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Studies of the emissions from wildland fires are important for understanding the role of these events in the production, transport, and fate of emitted gases and particulate matter, and, consequently, their impact on atmospheric and ecological processes, and on human health and…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: biomass burning, combustion, fuel selection criteria, wildland fire, wildfire, air quality, public health
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Person: Mass
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: fire weather forecasting, Labor Day Siege Event, wildfires, AQI - Air Quality Index, HDW - Hot-Dry-Windy Index, winds, fuel moisture, fog
Fire behavior video from the 2020 Red Salmon Complex recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Klamath National Forest, California, Siskiyou County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, fire suppression, 2020 Red Salmon Complex
Carbon (C) emissions from wildfires are a key terrestrial–atmosphere interaction that influences global atmospheric composition and climate. Positive feedbacks between climate warming and boreal wildfires are predicted based on top-down controls of fire weather and climate, but…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire severity, fuel availability, C - carbon, carbon emissions, biogeochemistry, forest ecology, ecosystem ecology, carbon pools, SEM - structural equation modeling
This landowner smoke management guidebook was created through a collaboration between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), North Carolina State University, Southern Fire Exchange, Southern Regional Extension Forestry (SREF), and the University of Georgia Warnell School of…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: smoke management, air quality, public health, PM - particulate matter, smoke dispersion, fuel load, O3 - ozone, liability, mitigation
Several studies have separately explored accumulation of the dominant fuels (grass, fine litter (<6 mm diameter) and coarse woody debris (CWD, 6-50 mm diameter)) in north Australian savannas. We report an analysis of two longitudinal datasets describing how these three fuel…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, emissions abatement, fire management, fire regimes, fire seasonality, fuel accumulation, FPC - foliage projective cover, litter fuels, tropical savannas, CWD - coarse woody debris
In this short webinar, RMRS Research Physical Scientist Shawn Urbanski and Fire Ecologist Duncan Lutes will discuss the current state of the science on wildland fire smoke emissions, including pollutants present in smoke, methods for quantifying emission flux, existing datasets…
Person: Urbanski, Lutes
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, fuel consumption, smoke prediction, public health, smoke impacts, emission factor, C - carbon, fuelbed properties, PM2.5, smoldering, flaming combustion, PM - particulate matter
A presentation delivred to by Caroline Noble to the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Smoke Committee (SmoC) in November 2020. The presentation focuses on the current features of the Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) Version 3.2.2.1. Questions…
Person: Noble
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke, fuels planning, fire modeling, smoke modeling, risk models, DSS - decision support system
In order to meet preidentified objectives, prescribed burns are lit under specific conditions to produce desirable results such as favorable plant response, healthy forest and rangeland conditions for grazing and wildlife habitat, silvicultural treatments, indigenous cultural…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: NWFSC - Northwest Fire Science Consortium, pile burning, broadcast burning
Reliable predictions of emissions from wildland fires are a key element of smoke management programs. Emission factors (the amount of pollutants produced per amount of fuel consumed) are used in models to estimate the composition of smoke. Over the past two decades, laboratory…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, air quality, fuel bed, flaming, smoldering, emission factors, wildfire
Investigate West article about the current state of prescribed fire in Washington.
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Washington Prescribed Fire Council, fuels treatments, low-intensity fire, mega fires
The Smoke and Roadway Safety Guide provides wildland fire personnel the tools and methods to effectively plan and forecast for roadway smoke impacts and to monitor, respond to, and mitigate smoke on roadways to reduce the risk to the public and fire personnel.
This publication:…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: NWCG - National Wildfire Coordinating Group, risk management, visibility, roads, roadways, management action points, FMP - Fire Management Plan, EARP - Expanded Assessment for Potential Risk
Emissions from wildland fires strongly influence tropospheric chemistry and climate. Fires emit high levels of trace gases, including semi-volatile and volatile organic compounds (S/VOCs); and primary (directly emitted) particulate matter (PM). During plume evolution, S/VOCs…
Person: Barsanti
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: air quality, health impacts, PM - particulate matter, C - carbon, organic carbon, PM2.5, wildfires, POC - Particulate Organic compound, health effects, climate effects, emission factors, fuel consumption, NMOC - nonmethane organic compounds, chemistry, gas chromatography, FIREX - Fire Influence on Regional and Global Environments Experiment, NEIVA - Nextgen Emissions InVentory expansion of Akagi
Some key messages from this webinar:
New operational 3D models such as QUIC-Fire, may change how land managers plan for and manage prescribed fire, but they require unique input data about fuels.
Representing fuels in 3D adds detail on fuel structure and distribution. This info…
Person: Loudermilk
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: coupled atmosphere-fire model, coupled fire-atmosphere model, QUIC-Fire, fire spread, TLS - Terrestrial Laser Scanning, fuel structure, fuel characteristics, fluid flow, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, fuel loading, leaf litter, 3D fuels
New methods are sketched for determination of pyrolysis and combustion properties used in physical modeling of wildfires involving forest litter. The physical fire models, such as the Fire Dynamic Simulator, can benefit directly from detailed pyrolysis properties such as…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: combustion properties, forest litter, heat release rate, calorimetry, pyrolysis kinetics, cone calorimetry, Pinus palustris, laboratory fires, longleaf pine
Fire behavior video from the 2020 Red Salmon Complex recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Klamath National Forest, California, Siskiyou County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, fire suppression, 2020 Red Salmon Complex
Fire behavior video from the 2020 Red Salmon Complex recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Klamath National Forest, California, Siskiyou County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, fire suppression, 2020 Red Salmon Complex
Fire behavior video from the 2020 Red Salmon Complex recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Klamath National Forest, California, Siskiyou County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, fire suppression, 2020 Red Salmon Complex
Fire behavior video from the 2020 Red Salmon Complex recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Klamath National Forest, California, Siskiyou County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2020 Red Salmon Complex
A tool that is part of the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) providing fire danger forecast up to 10 days in advance, 1-day lightning forecast and near-real time information on active fires, burnt areas and emissions worldwide.
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Year: 2020
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: GWIS - Global Wildfire Information System, fire danger forecasts, lightning, forecasts, remote sensing, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, active fires, burnt area
Previous estimates of greenhouse gas emissions from Australian savanna fires have incorporated on-ground dead wood but ignored standing dead trees. However, research from eucalypt woodlands in southern Queensland has shown that the two pools of dead wood burn at similar rates.…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: burning, dead wood, greenhouse gas emissions, woodland, Australia, carbon stock, fuel loading
THE FIRE AND SMOKE MODEL EVALUATION EXPERIMENT (FASMEE) is a multi-agency effort to provide advanced measurements necessary to evaluate and advance operationally-used fire and smoke modeling systems and their underlying scientific models. The field campaign will be conducted on…
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Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FASMEE - Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment
An understanding of fire behaviour and its impacts on natural ecosystems is essential for developing management strategies, specifically for planning prescribed fires. It is well known that vegetation and microclimate factors are important predictors of fire behaviour. However,…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Brazil, C - carbon, management, microclimate, fire spread, fire intensity
Characterizing pre- and post-fire fuels remains a key challenge for estimating biomass consumption and carbon emissions from wildfires. Airborne laser scanning (ALS) data have demonstrated effectiveness for estimating canopy, and to a lesser degree, surface fuel components at…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Northwest, Southwest
Keywords: airborne lidar, forest biomass, carbon emissions, eastern Cascade Range, Bandelier National Monument, biomass consumption, ALS - Airborne Laser Scanners, Pole Creek Fire, Oregon, Las Conchas Fire, New Mexico, fuel consumption
Smoke emissions from wildland fires contribute to concentrations of atmospheric particulate matter and greenhouse gases, influencing public health and climate. Prediction of emissions is critical for smoke management to mitigate the effects on visibility and air quality. Models…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: prediction interval, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, air quality, CONSUME