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From the text ... 'In the summer of 1994, Colorado suffered its worst drought in decades. Severe fire weather was certain to come. On July 2, a major storm hit the State with dry lightning strikes, igniting thousands of wildland fires. Suddenly, the fire blew up. Witnesses at…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: blowups, catastrophic fires, Colorado, crown fires, droughts, fire case histories, fire control, fire injuries (humans), fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, hardwood forests, health factors, herbaceous vegetation, lightning, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, Pinus edulis, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus gambelii, rate of spread, smoke behavior, smoke management, spot fires, topography, vegetation surveys, Washington, wildfires
From the text ... 'This article updates the uses of the fire severity index called the Haines Index (HI). We discuss the original intended use of HI, its current operational use, some ways that users have modified it, and different aspects of HI that researchers are examining to…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: convection, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, flame length, fuel moisture, ignition, rate of spread, smoke behavior, temperature, Washington, wildfires, wind
The results of chemical analyses of precipitation samples collected in Singapore between August 1997 and July 1998 are presented. Major inorganic and organic ions were determined in 169 rain samples collected using an automated wet-only sampler. The daily sample pH values ranged…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, biomass, chemical compounds, chemistry, gases, particulates, pH, precipitation, sampling, season of fire, Singapore, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire damage (property), fire equipment, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, general interest, landscape ecology, liability, logging, National Fire Plan, national forests, national parks, Native Americans, natural resource legislation, presettlement fires, presettlement vegetation, private lands, public information, roads, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, thinning, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires
This paper describes the Oklahoma Fire Danger Model, an operational fire danger rating system for the state of Oklahoma (USA) developed through joint efforts of Oklahoma State University, the University of Oklahoma, and the Fire Sciences Laboratory of the USDA Forest Service in…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: adaptation, fire danger rating, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, GIS, grasslands, land management, live fuels, moisture, Montana, Oklahoma, pine hardwood forests, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke management, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the Summary...'For many projects a simple model often provides as good information as a more complex model. Regulations, however, may dictate the level of modeling required for each project. Other times, community values will determine the level of effort needed to…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, bibliographies, burning permits, CO - carbon monoxide, fire size, fuel loading, fuel types, health factors, particulates, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management
From the Summary...'Managing smoke in ways that prevent serious impact to sensitive areas from single burns or multiple burns occurring simultaneously requires knowledge of the weather conditions that will affect smoke emissions, trajectories, and dispersion. Not only is it…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, bibliographies, biomass, cover, lakes, moisture, sloping terrain, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, storms, temperature, topography, weather observations, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind
From the text...'In summary, the enormous wildland/urban interface and dense road network located in a region where up to six million acres of wildlands per year are subject to prescribed fire combine to make problem smoke the foremost land management-related air quality problem…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, coastal plain, cover type, fire frequency, Florida, Georgia, GIS, Piedmont, pine forests, plant growth, precipitation, roads, rural communities, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, South Carolina, topography, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wind
From the text...'In summary, the physics of light extinction in the atmosphere coupled with the chemical composition and physical size distribution of particles in wildland fire smoke combine to make fire (especially in the West) an important contributor to visibility impairment…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Northwest
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, distribution, light, Montana, national parks, particulates, physics, recreation, smoke management, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management
From the text...'This section discusses the effects of air pollution, especially particulate matter, on human health and morbidity. Wildland fire smoke is discussed as one type of air pollution that can be harmful to public health.'
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, education, health factors, Montana, pollution, public information, smoke management, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text ... 'On the Dude Fire Staff Ride tomorrow, we will retrace the steps of people who were under pressure. Some of those people handled pressure well. Some didn't. For a richer understanding of the Dude Fire, we should focus on what happens when people are overcome by…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Planning, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Southwest
Keywords: Arizona, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire injuries (humans), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, hardwood forests, pine forests, rate of spread, smoke effects, Washington, wildfires
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Acer saccharinum, Betula papyrifera, biogeochemical cycles, biogeography, carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, cover type conversion, distribution, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO, fire adaptations (plants), fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, forest management, fuel moisture, hardwood forests, ignition, insects, land management, land use, landscape ecology, nutrient cycling, Picea engelmannii, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus resinosa, plant diseases, Populus grandidentata, Populus tremuloides, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus alba, Thuja occidentalis, Tsuga heterophylla, Tsuga mertensiana, wildfires
From the text...''Values at stake' is the principle upon which fire safety is based. In the U.S., the highest values at stake are human life and private property, in that order. In wildfire suppression once the values of human life and private property are secure, generally the…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: education, fire damage protection, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, flammability, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, general interest, Georgia, hardwood forests, Louisiana, marshlands, pine forests, plantations, pollution, public information, smoke management, streams, suppression, threatened and endangered species, water, water quality, wildfires
The authors present a finite-difference numerical model of heat flow within a horizontal section of a tree stem. Processes included in the model are solar radiative heating, infrared emission and absorption, convective heat exchange between tree surface and the atmosphere, and…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: stem heating, finite-difference numerical model , solar radiative heating, tree stem heat flow
Attitudes and policies concerning wildland fire, fire use, and fire management have changed greatly since early European settlers arrived in North America. Active suppression of wildfires accelerated early in the 20th Century, and areas burned dropped dramatically. In recent…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, fire policy, research needs, fuel management, air quality, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire models, fire regimes, fire suppression, fire weather, fuel loading, GIS - geographic information system, fuel moisture, remote sensing, season of fire, site treatments, smoke management, vegetation surveys, wildfires
The ventilation climate information system (VCIS) allows users to assess risks to values of air quality and visibility from historical patterns of ventilation conditions. It is available through an interactive, Internet map server. The Internet server allows maps of ventilation…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: database, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, fire weather data, mixing height, ventilation index, wind speed
We have simulated the dynamical evolution of the plume from a prescribed biomass fire, using the active tracer high-resolution atmospheric model (ATHAM). Initialization parameters were set to reflect the conditions during the fire. The model results are compared with airborne…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: biomass burning, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, SCAR-C Smoke, Cloud, and Radiation-C experiment, aerosol transport, aerosol optical properties
Forestry, conservation, wildfire risk reduction, and agricultural uses of planned or prescribed fires as a tool for meeting the needs of wildland managers are increasingly in collision at the air pollution control and climate change cross-roads. The inevitable conflict resulting…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air pollution, clouds, Canada, Ontario, aerosols, air quality, biomass, catastrophic fires, climatology, conservation, fire case histories, fire management, fire weather, firing techniques, land management, particulates, pollution, precipitation, size classes, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wilderness fire management, wildfires
The Encyclopedia of Southern Fire Science (ESFS) synthesizes volumes of scientific knowledge about fire science in the southern United States. ESFS delivers grounded information to field practitioners and the general public with viewer-navigated text, photos, graphics, plus a…
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Year: 2002
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: bibliography, ESFS - Encyclopedia of Southern Fire Science
Direct emissions of carbon from Canadian forest fires were estimated for all Canada and for each ecozone for the period 1959-1999. The estimates were based on a database of large fires for the country and calculations of fuel consumption for each fire using the Canadian Forest…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forests, Canada, fuel consumption, carbon emissions, carbon sink, taiga, air quality, arthropods, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, climatology, coniferous forests, crown fires, deciduous forests, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, energy, fire danger rating, fire injuries (animals), fire management, fire size, fire suppression, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel types, gases, insects, particulates, pine forests, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus resinosa, Pinus strobus, post-fire recovery, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Douglas-fir, season of fire, statistical analysis, succession, wildfires
Although the burning of agricultural residues is not considered a net source of carbon dioxide because the carbon released to the atmosphere is reabsorbed during the next growing season, this burning is a source of net emissions of many trace gases including CH4, CO2, N2O, and…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: agricultural burning, savannas
The success of a fire use program is in large part dependent on a solid foundation set in clear and concise planning. The planning process results in specific goals and measurable objectives for fire application, provides a means of setting priorities, and establishes a…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire use, air quality, backing fire, burning permits, education, fire equipment, fire management, firebreak, firefighting personnel, forest management, fuel management, headfires, ignition, land use, mopping up, liability, multiple resource management, public information, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management
Once smoke enters the atmosphere, its concentration at any one place or time depends on mechanisms of transport and dispersion. By transport, we mean whatever carries a plume vertically or horizontally in the atmosphere. Dispersion simply is the scattering of smoke. Vertical…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildland fire, atmospheric moisture, atmospheric stability, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, lapse rate, smoke dispersion, smoke management, wind
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, coniferous forests, conifers, deciduous forests, disturbance, fire growth, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, firebreaks, forest management, fuel accumulation, gases, health factors, human caused fires, land use, lightning, lightning caused fires, CH4 - methane, wildfires, C - carbon, climate change, Kyoto Protocol, fire suppression and biodiversity
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, biomass, Cascades Range, catastrophic fires, combustion, competition, coniferous forests, convection, crown fires, decay, duff, fine fuels, fire case histories, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire resistant plants, fire whirls, foliage, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, general interest, Great Plains, ground fires, heat, heat effects, human caused fires, Idaho, ignition, insects, lightning caused fires, litter, Montana, mortality, mosaic, overstory, O - oxygen, Picea engelmannii, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, plant growth, prairies, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus, resprouting, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, slash, stand characteristics, surface fires, topography, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind, woody fuels