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The objective of this study is to determine the level of support Florida residents ascribe to three alternative fuel reduction techniques given location to recent large-scale wildfire events and differences in ethnicity and/or language. Gaps in knowledge and attitude toward…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fuel reduction, Florida, willingness-to-pay, air quality, ash, bibliography, catastrophic fires, climatology, community ecology, digital data collection, drought, ecosystem dynamics, education, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, fire damage, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire protection, fire regimes, fire suppression, flame length, fuel accumulation, geography, Georgia, health factors, herbicide, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, lightning caused fires, litter, national parks, pine forests, precipitation, private lands, public information, season of fire, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, thinning, wildfires, wind
Visible and infrared (IR) observations of flame structure were made of the Frostfire controlled burn carried out 8-10 July 1999 at the Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed near Fairbanks, Alaska. The observations were taken from Caribou Peak, facing the burn area from the…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: Frostfire, infrared imagery, air quality, boreal forest, ecology, energy, experimental fire, fire intensity, fire management, flame length, photography, rate of spread, remote sensing, soot, temperature, watershed management, watersheds
To guide development of coupled atmosphere-fire models, a suite of instruments was assembled to examine the dynamics of wildfires. Visible and Infrared (IR) imaging and UV through near IR spectral observations were made of the Frostfire prescribed burn carried out 8-10 July 1999…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: atmosphere fire model, Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed, Frostfire, infrared, infrared imaging, visible imaging, wildfire dynamics, UV - ultra violet
With the increasing use of prescribed fire, predicting the potential impacts are becoming more and more important. Of great concern are the effects of smoke on human health and visibility. To help land managers anticipate and plan for potential trajectories and dispersion of…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: climatology, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, mixing height, smoke dispersion, surface wind, wildland areas
The rate and magnitude of emissions from prescribed burns and wildfires in wildland areas throughout the world are related to biomass consumption, which is controlled by total biomass, fuel moisture, fuel distribution (fuel size and arrangement), and ignition pattern.…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest, International
Keywords: heat release rate, biomass consumption, biomass emissions, EPM - Emissions Production Model, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, landuse, Brazil, biomass burning, smoke production
Smoke exposure measurements among firefighters during prescribed burns in the Pacific Northwest between 1991 and 1994 showed that a small but significant percentage of workers experienced exposure to carbon monoxide and respiratory irritant that exceeded occupational exposure…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, duff, fine fuels, fire case histories, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, fuel loading, fuel moisture, gases, health factors, mopping up, particulates, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, toxicity, wind, smoke hazards, firefighters, health effects, pollutants
Emissions of atmospheric pollutants from vegetation fires can greatly affect local and regional air quality. The near real-time information on the magnitude of fires, the amount of pollutants emitted, and their impact on air quality is critical to fire managers* decisions to…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Africa, air quality, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, digital data collection, experimental fires, field experimental fires, fire management, fire regimes, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, moisture, overstory, pollution, remote sensing, understory vegetation, AVHRR - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer, NASA EOS
From the Preface...'Three factors provided the impetus for holding this conference and workshop. First, wildland fire managers are tasked with increasing the emphasis on prescribed fire and other fuel management techniques as part of an effort to reintroduce fire as an important…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Amazon, Canada, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, Colorado, computer programs, Europe, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fuel management, GIS, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, landscape ecology, liability, Mexico, Montana, montane forests, national forests, New Mexico, Oregon, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, prescribed fires (escaped), remote sensing, smoke management, South America, telemetry, water quality, wilderness fire management, wildfires, Yellowstone National Park
The classes of primary chemical products naturally produced by the combustion of forest fuels are: carbon dioxide, water, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, methane and non-methane hydrocarbons, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, nitrogen and sulfur oxides, aldehydes, free…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, arthropods, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, chemistry, combustion, Dendroctonus frontalis, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel types, grasslands, hardwood forests, health factors, herbaceous vegetation, herbicides, humidity, hydrocarbons, insecticides, insects, integrated pest management, land management, litter, logging, CH4 - methane, N - nitrogen, ozone, particulates, pesticides, Piedmont, public information, site treatments, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, S - sulfur, understory vegetation, water, wildfires, wildland fuels, wildlife habitat management, air quality, herbicides, insecticides, pesticides
Biomass burning is a significant regional and global source of gaseous and particulate emissions to the atmosphere. These emissions impact the composition and chemistry of the troposphere and stratosphere and affect the transfer of both incoming solar radiation and outgoing…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forests, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, ozone, PM - particulate matter, biomass burning, N - nitrogen, air quality, China, biomass, broadcast burning, catastrophic fires, charcoal, chemistry, climatology, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, gases, climate change, hydrocarbons, H2 - hydrogen, land use, CH4 - methane, particulates, radiation, Russia, savannas, Siberia, statistical analysis, S - sulfur, tropical forest, woody fuels
We used NOAA-AVHRR satellite imagery, biomass density maps, fuel consumption estimates, and a carbon emission factor to estimate the total carbon (C) emissions from the spring 1998 fires in tropical Mexico. All eight states in southeast Mexico were affected by the wildfires,…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfire, biomass, carbon emissions, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, tropospheric ozone, Mexico, agriculture, air quality, charcoal, C - carbon, Chiapas, climatology, cover, deforestation, digital data collection, distribution, drought, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, evapotranspiration, evergreens, fire injury, fire management, fire management planning, fire size, fire suppression, fragmentation, grasslands, greenhouse gases, habitat conversion, human caused fires, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land use, mortality, photography, overstory, Pinus, plantations, population density, precipitation, Quercus, remote sensing, savannas, storms, tropical forest, understory vegetation, winds