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Smoke from both prescribed fires and wildfires can, under certain meteorological conditions, become entrapped within shallow layers of air near the ground at night and get carried to unexpected destinations as a combination of weather systems push air through interlocking ridge-…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Alabama, coastal plain, computer programs, drainage, elevation, field experimental fires, fire management, fire size, Florida, Georgia, land management, light, Maryland, North Carolina, particulates, Piedmont, smoke behavior, smoke management, South Carolina, statistical analysis, temperature, Virginia, wildfires, wind
Combustion of woody material produces and releases water, but the effects of this water on the atmospheric circulation created by a wildfire are rarely recognized, let alone understood. This paper presents observational data and basic physical arguments to support the hypothesis…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Arizona, Canada, combustion, convection, evapotranspiration, fire management, flame length, Florida, fuel moisture, heat, Idaho, Michigan, military lands, Minnesota, moisture, Montana, New York, North Carolina, Ontario, smoke management, South Carolina, statistical analysis, temperature, Washington, water, wildfires, wood chemistry
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Colorado, crown fires, distribution, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire whirls, flame length, Florida, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, GIS, grasses, heat, heavy fuels, humidity, litter, overstory, photography, rate of spread, statistical analysis, surface fires, topography, understory vegetation, wildfires, wind
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, combustion, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, fuel appraisal, fuel management, GIS, season of fire, smoke management, wildfires
Wildfire activity is predicted to increase with global climate change, resulting in longer fire seasons and larger areas burned. The emissions from fires are highly variable owing to differences in fuel, burning conditions and other external environmental factors. The smoke that…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Safety, Weather
Region(s): California, International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, Australia, Victoria, Canada, British Columbia, Indonesia, Asia, Singapore, air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, gases, health factors, hydrocarbons, Hg - mercury, ozone, particulates, fire management, smoke management, boreal forests, peatlands, savannas, tropical forests, Climate Effects on Emissions, forest fires, health impacts, Hg - mercury, particulate matter, smoke production
From the text...'The smokejumper program has always been very innovative, and this really is because the seven Forest Serice smokejumper bases are involved with the development work.'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: fire equipment, fire suppression (aerial), wildfires, Montana, US Forest Service, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'The plan was to parachute two military jumpers from a modified B-17, collect data and equipment from the Soviet ice station, and then extract the equipment and men using the Skyhook system...'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Northwest, International
Keywords: fire equipment, fire suppression (aerial), Arctic, Washington, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'In closing, the para-cargo program is a proven cost-efficient, timely, and safe way to provide meals and suplies to firefighters in the field. Whatever firefighters need on the ground to do their job, they will received it through the para-cargo program.'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: fire suppression (aerial), firefighting personnel, Idaho, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'The mission was the same back then as it is today. The methods, tools, and rules for accomplishing that mission, however, were different back then than those of today.'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: fire equipment, fire suppression (aerial), firefighting personnel, wildfires, New Mexico, education, national forests, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'Smokejumpers come from all over the country and represent a very diverse and well-educated workforce.'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire suppression (aerial), firefighting personnel, wildfires, education, fire management, smoke management
A total number of 20,212 fire hot spots were recorded by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite instrument over Greece during the period 2002-2013. The Fire Radiative Power (FRP) of these events ranged from 10 up to 6000 MW at 1 km resolution, and…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, particulates, remote sensing, Europe, Greece, fire management, smoke management, fire smoke, injection height, Smoke Dispersion Modeling, Firehub
Estimating carbon emissions from wildland fires is complicated by the large variation in both forest fuels and burning conditions across Canada's boreal forest. The potential for using spatial fuel maps to improve wildland fire carbon emission estimates in Canada's National…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: fuel models, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, cover, grasses, stand characteristics, Abies balsamea, balsam fir, Picea glauca, white spruce, Picea mariana, black spruce, Pinus banksiana, jack pine, Pinus contorta, lodgepole pine, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Douglas-fir, Manitoba, Northern Territory of Australia, Saskatchewan, Yukon Territory, Canada, fire management, forest management, boreal forests, coniferous forests, deciduous forests, land cover, fuel consumption
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: biomass, Canada, droughts, fine fuels, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, flammability, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Indonesia, land use, litter, Malaysia, pollution, remote sensing, smoke effects, spot fires, statistical analysis, tropical forests, vegetation surveys, wildfires, fire management, tropical forest management, vegetation fires, forest fires, land fires, hotspots, fire detection
Prescribed burning has been used as a tool throughout history. Native Americans used fire to maintain clearings and encourage the growth of plants for later harvest. Farmers have used fire to revitalize pasture, aid in crop harvest, and maintain fencerows and ditch banks. Forest…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: habitat management, prescribed fire burn plan, prescribed fire planning, smoke management
Science at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has always been large in scale. The depth and breadth of the research conducted here, however, may surprise even many who are engaged in it. Our research programs have a wide geographical and temporal scope, an…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Forest Service, research, research accomplishment report
This document summarizes a study to evaluate the feasibility of using the Fire Effects Tradeoff Model (FETM) to assist in implementing four Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP) policies on fire, described below. This report provides the Fire Emissions Joint Forum (FEJF) with…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FETM - Fire Effects Tradeoff Model, FFE-FVS - Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator, SIMPPLLE - SIMulating Vegetative Patterns and Processes at Landscape scaLEs, VDDT - Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool, landscape model
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar conducted in partnership with the NWCG Smoke Committee, NC State University, the Desert Research Institute, the National Weather Service, and Montgomery Community College. The webinar features researcher Matthew Fearon of the Desert Research…
Person: Fearon, Heffernan
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: mixing height, atmosphere, atmospheric dynamics
'Megafire' events, in which large high-intensity fires propagate over extended periods, can cause both immense damage to the local environment and catastrophic air quality impacts on cities and towns downwind. Increases in extreme events associated with climate change (e.g.,…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire potential, megafires
Southeastern France is the most wildfire prone region of the country, covering 14.7 percent of its land area-entire country, is the region most affected by wildfires, with 55 percent of the total number of fires recorded in the whole country from 2006 to 2008. It is a typical…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: France, fire management, political consequences, social consequences, fire regimes, large fires
Wildfires alter land cover creating changes in dynamic, vegetative, radiative, thermal and hydrological properties of the surface. However, how so drastic changes induced by wildfires and how the age of the burnt scar affect the small and meso-scale atmospheric boundary layer…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Portugal, Mediterranean region, wildfires, water cycle
Persistent high pressure conditions over the European part of Russia during summer 2010 were responsible for an extended period of hot and dry weather, creating favourable conditions for severe wildfires. The chemical transport model SILAM is used to simulate the dispersion of…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Russia, SILAM, MACC - Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate, HARMONIE - Hirlam Aladin Research for Mesoscale Operational Numerical Weather Prediction in Euromed, wildfires, aerosol radiative effects
Narrated presentation describing the Wildland Fire Air Quality Response Program and its capabilities.
Person: Lahm
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, smoke impacts, public health, transportation safety, smoke exposure, public information
Extensive bibliographic list of references on Alaska wildfire from the Geophysical Institute.
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: bibliography
This feasibility study examined whether total backscatter and depolarization measurements from Cloud Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) in combination with sparse surface meteorological data and other information permitted qualitative…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: CALIPSO, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, WRF-Chem, air quality, smoke plume
'First load to the box.' Calmly, but with urgency, these words rolled through the intercom while I was in the loft working on a project for the afternoon. As the alarm sounded through the building, I knew that meant we had a fire call, and without hesitation, I dropped…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smokejumpers, firefighting, wildfires, Arctic, education, fire management, smoke management