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Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, biomass, chemical compounds, distribution, gases, particulates, physics, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, water

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Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: age classes, air quality, bark, biomass, char, combustion, dead fuels, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, heavy fuels, particulates, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires

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Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, carbon dioxide, chemical compounds, gases, hydrocarbons, particulates, pollution, smoke management, statistical analysis, SO2 - sulfur dioxide

Smoke particles absorb much of the thermal radiation from a large fire. This process affects the vertical velocity of the convection column. And it affects fire spread because of the effects of absorption on radiative heating of fuels ahead of the fire. The magnitude of these…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Models, Fuels
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: convection, field experimental fires, fire management, fire size, ignition, Juniperus, Nevada, pine forests, Pinus, radiation, rate of spread, smoke behavior, temperature

'Timberland owners and forest managers have long sought to estimate fuel loading, or tons of fuel per acre, in their prescribed burns because fuel loading is an indicator of fire behavior and effects. It is known to be an important indicator of possible of possible harmful…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: coastal plain, dead fuels, fire management, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, Georgia, litter, live fuels, longleaf pine, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, slash

'We have read the recent review article 'Primary and Secondary Particulates as Pollutants' by P. F. Fennelly with considerable interest, but yet, concern. Our interest is based on an awareness of the need to examine particulate pollution in terms of particle size and chemical…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, experimental fires, fire intensity, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, gases, laboratory fires, litter, particulates, pollution, slash and burn, wildfires

'Control burning of brush is now a common practice in range improvement in California. Frequently, before burning, some or all of the brush is mashed down with mechanical equipment or killed by chemical sprays. To learn how destructive such fires are to wildlife, a study was…
Person:
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: brush, brush fires, Ceanothus, fire protection, firebreaks, forage, fuel types, grass fires, habits and behavior, heat effects, ignition, incendiary fires, mortality, population density, radiation, range management, soils, species diversity (animals), temperature, trapping, water, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, woody plants

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Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: 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, National
Keywords: flame length, photography, smoke behavior, statistical analysis

The dispersion of smoke in the atmosphere was studied during a controlled fire of forest debris. An instrumented aircraft measured smoke density and other parameters in multiple traverses through the smoke plume. The data permitted contour maps of constant smoke density to be…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: elevation, Georgia, pine forests, site treatments, smoke behavior

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Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: Asia, backfires, duff, education, Europe, fire control, fire equipment, fire suppression, firebreaks, litter, moisture, mosses, smoke management, Soviet Union, taiga, USSR, wildfires

Our paper points out certain problems in current predictive methods on which most smoke management programs are based. These problems complicate research efforts to improve predictability of air quality impacts of forest burning. In addition, we offer a hypothesis, based on…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, PM - particulate matter, smoke management, slash fire, burning permits, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, ecology, fire intensity, fire regimes, firing techniques, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel types, gases, herbaceous vegetation, hydrocarbons, mosaic, needles, peat, pollution, slash, statistical analysis, wildfires, wood

General rural and urban air quality levels, periods of open burning, and prevailing weather conditions are reported for Georgia in 1971. Rural and urban levels of suspended particulate matter and benzene soluble extract are compared. 24 hour particulate concentrations averaged…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, agricultural burning, Georgia, PM - particulate matter, agriculture, air temperature, climatology, coastal plain, flatwoods, forest management, particulates, Piedmont, pollution, precipitation, rural communities, sampling, statistical analysis, wildfires, wind

Recent estimates of particulate production from forest fires in the United States have ranged from 500,000 to 54,000,000 tons annually. This has been due partly to disparities in estimates of fuel that is consumed during the combustion process, but more to the choice of emission…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: emission factor, PM - particulate matter

Chemicals from glowing fires in highly decayed conifer logs may be useful for detection of small fires by spectroscopic methods. Two major chemical constituents were tentatively identified as methanol and furfural (2-furaldehyde). Additional materials tentatively identified were…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire detection, methanol, combustion products

A system for predicting and modifying smoke concentrations from prescription fires is introduced. While limited to particulate matter and the more typical southern fuels, the system is for both simple and complex applications. Forestrysmoke constituents, variables affecting…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, carbon dioxide, fuel loading, fuel types, gases, grass fuels, headfires, hydrocarbons, needles, particulates, pine forests, pollution, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, brush, Ilex glabra, litter, Pinus elliottii, Pinus taeda, Serenoa repens

[from the text] To protect a wilderness from fire or not-that was the first debate I remember within the U. S. Forest Service on entering the organization in 1938. The area in question was part of the present Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in Idaho and Montana. Opponents of…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, fire management, forest succession, subalpine fir, Washington, wilderness management, Pasayten Wilderness, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, cover, ecosystem dynamics, fire control, fire frequency, fire regimes, forest management, forest types, fuel accumulation, fuel management, grazing, habitat types, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, landscape ecology, lightning, montane forests, national forests, natural areas management, pollution, regeneration, sampling, subalpine forests, succession, topography, vegetation surveys, wildfires

An experimental project on convective plumes initiated from the ground by an exceptionally powerful artificial heat source has been carried out. The heat source consisted of 97 oil burners releasing a total power of 600 MW. The measuring equipment consisted of a ground network…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: combustion, energy, fuel types, heat, photography, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, temperature, weather observations, wind

This report presents data describing the air quality within 50 km of the Miller Creek experimental block in terms of 24-hour average mass loadings in the atmosphere, some results of the airborne analysis of the combustion products from two typical flights, diffusion analysis of…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northern Rockies, International
Keywords: Abies spp., air quality, Australia, clearcutting, combustion, distribution, duff, field experimental fires, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, Larix occidentalis, logging, Montana, national forests, needles, particulates, photography, Picea, pine, Pseudotsuga menziesii, sampling, size classes, slash, sloping terrain, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, temperature, wildfires

This paper is directed to those interested in emissions from forest fires as they may impact on air quality. There are several different types of forest fires, each with distinct sets of emission characteristics. Emission factors for combustion products vary widely with fire…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, backing fires, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical elements, combustion, evapotranspiration, fire intensity, fire management, flammability, Florida, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, Georgia, hardwood forests, headfires, hydrocarbons, ignition, Ilex glabra, needles, N - nitrogen, organic matter, particulates, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, pollution, residence time, Serenoa repens, smoke behavior, smoke management, water, wildfires

In-flight measurements of the following parameters have been carried out in the smoke from prescribed fires: carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, particulate matter, integrated light scattering coefficient and ultraviolet radiation intensity. One fire (in…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, ash, Australia, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, chemistry, fire intensity, fire management, light, N - nitrogen, ozone, particulates, radiation, sampling, smoke management, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, Victoria, western Australia

The report describes the second year of a continuing study to determine the distribution and fate of nitrogen oxides in the atmosphere. Analytical methods developed in the first year were refined and validated and results from the first year study were reexamined with the aid of…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, chemistry, combustion chambers, distribution, gases, humidity, laboratory fires, Missouri, New York, N - nitrogen, ozone, particulates, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, southern California, temperature, urban habitats, wind

The nitrogen-containing products of smog chamber reactions have been the subject of much controversy. Concern has arisen over nitrogen products because of the almost universally poor nitrogen balance reported for irradiated mixtures of hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides. Some…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: C - carbon, chemistry, combustion chambers, distribution, extractives, flame length, fuel management, fuel models, gases, humidity, hydrocarbons, laboratory fires, N - nitrogen, ozone, particulates, pollution, temperature

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Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: biomass, calcium, conifers, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, forest management, Idaho, magnesium, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, particulates, pine, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus rigida, Pinus sylvestris, plant nutrition, K - potassium, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, smoke effects, sodium, watersheds, wildfires, wind

This report describes the methodology used to develop emission factors for particulates, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons from the burning of street tree leaves. This project was an outgrowth of one carried out for the State of Illinois where leaves from only three species were…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Aesculus hippocastanum, air quality, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, eucalyptus, firing techniques, Fraxinus, Fraxinus nigra, fuel moisture, hydrocarbons, ignition, Illinois, leaves, Liquidambar styraciflua, Liriodendron tulipifera, Magnoliaceae, particulates, Platanus, pollution, Populus deltoides, Robinia pseudoacacia, sampling, Ulmus americana