth, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, Florida, fuel appraisal, fuel management, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, national forests, North Carolina, Piedmont, rate of spread, season of fire, smoke management, South Carolina, Texas, wildfires
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: broadcast burning, duff, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, heat effects, humidity, litter, moisture, mopping up, multiple resource management, precipitation, smoke behavior, smoke effects, soil temperature, statistical analysis, temperature, weather observations, woody plants
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass, Chersina angulata, distribution, fire adaptations (animals), fire frequency, fire injuries (animals), flammability, fynbos, grass fires, grasses, grasslands, ground cover, heat effects, light, mortality, pioneer species, population density, post fire recovery, predators, rangeland fires, raptors, reptiles, South Africa, statistical analysis, succession, temperature, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, droughts, Florida, forest management, Georgia, land use, North Carolina, ozone, pine, plant growth, South Carolina, vegetation surveys, Virginia
(1)The behaviour of the August 1936 Galatea fire in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains was reconstructed with respect to the rate of spread, frontal-fire intensity and fuel consumption, and illustrates that tree mortality, seed dispersal distance into the burn and…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, Alberta, Canada, conifers, crown fires, duff, elevation, fine fuels, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire size, fire suppression, fuel appraisal, fuel moisture, fuel types, habitat types, ignition, lightning caused fires, litter, moisture, montane forests, mortality, mountainous terrain, mountains, national parks, organic matter, overstory, Picea, Picea engelmannii, pine, Pinus contorta, plant growth, post fire recovery, radiation, rate of spread, regeneration, reproduction, sampling, seed dispersal, seed germination, site treatments, smoke behavior, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, subalpine forests, topography, trees, water, wildfires, wind
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, Erica hebecalyx, Erica sessiliflora, Ericaceae, fynbos, gases, heat effects, seed germination, seeds, South Africa
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fuel types, Ilex glabra, particulates, pine forests, Serenoa repens, smoke management, wind
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: conifers, flammability, hardwoods, heat, heat effects, laboratory fires, Ohio, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus rubra, wood, wood properties
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, central Florida, Florida, pine forests
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: burning permits, fire intensity, fire management, firing techniques, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, liability, litter, live fuels, logging, pine forests, plant growth, site treatments, slash, smoke behavior, smoke management, wildlife management, wind
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, Australia, European settlement, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, habitat conversion, hunting, presettlement fires, smoke effects, wildfires
From the text...'The benefits of prescribed fire are many, but prescribed fire is a complex tool and should be used only by those trained in its use. Proper diagnosis and detailed planning are needed for every area where burning is contemplated. The incomplete assessment of any…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: aesthetics, backing fires, cavity nesting birds, Colinus virginianus, distribution, Drymarchon corais, Felis concolor, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, forest management, game birds, general interest, Gopherus polyphemus, hardwoods, headfires, landscape ecology, liability, mammals, mosaic, nesting cover, nongame birds, Odocoileus, Picoides borealis, pine forests, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, plant communities, recreation, reptiles, riparian habitats, season of fire, smoke effects, spot fires, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), understory vegetation, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
Custer State Park is a large multiple use park where the dominant vegetation is ponderosa pine. Past management practices and recent wildfires have created a variety of stand structures. The Resource Management Plan was designed and written in holistic fashion; public input was…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Social Science
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: age classes, Betula papyrifera, Black Hills, computer programs, coniferous forests, digital data collection, ecosystem dynamics, fire intensity, fire suppression, forest management, GIS, histories, logging, overstory, Picea glauca, Pinus ponderosa, population density, population ecology, Populus tremuloides, public information, Quercus macrocarpa, South Dakota, stand characteristics, state parks, statistical analysis, vegetation surveys, wildfires
The AERONOX programme investigated the impact of NOx emissions from aircraft on the atmosphere and included an extensive modelling programme. In the model comparisons undertaken within the AERONOX programme, a standard set of emissions of NO from both aviation and non-aviation…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, Asia, biomass, combustion, decomposition, deforestation, distribution, forest management, gases, grasslands, human caused fires, lightning, microorganisms, post fire recovery, rainforests, shrublands, soils, South America, statistical analysis, tropical forests, tundra, NOx, biomass burning, soils, lightning, troposphere, ammonia oxidation, fossil fuels, global emissions, inventories, AERONOX
California chaparral and South African fynbos are fire-prone communities dominated by species exhibiting remarkable similarities in germination response. In both regions there are a substantial number of species with germination stimulated chemically by charred wood and smoke.…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California, Great Basin, International
Keywords: Africa, annual plants, Calochortus, Ceanothus leucodermis, Ceanothus megacarpus, chaparral, char, Emmenanthe penduliflora, evolution, fynbos, germination, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, Mediterranean habitats, perennial plants, plant growth, post fire recovery, range management, regeneration, seed germination, shrubs, South Africa
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: air temperature, Australia, convection, dead fuels, eucalyptus, Eucalyptus sieberi, field experimental fires, fire intensity, fire management, flame length, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, ignition, leaves, live fuels, New South Wales, radiation, rate of spread, scorch, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, surface fuels, understory vegetation, wind
Prescribed burning costs are extemely variable, even if conditions are similar. This variability complicates planning and evaluation of prescribed burning programs and budgets, resulting in imprecise projecions of their economic benefits. Evaluating the worth of prescribed…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, fire size, Idaho, Montana, mopping up, Oregon, statistical analysis
Before the smoke has cleared, emergency rehabilitation efforts get underway to "repair” the damage done by both fire and the suppression efforts. Expensive, monumental, highly publicized measures are taken to protect property down stream of the burn area from floods, including…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Planning
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: artificial regeneration, Canis lupus, Cascades Range, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, Falco peregrinus, fertilization, fire hazard reduction, fire regimes, fire suppression, floods, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, landscape ecology, lightning caused fires, multiple resource management, national forests, pine forests, public information, roads, salvage, streams, Strix occidentalis, threatened and endangered species, threatened and endangered species (animals), Ursus arctos, vulnerable species or communities, wildlife, wildlife habitat management