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Fires in croplands, plantations, and rangelands contribute significantly to fire emissions in the United States, yet are often overshadowed by wildland fires in efforts to develop inventories or estimate responses to climate change. Here we quantified decadal trends, interannual…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: cropland fires, fire regimes, wildfires, air quality, climate change, plantations, remote sensing, fire management, range management, croplands, rangelands, agriculture, air quality, carbon cycle, wildfire, aerosols
From the text ... ''GIS and mapping tools are playing an ever-increasing role in our day-to-day work. We use GIS and mapping tools for fuels treatment planning and monitoring as well as for communication and record keeping. We also utilize many models that incorporate both our…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Intelligence, Mapping, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: prescribed fires (escaped), wildfires, GIS, Noble, C, Florida, fire management, forest management
Forest fires are a significant source of air pollution in Asia. In this study, we integrate satellite remote sensing data and ground-based measurements to infer fire-air pollution relationships in selected regions of Vietnam. We first characterized the active fires and burnt…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, particulates, pollution, remote sensing, vegetation surveys, Vietnam, Asia, fire management, forest management, active fires, biomass burning, atmospheric variables, particulate matter concentration, Vietnam
The past decade marked record high air pollution episodes in Indonesia. In this study, we specifically focus on vegetation fires in Palangkaraya located near a Mega Rice Project area in Indonesia. We analyzed various gaseous air pollution data such as particulate matter (PM10),…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: peat fires, wildfires, air quality, particulates, pollution, remote sensing, Indonesia, Asia, fire management, forest management, haze, peat fire, air pollutants, photochemical smog, PM10, MODIS
A wildfire is an uncontrolled fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or a wilderness area. The United Nation International Strategy for Disaster Reduction estimates that between 3 and 4 million km2 are affected by wildfire annually, with 18,000…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, fire size, wildfires, air quality, health factors, remote sensing, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Europe, fire management, forest management, Mediterranean habitats, wildfires, exposure, assessment, wildfire emissions, health effects, inventory, Mediterranean region, air pollutants
Exposure to forest fire smoke (FFS) is associated with a range of adverse health effects. The British Columbia Asthma Medication Surveillance (BCAMS) product was developed to detect potential impacts from FFS in British Columbia (BC), Canada. However, it has been a challenge to…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Models, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire danger rating, smoke effects, aerosols, air quality, health factors, remote sensing, British Columbia, Canada, fire management, forest management, smoke management, biomass smoke, exposure assessment, forest fire, particulate matter
This study explored the use of satellite data to monitor carbon monoxide (CO) and particulate matter (PM) in Northern Thailand during the dry season when forest fires are known to be an important cause of air pollution. Satellite data, including Measurement of Pollution in the…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, particulates, pollution, remote sensing, Thailand, Asia, fire management, forest management, smoke management, satellite data, ground monitoring, PM10, northern Thailand, forest fire
Fire emissions associated with tropical land use change and maintenance influence atmospheric composition, air quality, and climate. In this study, we explore the effects of representing fire emissions at daily versus monthly resolution in a global composition-climate model. We…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire intensity, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, particulates, remote sensing, Asia, Africa, Amazon, Brazil, South America, fire management, forest management, tropical forests, tropical regions, atmospheric modeling, air quality
In July and August 2012, a combination of dry weather and record-breaking temperatures led to an unusually intense wildfire season in Boreal Asia. Based on model results and satellite observations it is thought that a portion of the smoke output from these fires was carried…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence
Region(s): Northwest, International
Keywords: wildfires, aerosols, air quality, particulates, remote sensing, Siberia, Russia, Asia, British Columbia, Canada, fire management, smoke management, LiDAR, aerosols, long range transport, air quality, 2012 boreal Asia fires
The 2006 Esperanza Fire in Riverside County, California, was simulated with the Coupled Atmosphere-Wildland Fire Environment (CAWFE) model to examine how dynamic interactions of the atmosphere with large-scale fire spread and energy release may affect observed patterns of fire…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Safety, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire case histories, fire injuries (humans), fire size, fuel loading, fuel models, heat, rate of spread, wildfires, Foehn winds, remote sensing, temperature, wind, southern California, fire management, forest management, airborne remote sensing, coupled atmosphere-fire model, horizontal roll vortices, Santa Ana winds, Esperanza Fire
The aim of this paper was to provide an overview of the current state of the art on research into the emission of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) from vegetation fires. Significant amounts of VOCs are emitted from vegetation fires, including several reactive…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, heat effects, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, chemical compounds, hydrocarbons, organic soils, ozone, plant communities, remote sensing, Africa, Amazon, South America, fire management, Mediterranean habitats, savannas, biomass burning, BVOC - Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds, combustion phases, forest fires, isoprenoids, plant communities and functional types
CALIPSO Level-1 attenuated backscatter and Level-2 aerosol products (Version-3.01) are evaluated with a combined ground-based lidar and AERONET-sunphotometer measurements in the daytime over the New York metropolitan area. To assess the CALIPSO Level-1 product, we combine the co…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: smoke effects, aerosols, air quality, remote sensing, New York, fire management, smoke management, LiDAR, aerosol layer, type classification, extinction and backscatter
Forest fires are a major contributor of gaseous and particulate compounds to the atmosphere, impairing air quality and affecting human health. A new forest fire emissions module was developed and integrated into the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), which…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire case histories, fire intensity, fire size, fuel loading, fuel moisture, wildfires, air quality, gases, humidity, overstory, particulates, pollution, precipitation, remote sensing, temperature, Portugal, Europe, fire management, forest management, smoke management, forest aires, burnt area, gas and particulate pollutants, air quality
The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by personnel from agencies and organizations within AWFCG during 2014 Fall Fire Review and through other solicitations. The topics were initially ranked by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: research needs
We simulated public health forecast-based interventions during a wildfire smoke episode in rural North Carolina to show the potential for use of modeled smoke forecasts toward reducing the health burden and showed a significant economic benefit of reducing exposures. Daily and…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: North Carolina, wildfires, public health, smoke forecasting, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, health risk, economic impacts, mortality, asthma, interventions, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, smoke effects, air quality, health factors, pollution, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, smoke management
The International Fire Smoke Symposium is proposed for the fall of 2013 and will be co-presented by The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) and the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Smoke Committee (SmoC). The purpose of this conference is to convene air…
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Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, symposium
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
Carbon emissions from boreal forest fires are projected to increase with continued warming and constitute a potentially significant positive feedback to climate change. The highest consistent combustion levels are reported in interior Alaska and can be highly variable depending…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: crown fires, fire size, fuel loading, fuel moisture, wildfires, air quality, albedo, C - carbon, remote sensing, soil organic matter, Picea glauca, white spruce, Picea mariana, black spruce, Populus, aspen, fire management, forest management, boreal forests, coniferous forests, boreal forest, atmospheric CO2, climate feedbacks, Differenced Normalized Burn Ratio
Evaluating the influence of observed daily weather on observed fire-related effects (e.g. smoke production, carbon emissions and burn severity) often involves knowing exactly what day any given area has burned. As such, several studies have used fire progression maps - in which…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: fire intensity, smoke effects, wildfires, C - carbon, remote sensing, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Washington, fire management, forest management, fire progression maps, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, spatial interpolation, fire progression, satellite
Biomass burning is a major source of greenhouse gases, aerosols, black carbon, and atmospheric pollutants that affects regional and global climate and air quality. The spatial and temporal extent of fires and the size of burned areas are critical parameters in the estimation of…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: biomass burning, fire size, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, biomass burning, burned area, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, MTBS - Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity
The current research study aims at investigating the atmospheric implications of a major fire event in the Mediterranean area. For this purpose, a regional aerosol model coupled online with meteorology (COSMO-ART) is applied over Greece during late summer 2007. Fire risk model…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, aerosols, air quality, C - carbon, remote sensing, Greece, Europe, fire management, forest management, wildfires, fire weather indices, organic carbon, elemental carbon, aerosol radiative forcing, Greece
We analysed the variability of equivalent black carbon (BC) and ozone (O3) at the global WMO/GAW station Nepal Climate Observatory-Pyramid (NCO-P, 5079 m a.s.l.) in the southern Himalayas, for evaluating the possible contribution of open vegetation fires to the variability of…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, season of fire, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, ozone, pollution, remote sensing, India, Nepal, Asia, fire management, smoke management, black carbon, ozone, Himalayas, biomass burning, pollution
Biomass burning emissions from intensive wildfires in eastern Europe were observed in Finland in the spring of 2006 and in the late of summers 2006 and 2010. The smoke plumes were detected at three ground-measurement stations around Finland and in the lower troposphere after…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, albedo, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, N - nitrogen, ozone, particulates, remote sensing, Finland, Europe, fire management, smoke management