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The role of black carbon (BC) soot in the Arctic as an agent of climate warming through forcing/feedback of sea ice/glacier albedo is an uncertainty in need of addressing. In-situ measurements of BC-aerosols and gas byproducts from the FROSTFIRE experiment burn, 8-11 July 1999,…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: black carbon aerosols, climate change, climate warming, deposition, forest, snow, spectral albedo, trajectory model, transport, Frostfire prescribed burn

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on the NASA Terra satellite has been used to monitor aerosol optical thickness (AOT, ?) daily at 10km+10km resolution worldwide since August 2000. This information, together with the locations of active fires…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: remote sensing, aerosols, land cover, NASA land cover, pollution, trend analysis, Africa, photometry, fires, seasonal variations

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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: fire disturbance, greenhouse gas emissions, permafrost

The structure and dynamics of buoyant plumes arising from surface-based heat sources in a vertically sheared ambient atmospheric flow are examined via simulations of a three-dimensional, compressible numerical model. Simple circular heat sources and asymmetric elliptical ring…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: numerical simulation, plumes, circular heat sources, asymmetric elliptical ring heat sources , coherent vortical structures, air quality, convection, ecology, fire intensity, fire management, Florida, smoke behavior, heat, smoke management, statistical analysis, wind, wildfires

In Sept. 2003, a prescribed burn on the Uinta National Forest escaped, costing nearly $3 million to extinguish while choking Utah cities with smoke for a week. When the incident drew harsh criticism from local officials and news media, fire managers worried that prescribed…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: social acceptance, Uinta National Forest, disturbance, education, fire case histories, property damage, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, logging, national forests, natural areas management, escaped prescribed fires, public information, sampling, statistical analysis, thinning, Utah, vegetation surveys, wildfires, wildland fuels

Twenty papers are presented from the conference convened jointly by the International Boreal Forest Research Association and the Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research Program. A further 9 papers will be published in a special issue of Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire, productivity, regeneration, succession, carbon emissions, climate change, disturbance regime, global change, peatland, permafrost

Previous studies of the effects of heating on soil hydrophobicity have been conducted under free availability of oxygen. Under fire, however, soils may be deprived of oxygen due to its consumption at the heat source and inadequate replenishment in the soil. In the present study…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: black carbon, hydrophobicity, soil heating, Australia, water repellency, eucalypt, air quality, C - carbon, combustion, eucalyptus, heat, heat effects, hydrology, national parks, New South Wales, N - nitrogen, O - oxygen, sclerophyll forests, soil management, soil nutrients, soil organic matter, soil temperature, soils, surface fires, Victoria, water, water repellent soils, wildfires

Above-ground biomass (live + dead), was estimated pre- and post-burn in eight types of savanna ecosystem in Roraima, in the extreme northern part of the Brazilian Amazon. The objective was to investigate the stock of pre-burn above-ground carbon and its fate after experimental…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: C - carbon, biomass, cerrado, savannas, Brazil, Amazonia, Amazon, combustion, cover, crowns, ecosystem dynamics, experimental fire, fine fuels, fire exclusion, fire management, fuel management, grasslands, herbaceous vegetation, leaves, litter, particulates, Poaceae, post-fire recovery, range management, season of fire, seedlings, shrubs, size classes, snags, South America, statistical analysis, Venezuela, woody fuels

The classification of savanna fires into headfire and backfire types can in theory help in assessing pollutant emissions to the atmosphere via relative apportionment of the amounts of smouldering and flaming combustion occurring, and is also important when assessing a fire's…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: C - carbon, fire, intensity, radiative energy, global emission budgets

This technical report examines different future scenarios for sequestering carbon and reducing emissions of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) from U.S. forestry and agriculture. Net greenhouse gas mitigation estimates in response to carbon price assumptions are presented for…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: C - carbon, greenhouse gas emissions

The production of residual white ash patches within wildfires represents near-complete combustion of the available fuel and releases a considerable quantity of gases to the atmosphere. These patches are generally produced from combustion of large downed woody debris (LDWD) such…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: C - carbon, remote sensing, burned area, savannas, Africa, DWD - downed woody debris, white ash, Fraxinus americana, Botswana, air quality, ash, biomass, combustion, experimental fire, fire management, fuel loading, gases, ignition, litter, national parks, particulates, range management, snags, South Africa, statistical analysis, surface fires, wildfires, woody fuels, Zambia

There were large interannual variations in burned area in the boreal region (ranging between 3.0 and 23.6x106 ha yr-1) for the period of 1992 and 1995-2003 which resulted in corresponding variations in total carbon and carbon monoxide emissions. We estimated a range of carbon…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: boreal forest, C - carbon, duff consumption, fire severity, wildland fire, boreal region, burned area, carbon emissions, CO - carbon monoxide, trace gas emissions

From introduction: Wildfire is a majoar natural disaster in the United States. In 2002, for example, tens of thousands of wildfires occurred that consumed nearly seven million acres of forest and other land cover (NIFC, 2003). Wildfires contribute to increasing atmospheric CO2…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: C - carbon

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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: C - carbon, pine barrens, New Jersey

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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: C - carbon, fire management, pine barrens, New Jersey

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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Aquatic
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass, bogs, carbon dioxide, Carex, carnivorous plants, community ecology, Czech Republic, Dionaea muscipula, Drosera capillaris, Drosera rotundifolia, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, fire dependent species, marshlands, O - oxygen, Phragmites, Pinguicula, plant ecology, plant growth, plant physiology, regeneration, roots, Sarracenia purpurea, Sarracenia rubra, soil moisture, soil nutrients, sphagnum, water, water uptake, watershed management, aerobic respiration, anaerobic CO2 release, CN--resistant respiration, Dionea, Drosera, Genlisea, Sarracenia, soil anoxia

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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass, Brachypodium ramosum, crown fires, crowns, dead fuels, Europe, fine fuels, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire whirls, France, fuel breaks, fuel management, fuel moisture, gases, ignition, Mediterranean habitats, needles, overstory, O - oxygen, Pinus halepensis, population density, Quercus coccifera , radiation, rate of spread, shrubs, size classes, sloping terrain, statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, temperature, vortices, wildfires, wind, forest fire spread