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From the text ... 'It was the first time I ever heard a DNR pilot state that nothing could be done about a fire.... When the wind began to change, I saw something I had never seen before except on television. The smoke column started twisting like a tornado.... The fire behavior…
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, catastrophic fires, cones, coniferous forests, droughts, fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, firebreaks, flame length, forest management, fuel accumulation, Larix occidentalis, lightning caused fires, litter, national forests, Pinus contorta, rate of spread, regeneration, spot fires, Washington, wildfires, wind
From the text ... 'A new definition of the wildland/ruban interface is needed, along with a commitment to protect and preserve all neighborhood and community at-risk values.'
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Southwest
Keywords: aesthetics, Arizona, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, education, erosion, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel appraisal, fuel loading, fuel management, grazing, health factors, land management, liability, logging, National Fire Plan, plant communities, public information, recreation, rural communities, smoke behavior, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), urban habitats, Washington, watersheds
From the text ... 'The Haines Index is the first attempt to construct a formal fire-weather index based upon features of the lower atmosphere.Does it work?... This index uses the environmental lapse rate (temperature difference) within a layer of air coupled with its moisture…
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, Colorado, crown fires, fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, humidity, Idaho, lightning caused fires, moisture, Montana, national forests, Oregon, rate of spread, rural communities, smoke behavior, spot fires, statistical analysis, temperature, topography, Washington, water, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind
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Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, coniferous forests, conservation, diseases, ecosystem dynamics, education, FIA - Forest Inventory and Analysis, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, forest management, forest products, grazing, histories, invasive species, land management, national forests, native species (plants), natural resource legislation, pine forests, private lands, public information, range management, rangelands, recreation, roads, salvage, Smokey Bear program, soil erosion, state forests, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), US Forest Service, urban habitats, vegetation surveys, watershed management, weeds, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, community ecology, ecosystem dynamics, education, experimental fires, fire control, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (humans), fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, flammability, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, histories, ignition, low intensity burns, population density, population ecology, post fire recovery, private lands, public information, rural communities, season of fire, smoke effects, succession, thinning, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aesthetics, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel management, invasive species, land management, lightning caused fires, national forests, national parks, old growth forests, presettlement fires, public information, smoke effects, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, carbon dioxide, combustion, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire scar analysis, fire size, fuel loading, grasslands, precipitation, range management, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, South Africa, wildfires
The Northwest Regional Modeling Consortium (NWRMC) has been supporting the real-time predictions of mesoscale weather since 1993. The consortium includes local, state, and federal agencies with interests in air quality, smoke management, fire weather, water resources, hazard…
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, catastrophic fires, computer programs, fire danger rating, fire management, hydrology, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Montana, ozone, physics, remote sensing, runoff, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, storms, water, weather observations, wildfires
BlueSky is a real-time smoke forecast system that predicts surface smoke concentrations from prescribed fire, wildfire, and agricultural burn activities. Developed by the USDA Forest Service in cooperation with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it is a tool used by…
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, catastrophic fires, chemical elements, competition, computer networks, computer programs, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, fuel appraisal, fuel loading, fuel types, GIS, grass fires, health factors, histories, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, Montana, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, suppression, topography, US Forest Service, Washington, wilderness areas, wildfires
Local scale meteorology, vegetation fuel type, fuel arrangement and distribution, complex firing ignition patterns, fire intensity and it's effect on fire behavior, fire effects, and smoke plume loft and dispersion is critical to prescribed fire management and Go No/Go decision…
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, chaparral, coastal vegetation, computer programs, dead fuels, distribution, fine fuels, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, flammability, fuel arrangement, fuel moisture, fuel types, heat, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, live fuels, military lands, moisture, prescribed fires (chance ignition), rate of spread, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, weather observations, wind
This paper presents preliminary results of an effort to assess impacts caused by forest fires on regional air quality and visibility. Regional air quality is the result of many, many different sources of air pollution being transported, dispersed, chemically transformed, wet and…
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, chemistry, community ecology, computer programs, fire danger rating, fire management, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, pollution, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, US Forest Service, wildfires
The objective of this study is to improve the ability to model the air quality impacts of biomass burning on the surrounding environment. The focus is on prescribed burning emissions from a military reservation, Fort Benning in Georgia, and their impact on local and regional air…
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: adaptation, air quality, biomass, community ecology, computer programs, ecosystem dynamics, environmental impact analysis, fire danger rating, fire management, Georgia, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, landscape ecology, military lands, ozone, remote sensing, smoke management, statistical analysis
Rex Creek, located on the northwest shore of Lake Chelan on the east side of the Cascade Mountain Range, was the site of Eastern Washington's largest fire in the summer of 2001. Ignited by lightning, the wildfire burned a total of 54,298 acres and exposed the communities of…
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, catastrophic fires, computer programs, fire case histories, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, lightning, lightning caused fires, rangeland fires, rangelands, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
The 2000 fire season brought to the forefront the issue of severe wildland fires in the United States. To address the need for new research and for the development of predictive tools for managing wildland fires, Congress allocated funding under the National Fire Plan (NFP) to…
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Models, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: catastrophic fires, computer programs, droughts, evolution, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire equipment, fire growth, fire intensity, fire management, firefighting personnel, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, National Fire Plan, New Jersey, rate of spread, season of fire, smoke effects, state parks, statistical analysis, topography, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind
This study focuses on evaluating two stability indices commonly used in fire weather with regard to their predictive ability for the potential for large wildfires. The Haines Index is a common component in fire weather forecasts and provides an indication of the potential for…
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: catastrophic fires, computer programs, droughts, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire management, Florida, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Wildfire spread in living vegetation, such as chaparral in southern California, often causes significant damage to infrastructure and ecosystems. A physically-based semi-empirical model to predict surface fire spread rate is used in the United States to assist in a variety of…
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Adenostoma, Adenostoma fasciculatum, aesthetics, Arctostaphylos, brush, Ceanothus, chaparral, ecosystem dynamics, fire equipment, fire intensity, fire management, flame length, fuel management, fuel types, gases, heat, heat effects, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, live fuels, manzanita, overstory, Quercus, rate of spread, remote sensing, scrub, shrubs, smoke behavior, southern California, statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, temperature, understory vegetation, wildfires
Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge is located on the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on the central east coast of Florida. Most of the fuels found on the refuge burn with high intensity, and many are important habitat for threatened and endangered species. Little fire…
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: catastrophic fires, education, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, flatwoods, Florida, fuel loading, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, marshes, military lands, multiple resource management, public information, scrub, smoke management, south Florida, threatened and endangered species, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), vulnerable species or communities, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wildlife refuges
The ability to utilize prescribed fire for various ecological and agricultural purposes in Florida is often hampered by issues (such as smoke management and public education/notification ) stemming from the close proximity of developed areas to fire-dependant ecosystems. One…
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, burning permits, central Florida, education, fire dependent species, fire management, Florida, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, liability, multiple resource management, public information, smoke management, urban habitats
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Logistics, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, backfires, conservation, education, fire management, firebreaks, firefighting personnel, firing techniques, forest management, headfires, ignition, land use, liability, livestock, logging, mopping up, Oklahoma, public information, smoke behavior, smoke management, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, Colorado, coniferous forests, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental impact analysis, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, health factors, Healthy Forests Initiative, heavy fuels, landscape ecology, low intensity burns, Montana, multiple resource management, National Fire Plan, national parks, natural resource legislation, New Mexico, private lands, public information, range management, rangelands, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
Spatial depictions of fire regimes are indispensable to fire management because they portray important characteristics of wildland fire, such as severity, intensity, and pattern, across a landscape that serves as important reference for future treatment activities. However,…
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies, International
Keywords: aborigines, Australia, catastrophic fires, computer programs, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, Eucalyptus spp., fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fuel accumulation, fuel types, GIS - geographic information system, ignition, landscape ecology, Montana, Native Americans, presettlement fires, rate of spread, remote sensing, season of fire, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, statistical analysis, succession, surface fires, surface fuels, wildfires, FIRESCAPE, landscape modeling, LANDSUM - LANDscape SUccession Model
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Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, Australia, biomass, Brazil, char, charcoal, deciduous plants, distribution, eucalyptus, fine fuels, fire dependent species, fire intensity, fire management, fuel loading, fuel types, GIS, grasslands, habitat types, leaves, mosaic, overstory, population density, remote sensing, savannas, smoke behavior, smoke effects, South Africa, South America, statistical analysis, surface fuels, tropical forests, tropical regions, understory vegetation, wildfires, Zambia
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Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Models
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, brush, CO - carbon monoxide, catastrophic fires, Colorado, combustion, coniferous forests, fire case histories, fire equipment, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire suppression (aerial), forest management, fuel management, fuel models, fuel types, gases, grasses, humidity, litter, moisture, needles, overstory, particulates, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, Populus spp., precipitation, rate of spread, topography, understory vegetation, wildfires, wind
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Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: catastrophic fires, Colorado, coniferous forests, crown fires, fire case histories, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, flame length, forest management, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, GIS, humidity, logging, mortality, photography, plantations, rate of spread, scorch, site treatments, smoke behavior, stand characteristics, surface fires, thinning, wildfires, wind
From the text ... 'We conclude that HRV did form during an intense Montana wildland fire on a mountain face that was observed by the junior author. This article describes the phenomenon.'
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Logistics, Models, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: crown fires, fire case histories, fire control, fire equipment, fire intensity, fire management, fire whirls, flame length, fuel models, grass fuels, Montana, Pinus contorta, Pseudotsuga menziesii, rate of spread, spot fires, topography, US Forest Service, vortices, Washington, wildfires, wind