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Temperature, intensity, spread, and dimensions of fires burning in tropical savanna and slashed tropical forest in central Brazil were measured for the first time by remote sensing with an infrared imaging spectrometer that was designed to accommodate the high radiances of…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, biogeochemical cycles, Brazil, C - carbon, cerrado, combustion, distribution, energy, fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, firebreaks, flame length, forest management, gases, GIS, ignition, radiation, rate of spread, remote sensing, savannas, slash, smoke behavior, South America, statistical analysis, temperature, tropical forests, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind

Fire has been a significant ecosystem process in the Southeast for thousands of years. It kept slash pine in the wetter parts of the flatwoods pine forests historically. Today, when slash pine covers a much larger landscape, fire still plays an integral role in its management.…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, browse, burning permits, cavity nesting birds, Colinus virginianus, cover, crown scorch, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire management, flatwoods, forage, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, GIS, Gopherus polyphemus, hydrology, insects, invasive species, liability, longleaf pine, mammals, mortality, N - nitrogen, nutrients, old growth forests, pH, Picoides borealis, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus elliottii densa, Pinus palustris, plant diseases, plant growth, plantations, post fire recovery, public information, regeneration, remote sensing, reptiles, shrubs, slash, slash pine, smoke management, soil nutrients, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), Ursus americanus floridanus, vegetation surveys, water quality, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food habits, wildlife habitat management

As part of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study, we measured the short-term effects of different fuel-management practices on leaf litter decomposition and soil respiration in loblolly pine stands on the upper Piedmont of South Carolina. These stands had been subjected to…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: Acer rubrum, biogeochemical cycles, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, combustion, decay, decomposition, ecosystem dynamics, experimental areas, fire hazard reduction, fuel management, leaves, litter, loblolly pine, National Fire Plan, N - nitrogen, nitrogen fixation, Nyssa sylvatica, Piedmont, pine forests, Pinus echinata, Pinus taeda, Pinus virginiana, Quercus, soils, South Carolina, thinning, understory vegetation, Vaccinium

This study analyzes spatial and temporal variability of emissions from wildland fires across the contiguous US. The emissions are estimates based on a recently constructed dataset of historical fire records collected by multiple US governmental agencies. Both wildfire and…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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: air pollution, PM - particulate matter

Fire performs many beneficial ecosystem functions in dry forests and rangelands across much of North America. In the last century, however, the role of fire has been dramatically altered by numerous anthropogenic factors acting as root causes of the current fire crisis,…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, ecological integrity, fire restoration, public lands, wildfire policy, age classes, bibliography, catastrophic fires, climatology, coniferous forests, conservation, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, fire management planning, fire regimes, forest fragmentation, forest types, fragmentation, fuel accumulation, fuel management, grazing, introduced species, invasive species, landscape ecology, livestock, logging, natural resource legislation, old growth forest, plant communities, post-fire recovery, public information, riparian habitats, roads, salvage, animal species diversity, plant species diversity, succession, suppression, thinning, weed control, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife refuges

Combustion aerosol particles from boreal forest fires were quantified to facilitate investigation of the potential effects of increased fire activity caused by global warming, by providing data inputs for global and regional climate modelling of the direct and indirect effects.…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: Canada, crown fires, jack pine, Pinus banksiana, black spruce, ICFME - International Crown Fire Modeling Experiment, Picea mariana, Northwest Territories, aerosols, air quality, air temperature, boreal forest, C - carbon, climatology, combustion, duff, experimental areas, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, climate change, humidity, overstory, particulates, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, understory vegetation, wind

As a source of atmospheric carbon, biomass burning emissions associated with deforestation in the Amazon are globally significant. Once deforested, these lands continue to be sources of substantial burning emissions for many years due to frequent pasture burning. The objective…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: C - carbon, land use, Amazon, Brazil, Rondonia, trace gas emissions, regenerating forest, biomass burning, land-cover change, pasture, primary forest