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Smoke generated from low-intensity prescribed fires used for fuels management can have an adverse impact on local air quality, raising human health and safety concerns especially in wildland-urban-interface areas. Local smoke behavior is a complex process and is highly dependent…
Person: Heilman
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: low intensity burns, meteorology and smoke, smoke dispersion, New Jersey Pine Barrens, fire-induced atmospheric conditions
Since 2010, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has been coordinating a USDA multi-agency program to conduct an emissions inventory of black carbon from fires and burning in Russia, examine transport of black carbon from these sources to the Arctic, and identify and implement…
Person: Kinder, Hao
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: wildfires, agricultural burning, Arctic, black carbon, Russia
Satellite remote sensing is generally the most practical way to measure aerosol amount and type frequently, over large areas. However, aerosol remote sensing is especially challenging in the polar regions, due to the combination of very bright surface, low sun angle, persistent…
Person: Kahn
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: remote sensing, aerosols, climate change, global warming, aerosol transport, CALIPSO
Black carbon is the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide. When BC is deposited on snow and ice, it darkens an otherwise bright surface. The darker surface may enhance the absorption of solar radiation resulting in an acceleration of snow and ice…
Person: Quinn
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: agricultural burning, albedo, black carbon, Arctic climate system, arctic warming, wildfire
Randall Roy of the Missouri Department of Conservation discussed the use of prescribed fire on the Drury-Mincy conservation area during a Missouri State University Biology Department seminar.
Person: Roy
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: Missouri, burn plans, fuels reduction, habitat, plant diversity, smoke management, topography, fuel loads, glade
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar presented by USDA Forest Service Air Resource Specialist Pete Lahm. This webinar presented an introduction to the six components of the USFS-NRCS Basic Smoke Management Practices.
Person: Lahm
Year: 2014
Type: Media
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: air quality, smoke management
Smoke from wildfires has adverse biological and social consequences, and various lines of evidence suggest that smoke from wildfires in the future may be more intense and widespread, demanding that methods be developed to address its effects on people, ecosystems, and the…
Person: McKenzie, Shankar
Year: 2014
Type: Media
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: fire regimes, climate change, smoke transport, feedbacks
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar presented by Jennifer Evans, Prescribed Fire Extension Specialist with the North Carolina State University Extension Forestry program. This webinar introduced material contained within a newly developed integrated curriculum package on wildland…
Person: Evans
Year: 2014
Type: Media
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: fire education, smoke management
Talat Odman presented a webinar on March 4, 2014. Smoke from wildland fires can have adverse impacts on visibility and also on public health. Models are available for simulating the dispersion, long-range transport, and chemical evolution of fire plumes and predicting their…
Person: Odman
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, smoke dispersion, public health, smoke prediction systems
Haiganoush Preisler talks about her work modeling very large fires over very large areas. She is a research scientist and statistician with the USFS PSW Research Station and lead author on the attached paper. You can find out more about her work at: http://www.wfas.net/index.…
Person: Preisler
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire size, frequency of occurrence, logistic regression, probability of ignition, large fire occurrence, spatial and temporal distribution, probability model, MTBS - Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity, FPI - Fire Potential Index
Shawn Urbanski presented (Jan 14, 2014) an overview of the dataset 'Airborne and Lidar measurements of smoke plume rise, emissions, and dispersion.' The dataset consists of measurements of smoke emissions, plume rise, and dispersion for eight wildfires in the western United…
Person: Urbanski
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, plume rise, smoke dispersion, airborne measurements
Marko Princevac and Christian Bartolome presented a webinar on February 12, 2014 on superfog. Superfog is a dense smoke cloud that reduces visibility to less than 10 feet. Major car pile ups, such as ones in Florida on the Interstate Highways 4 and 75 in 2008 and 2012, have…
Person: Princevac, Bartolome
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: visibility, laboratory experiments, superfog
Yong Liu presented a webinar on February 19, 1 PM MST. Plume height is one of the smoke properties that fire and air quality managers need to estimate in order to determine how much pollutants emitted from a prescribed burn are transported to remote populated areas from the burn…
Person: Liu
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, plume rise, smoke transport
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar presented by retired USDA Forest Service prescribed fire and wildland fire specialist Dale Wade. This webinar presented some of his experience and lessons in managing smoke from over forty years of burning in Southern US ecosystems.
Person: Wade
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: smoke management
Smoke emission factors (EFs) have been developed for a variety of wildland fuels beginning in the late 1960s. Many of these EFs have been presented in a variety of outlets and there is no centralized repository containing many of the EFs developed in the 1970s and 1980s. This…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Data
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: particulates, trace gases, biota
This data product contains three vector shapefiles of the burn blocks for the 2008, 2011, and 2012 Prescribed Fire Combustion and Atmospheric Dynamics Research Experiment (RxCADRE). These plots are located at Eglin Air Force Base, northeast of Valparaiso, Florida and at the…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Eglin Air Force Base, fire suppression, environment, fire detection, RxCADRE, Joseph Jones Ecological Research Center
The Prescribed Fire Combustion and Atmospheric Dynamics Research Experiment (RxCADRE) was designed to collect atmospheric, fuels, fire behavior, energy balance, emissions, and fire effects data to advance fire models and further our understanding of smoke emissions. This dataset…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Eglin Air Force Base, environment, greenhouse gases, smoke dispersion, Florida, biomass burning, RxCADRE
[From the text] Fire has been an integral part of America's wildlands for millions of years. The only environments not experiencing fire as a significant ecological factor were those that remained very cold, very wet, or very dry, and even in these regions, extreme variation in…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations, fire exclusion, fire management, fire management planning, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel types, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, national parks, chance ignition prescribed fires, recreation
Anthropogenic fires in Australia's fire-prone savannas produce up to 3% of the nation's accountable greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Incentives to improve fire management have been created by a nationally accredited savanna burning emissions abatement methodology applying to 483…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, fire regimes, human caused fires, air quality, C - carbon, gases, CH4 - methane, precipitation, Northern Territory of Australia, Queensland, western Australia, Australia, fire management, range management, savannas, burning, carbon markets, emissions abatement, fire management, CH4 - methane, N2O - nitrous oxide, non-CO2 gases, rainfall, savanna fire
Burning of savanna is a globally important source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In Australia, burning of savanna contributes between 2% and 4% annually of the nation's reportable emissions. Complete removal of this source of emissions is unrealistic because fire is a…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: C - carbon, greenhouse gases, Northern Territory of Australia, Queensland, western Australia, Australia, fire management, range management, savannas, carbon sequestration, diversification, greenhouse gases, savannas
Biomass burning is a significant source of fine particulate matter (PM2.5). Forest, bush, and peat fires in Kalimantan and Sumatra, Indonesia are major sources of transboundary haze pollution in Southeast Asia. However, limited data exist regarding the chemical characteristics…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, peat fires, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, C - carbon, ENSO, Indonesia, Sumatra, Asia, fire management, forest management, peatlands, carbonaceous aerosol, PM2.5, levoglucosan, mannosan, biomass burning
Land activities contribute ~18% of total greenhouse gas emissions produced in Australia. To help reduce these emissions, the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) was implemented in 2011 to encourage land projects, which reduce the production of greenhouse gases and/or sequester…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, energy, greenhouse gases, Northern Territory of Australia, Queensland, western Australia, Australia, fire management, range management, land management, rangelands, savannas, aboriginal, carbon sequestration, carbon credits, environmental services, property rights
Current emissions inventories of black carbon aerosol, an important component of PM2.5 and a powerful climate altering species, are highly uncertain in both space and time. One of the major and hardest to constrain sources of black carbon is fire, which comes from a combination…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, aerosols, air quality, C - carbon, Asia, fire management, smoke management, black carbon, fires, atmospheric chemistry, data assimilation
Climate projections show Australia becoming significantly warmer during the 21st century, and precipitation decreasing over much of the continent. Such changes are conventionally considered to increase wildfire risk. Nevertheless, we show that burnt area increases in southern…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire adaptations (plants), fire regimes, fire size, wildfires, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, climate change, litter, vegetation surveys, Australia, fire management, forest management, carbon cycle, fire regimes, Co2 Fertilization, water use efficiency, dynamic vegetation modeling, future environmental changes
Smoke from biomass fires makes up a substantial portion of global greenhouse gas, aerosol, and black carbon (GHG/A/BC) emissions. Understanding how fuel characteristics and conditions affect fire occurrence and extent, combustion dynamics, and fuel consumption is critical for…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, remote sensing, sampling, fire management, forest management, classification, sampling, remote sensing, physical, chemical, scaling