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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: education, fire case histories, fire management, Komarek, E.V., Sr., Los Alamos, Mexico, national forests, national parks, New Mexico, public information, smoke management, Tall Timbers Research Station
Biomass characterization and fire behavior documentation were carried out on two large (>2000 ha) experimental fires conducted in arid savanna fuels in Kruger National Park in September 1992. Prefire fuel loads, fuel consumption, spread rates, flame zone characteristics, and…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, backfires, biomass, convection, energy, experimental fires, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, flame length, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, grasses, headfires, humidity, ignition, national parks, particulates, precipitation, rate of spread, sampling, savannas, South Africa, temperature, vegetation surveys, wind
From the text (p.117) ... 'In awe and supplication Mescalero Apache dancers honor flames on their New Mexico reservation. 'Fire is sacred to us,' says one Apache leader. 'It provides warmth, food, protection.' Most Americans, however, fear fire beyond the hearth and for decades…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Rocky Mountain, Southern
Keywords: boreal forests, catastrophic fires, chaparral, coniferous forests, crown fires, duff, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, Georgia, grasslands, lightning caused fires, Mexico, military lands, New Mexico, nongame birds, Picoides borealis, Pinus contorta, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus taeda, population density, post fire recovery, rate of spread, seed germination, Sequoia, smoke effects, Stoddard, H.L., surface fires, tallgrass prairies, understory vegetation, wetlands, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
After replacement of tropical primary forests, fire becomes an important management tool. During establishment of plantations with fast-growing tree species and within slash-and-burn agriculture, the export of macronutrients and other elements to the atmosphere by burning was…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Amazon, ash, Brazil, clearcutting, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, land use, leaching, litter, nutrients, particulates, plantations, precipitation, slash, slash and burn, soil leaching, South America, tropical forests, volatilization, slash burning, nutrient release, humid tropics
Ozone generation is computed in a one-dimensional photochemistry code following convective redistribution of tropical urban effluent into the free troposphere. Simulations are run at several stages of pollutant dilution by surrounding surface air. A threshold boundary layer NOx…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Amazon, Brazil, convection, forest management, hydrocarbons, ozone, rate of spread, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke management, South America, storms, tropical forests, wildfires, wind
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Adenostoma fasciculatum, Africa, Australia, bark, bibliographies, boreal forests, Casuarina, Ceanothus, chaparral, chemistry, coniferous forests, distribution, Emmenanthe penduliflora, fire dependent species, fire regimes, fynbos, grasses, Hakea, heathlands, Leucadendron, Mediterranean habitats, Pinus attenuata, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, plant growth, population ecology, post fire recovery, Protea, reproduction, roots, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, Sequoia sempervirens, serotiny, shrublands, small mammals, smoke effects, South Africa, sprouting, tropical forests, vulnerable species or communities, Widdringtonia
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, Argentina, Asia, bibliographies, biogeochemical cycles, biogeography, biomass, Brazil, Canada, crown fires, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, grasslands, India, Indonesia, Mediterranean habitats, Nepal, Philippines, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, plantations, savannas, sedimentation, tropical forests, Vietnam, wildfires
From the text...'This conceptual guide, Land Management Considerations in Fire-Adapted Ecosystems, provides baseline information for addressing fire management considerations in the Information/Assessment Phase of land management planning. The fire-related considerations are: 1…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: catastrophic fires, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire adaptations, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, land management, landscape ecology, national forests, pine forests, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus monticola, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus strobus, public information, smoke management, succession, surface fires, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Fires can mobilize radionuclides from contaminated biomass through suspension of gases and particles in the atmosphere or solubilization and enrichment of the ash. Field and laboratory burns were conducted to determine the fate of I, Cs and C1 in biomass fires. Straw, wood, peat…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, ash, biomass, Canada, chemical elements, chlorine, coniferous forests, cropland fires, fire management, fuel loading, fuel types, gases, laboratory fires, land management, peat, peat fires, pesticides, Pinus banksiana, Populus tremuloides, temperature, wildfires, wood, wood chemistry
Experimental studies and mesoscale modeling of atmospheric chemistry require a good knowledge of the sources of the atmospheric constituent, at a temporal scale of about one hour and at a spatial scale corresponding to the model grid. A combined remote sensing/modeling approach…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, biomass, chemical elements, chemistry, distribution, fire frequency, fuel appraisal, gases, climate change, ignition, land management, rate of spread, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, shrublands, statistical analysis
Abundant charcoal in forest soils gives evidence of prehistoric and historic natural and anthropogenic wildfires in perhumid lowland and in seasonal Dipterocarp forest types of continental and insular South Asia. Favorable conditions for the occurrence of historic and…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Weather, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, agriculture, Asia, biomass, Borneo, charcoal, chemical elements, chemistry, Dipterocarpus, droughts, ENSO, fire intensity, fire regimes, forest management, forest types, human caused fires, soils, tropical forests, wildfires, wood chemistry
From the Introduction...'Fire is the single most important ecological disturbance process throughout the interior Pacific Northwest (Mutch and others 1993; Agee 1994). It is also a natural process that helps maintain a diverse ecological landscape. Fire suppression and timber…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, air quality, coniferous forests, dead fuels, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental impact analysis, fire frequency, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel types, GIS, health factors, histories, Idaho, land management, land use, Larix lyallii, logging, Montana, natural resource legislation, Nevada, Oregon, Picea engelmannii, pine forests, Pinus albicaulis, public information, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke management, succession, Utah, Washington, watershed management, watersheds, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the Current Solutions...'Some breakthroughs in providing more latitude for expanding prescribed fire programs are apparent. For example, the state of Florida has enacted innovative legislation that provides liability protection for prescribed burning. In Oregon, a…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, Great Basin, Southwest, International
Keywords: air quality, Blue Mountains, cutting, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, Florida, forest management, land management, landscape ecology, liability, logging, mountains, multiple resource management, national forests, natural resource legislation, New Mexico, Oregon, partial cutting, salvage, thinning, trees, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Eastern, International
Keywords: Abies spp., Acer saccharinum, agriculture, air quality, Artemisia, Betula alleghaniensis, boreal forests, Canada, Carpinus, Carya, Castanea dentata, charcoal, Corylus, crown fires, deciduous forests, ecosystem dynamics, Fagus grandifolia, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire frequency, fire regimes, fire scar analysis, fossils, Fraxinus, Fraxinus americana, ignition, lakes, leaves, Minnesota, moisture, New York, Ontario, Ostrya, paleobotany, paleoecology, particulates, Picea, pine hardwood forests, Pinus banksiana, Pinus resinosa, Pinus strobus, Plantago, pollen, Populus, Quercus, Quercus alba, Quercus rubra, Quercus velutina, Rumex, sedimentation, senescence, site treatments, statistical analysis, Tilia americana, Tsuga, Tsuga canadensis, Ulmus, xeric soils, charcoal analysis, climate change, eastern deciduous forest, forest dynamics, pollen analysis, western New York state, VARVE THICKNESS, MIXED HARDWOODS, ARBOREAL POLLEN
The mesoscale meteorological model MEMO was applied to a real fire situation, which occurred in the central area of Portugal, with a very complex topography. In order to numerically provide boundary values at a higher temporal and spatial resolution, a one-way nesting technique…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: forest fire, Portugal, wind simulations, mesoscale model, complex terrain, air quality, air temperature, biogeography, climatology, Foehn winds, forest management, gases, humidity, Mediterranean habitats, nesting, rate of spread, sampling, statistical analysis, topography, wildfires, wind
Biomass burning is a common force in much of the developing tropical world and has wide-ranging environmental impacts. Fire is an important component in tropical deforestation and is often used to clear broad expanses of land for shifting agriculture, dispose of crop residue,…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: remote sensing, Brazil, airborne infrared imagery
This conference provided a forum in which resource specialists, managers, researchers, and other interested people could share their collective experiences, opinions, and informational needs on 1) the effects of fire on the resources, and 2) fire management in the Madrean…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southwest, International
Keywords: fire management, Madrean Province, research needs, air quality, community ecology, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire intensity, fire management planning, flame length, fire regimes, forest management, GIS - geographic information system, grazing, livestock, Madrean habitats, post-fire recovery, Mexico, rate of spread, wetlands, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
A large eddy simulation (LES) model of smoke plumes generated by large outdoor pool fires is presented. The plume is described in terms of steady-state convective transport by a uniform ambient wind of heated gases and particulate matter introduced into a stably stratified…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: crude oil, smoke plume, buoyant plume, large eddy simulation, in situ burning
Recent predictions that tropospheric aerosols have counterbalanced greenhouse warming assume aerosol emissions were low before ad1850 and then increased dramatically with industrialization of the Northern Hemisphere and biomass burning in the Tropics. We assembled the lake…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Eastern, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, charcoal, land use, aerosols, climate change, Northeast, biomass burning, deciduous forest, lake sediment, Midwest United States, Central Plains, air temperature, biomass, climatology, fire case histories, gases, lakes, land management, land use, sedimentation, Quebec, smoke effects, statistical analysis, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, wildfires
This paper's title - "Can we restore the fire process? What awaits us if we don't?" - represents an ecologist's view of the world. I submit that this view is unrealistic. The first clause uses the term "restore" which implies reestablishing the fire process of the past. The…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire regimes, air quality, biomass, clearcutting, combustion, ecosystem dynamics, energy, fertilizers, fire adaptations, fire frequency, fire management planning, land use, multiple resource management, N - nitrogen, regeneration, temperature, wildfires
Forest management planning models are highly developed and used extensively, but few explicitly consider the effects of fire and other uncertain losses which can be significant. Previous studies recommended contradictory responses to potential fire loss. We developed forest-…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, optimization, harvest schedule, timber supply modeling, uncertain forest losses, Ontario, air quality, boreal forest, climatology, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, forest management, logging, plant growth
ANNOTATION: Guidelines in the form of a six-step approach are provided for estimating volumes, oven-dry mass, consumption, and particulate matter emissions for piled logging debris. Seven stylized pile shapes and their associated geometric volume formulae are used to estimate…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: biomass consumption, smoke management, piled slash, western United States
Several smoke-dispersion models, which currently are available for modeling smoke from biomass burns, were evaluated for ease of use, availability of input data, and output data format. The input and output components of all models are listed, and differences in model physics…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): 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, biomass burning, dispersion, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team
This is a user's manual for VSMOKE, a computer program for predicting the smoke and dry weather visibility impact of a single prescribed fire at several downwind locations. VSMOKE is a FORTRAN 77 program that depends on the input in file VSMOKE.IPT to generate output in file…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
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: computer models, visibility, VSMOKE
We begin our study of wildland fire with the basic principles and mechanisms of the combustion process-fire fundamentals. In the next chapter we look at wildland fire as an event. Fire behavior is what a fire does, the dynamics of the fire event. In later chapters we move up the…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: BEHAVE, fire intensity, fire weather, fuel load, fuel moisture, atmospheric stability, drought, extreme fire behavior, fire environment, fire growth, fire spread, fuel classification, wind