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Knowledge of temporal changes in the area burned by wildfires is required to understand their influence on global climate change. This paper reviews the primary methods of reconstructing and measuring area burned. The area burned by wildfires is typically reconstructed using…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: age classes, biomass, Canada, charcoal, computer programs, dendrochronology, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire scar analysis, fire size, climate change, heat, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, mosaic, remote sensing, sedimentation, vegetation surveys, wildfires
From the text...'Elimination of the historic pattern of frequent low-intensity fires in ponderosa pine and pine-mixed conifer forests has resulted in major ecological disruptions. Prior to 1900, open stands of large, long-lived, fire-resistant ponderosa pine were typical. These…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: adaptation, coniferous forests, cover, cutting, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, fuel management, low intensity burns, Montana, national forests, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, rural communities, smoke management, trees, wildfires
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 text...'The worst fire season in Mexican history was in 1998. Drought conditions precipitated by a strong El Niño led to unusual fire activity, including crown fires, fire whirls, and rapid spread rates. A total of 14,302 fires burned 2,099,412 acres (849,632 ha) - 3.6…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, bibliographies, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, crown fires, deforestation, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire injuries (humans), fire intensity, fire regimes, fire suppression, fire whirls, firefighting personnel, forage, forest management, fuel loading, fungi, grasslands, grazing, Hilaria mutica, histories, human caused fires, livestock, Mexico, pine forests, Pinus durangensis, Pinus edulis, Pinus engelmannii, Pinus hartwegii, Pinus montezumae, Pinus patula, Pinus rudis, plant diseases, Quercus, regeneration, resprouting, roots, savannas, shrublands, slash and burn, smoke effects, statistical analysis, surface fires, wilderness fire management, wildfires, xeric soils
'Lightning and resulting fires have long been part of the Glacier ecosystem. Much of the natural beauty of the park--the diversity of wildlife and the mosaic of vegetation--has been shaped by fire. If aesthetic quality, represented primarily by naturalness, is to persist in…
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Social Science, Outreach
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, fire case histories, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire suppression, Larix, lightning, lightning caused fires, Montana, mosaic, national parks, Pinus contorta, smoke effects, Smokey Bear program, succession, wildfires, wildlife
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, 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: adaptation, agriculture, air quality, backfires, biomass, blowups, broadcast burning, brush, catastrophic fires, chaparral, coniferous forests, croplands, crown fires, crowns, dead fuels, decay, decomposition, droughts, erosion, experimental fires, fine fuels, fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire protection, fire retardants, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, grasses, grazing, heavy fuels, histories, human caused fires, hunting, Idaho, ignition, incendiary fires, insects, invasive species, land use, leaves, lightning caused fires, live fuels, livestock, logging, minerals, mining, Montana, mortality, national forests, Native Americans, natural resource legislation, needles, New Mexico, overstory, particulates, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, prescribed fires (escaped), private lands, public information, range management, salvage, season of fire, sedimentation, seed dispersal, site treatments, size classes, slash, sloping terrain, Smokey Bear program, soils, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, thinning, trees, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, water quality, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, wind, Wisconsin, woody fuels, Yellowstone National Park, appropriations, Cerro Grande Fire, disaster relief funding, FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency, forest and rangeland health, fuel ladder, glassificatrion, insurance, roles and responsibilities, stewardship, slurry, slurry bombers
From the text ... 'Restoration treatments can be ecologically as well as socially and economically beneficial. ... The fire regime at Girard was largely due to frequent burning by American Indians. ...Seeley Lake shows the importance of questioning the 'naturalness' of a given…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: age classes, catastrophic fires, Cervus elaphus, community ecology, competition, coniferous forests, conifers, crown fires, diameter classes, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, forage, forest fragmentation, forest management, insects, lakes, land management, Larix occidentalis, logging, mammals, Montana, national forests, Native Americans, nongame birds, old growth forests, overstory, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, population density, Pseudotsuga menziesii, raptors, rate of spread, recreation, regeneration, smoke effects, stand characteristics, succession, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: burning intervals, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire regimes, fungi, germination, grasses, microorganisms, needles, pine, Pinus radiata, plant communities, post fire recovery, seedlings, smoke behavior, smoke effects, wildfires
Smoke from biomass fires makes up a substantial portion of global greenhouse gas, aerosol, and black carbon (GHG/A/BC) emissions. Understanding how fuel characteristics and conditions affect fire occurrence and extent, combustion dynamics, and fuel consumption is critical for…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: remote sensing, classification, sampling, scaling
This document provides a list of publications produced by the Rocky Mountain Research Station from January-March, 2011. It includes series publications, science perspectives, journal articles, and other publications. The topics covered include all aspects of forest management.
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: US Forest Service, publications, research publications
Total particulate matter (PM) emissions were estimated for recent fires (1979-1990) and the presettlement period (prior to 1935) in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness (SBW) in Idaho and Montana. Recent period emissions were calculated by 10-day periods for surface fire and crown…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: air quality, fire regimes, Idaho, Montana, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, Abies grandis, coniferous forests, crown fires, fire exclusion, fire management, fire suppression, mountainous terrain, Larix lyallii, Picea engelmannii, pine forests, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, lodgepole pine, chance ignition prescribed fires, presettlement fires, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Douglas-fir, subalpine forests, wilderness fire management
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
C4 photosynthesis had a mid-Tertiary origin that was tied to declining atmospheric CO2, but C4-dominated grasslands did not appear until late Tertiary. According to the 'CO2-threshold' model, these C4 grasslands owe their origin to a further late Miocene decline in CO2 that gave…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: grasslands, photosynthesis, savannas, woodland, miocene, paleosols, biomass, CO2 - carbon dioxide, charcoal, deserts, distribution, disturbance, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fuel loading, fuel moisture, light, lightning caused fires, mesic soils, paleoecology, plant communities, population density, precipitation, range management, temperature, xeric soils, wildfires
Weather and climate have a profound influence on wildland fire ignition potential, fire behavior, and fire severity. Local weather and climate are affected by large-scale patterns of winds over the hemispheres that predispose wildland fuels to fire. The characteristics of…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, fuel moisture, wildland fire, AVHRR - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer, climate change, wind
Wireless sensor networks constitute a powerful technology particularly suitable for environmental monitoring. With regard to wildfires, they enable low-cost fine-grained surveillance of hazardous locations like wildland-urban interfaces. This paper presents work developed during…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: false alarm, fire detection, smoke detection, energy efficiency, artificial vision, smoke behavior, smoke effects, photography, remote sensing, statistical analysis, Spain, fire management, smoke management
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the NASA Earth Observing System Terra and Aqua satellites provides global fire observations of unprecedented quality. This paper presents spatial and temporal distributions of active fires from 2001 and 2002, the…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: diurnal cycle, land cover, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, time series, satellite remote sensing, annual cycle, global fire activity, North America, South America, Africa, agriculture, Asia, Australia, coniferous forests, deciduous forests, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, evergreens, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire management, forest management, gases, climate change, grasslands, herbaceous vegetation, natural areas management, population density, remote sensing, season of fire, savannas, shrublands, temperature, urban habitats, vegetation surveys, wetlands, wildfires
The Fire Behavior Research Work Unit (RWU) of the Intermountain Research Station has been developing the Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS) since 1994. The WFAS will eventually combine the functionality of the current fire-danger rating system (Deeming et al. 1977) and the…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire potential, WFAS - Wildland Fire Assessment System, fire danger rating, climatology, crown fires, fire frequency, fire intensity, fuel moisture, live fuels, Oklahoma, smoke management, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Understanding the trade-offs between short-term and long-term consequences of fire impacts on ecosystems is needed before a comprehensive fuels management program can be implemented nationally. We are evaluating 3 potential trade-off models at 8 locations in major U.S. fuel…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: FETM - Fire Effects Tradeoff Model, fuel treatments, SIMPPLLE - SIMulating Vegetative Patterns and Processes at Landscape scaLEs, VDDT - Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool, landscape modeling, Montana, MAGIS - Multi-resource Analysis and Geographic Information System, Bitterroot National Forest, LANDSUM - LANDscape SUccession Model, air quality, bibliographies, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire size, fire management, fuel management, insects, landscape ecology, logging, national forests, pine forests, plant diseases, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, plant diseases, private lands, rate of spread, Douglas-fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii, regeneration, reproduction, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, shelterwood, size classes, smoke behavior, succession, topography, vegetation surveys, 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…
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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
ANNOTATION: Wildland fire has been an integral part of the landscape of the conterminous United States for millennia. Analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial (~ 200 - 500 yr BP) conditions, using potential natural vegetation, satellite imagery, and ecological fire regime…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire regimes, climate change, emission estimates, biomass burning, pre-industrial conditions, Adenostoma, agriculture, biomass, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chaparral, coastal plain, Appalachian Mountains, coniferous forests, cropland fires, croplands, deserts, ecotones, ecology, everglades, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire regimes, fuel loading, fuel models, grasslands, grazing, habitat types, Juniperus, land use, landscape ecology, logging, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, Pinus clausa, Pinus ponderosa, pocosins, prairie, presettlement fires, Prosopis, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus, remote sensing, rural communities, savannas, scrub, shrub fuels, shrublands, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
ANNOTATION: This paper looks into the carbon sequestering abilities of forests and finds that policies currently in place promote avoidable carbon releases and discourage actions that would actually increase long-term carbon storage. When stand-replacing catastrophic fires move…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: forest management, carbon storage, CO2 - carbon dioxide, carbon offsets, Abies spp., biomass, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, fire case histories, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, low intensity burns, climate change, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, population density, Douglas-fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii, thinning, wildfires
Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, 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, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildland fires, adaptation, mitigation, resilience, information sharing
Changes in the current fire regime would directly affect carbon cycling, land–atmosphere exchanges, and atmospheric composition, and could therefore modulate the ongoing climate warming. We used a coupled climate–carbon model to quantify the effect of major changes in non-…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire regimes, CO2 - carbon dioxide, atmospheric dynamics, fire frequency, air quality, albedo, C - carbon, climate change, remote sensing, temperature, fire management, forest management
'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
An analysis of the spatial and temporal patterns of global burned area with the Daily Tile US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer Pathfinder 8 km Land dataset between 1981 and 2000 is presented. Nine distinct temporal and…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire frequency, burned area, NOAA-AVHRR, principal components analysis, fire patterns, temporal trends, air quality, Asia, biomass, Central America, cover, croplands, deciduous forests, fire management, fire size, grasslands, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, statistical analysis