Type
Topic
Region
Year
Displaying 1 - 22 of 22
The revision of FOFEM, a national fire effects model, is described. FOFEM 5.0 will incorporate the predictions of fuel consumption, tree mortality and smoke production along with the addition of soil heating and an updated user interface. The revised version of FOFEM will model…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, Canada, computer programs, cover, cover type, crown fires, fire injuries (plants), fire management, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel management, heat, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, mortality, overstory, soils, surface fires, understory vegetation, BURNUP
A comprehensive investigation of Canadian boreal forest fires was conducted using NOAA-AVHRR imagery. Algorithms were developed to (1) detect active forest fires, (2) map burned areas on daily and annual basis, and (3) estimate fire emissions based on burned area and Canadian…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Alberta, boreal forests, Canada, carbon dioxide, cover, croplands, crown fires, digital data collection, droughts, fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fuel loading, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, grasslands, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Northwest Territories, Ontario, radiation, remote sensing, sampling, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, surface fires, wetlands, boreal forest, burned area, DIGITAL FUEL TYPE, FIRE PIXEL, FIRE DETENTION ALGORITHM, FLOWCHARTS, fuel consumption
Smoke may present the most intractable barrier of all to implementing more enlightened fire management. The benefits of a prescribed fire program can only be realized if the public and regulatory agencies agree that the air quality impacts are acceptable. Currently, land…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, Great Basin, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: air quality, chemical compounds, chemistry, combustion, computer programs, duff, fire management, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, moisture, North Carolina, organic soils, ozone, particulates, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, wind
Understanding the trade-off 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 comparing three vegetation models that may be used to predict the effects of…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Alabama, biogeochemical cycles, catastrophic fires, computer programs, digital data collection, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, Florida, fuel accumulation, fuel appraisal, fuel inventory, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, fuel types, GIS, grasses, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, land use planning, logging, Michigan, Montana, mortality, national parks, New Mexico, overstory, prescribed fires (escaped), rate of spread, recreation, remote sensing, shrubs, smoke management, surface fires, surface fuels, thinning, topography, understory vegetation, Utah, wildfires, wildland fuels, Yosemite National Park, risk assessment
The workshop began with the workshop facilitator, Neil Sampson, summarizing 17 invited papers presented on the opening day of the conference. These papers provided a state-of-the-science overview of pre-selected topics including Overview (3 papers), GIS and Remote Sensing…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, computer programs, erosion, Europe, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fuel appraisal, fuel models, GIS, grasslands, health factors, Idaho, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, landscape ecology, overstory, remote sensing, shrublands, site treatments, smoke effects, soils, South America, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, United Kingdom, decision tools, dissemination of information, GLOBAL STUDIES
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…
Person:
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
The TASET project was funded by the Joint Fire Science Program to develop a structured analysis of smoke management and to recommend specific developments for advancing the state of science in this field. The structured analysis was conducted by determining specific information…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, smoke management, TASET - Technically Advanced Smoke Estimation Tools
Project Objectives: We request support from the JFSP to: 1. adapt FFE-FVS to support fire-related economic analysis by linking FFE-FVS to IASELECT (Wiitala 1992) and CHEAPOII (Horn and others 1986). IASELECT quantifies the optimal economic performance of a fire organization in…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FFE-FVS - Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator, fire suppression, cost-benefit analysis
This paper describes results of FROSTFIRE, a forest fire experiment carried out in July 1999 and also surveys results of the Donnelly Flats forest fire in June 1999 from the point of view of forest fire behavior. An investigation of the Donnelly Flats forest fire site found that…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: combustion, fire management, fuel loadings, Frostfire, air quality, black spruce, boreal forests, CO2 - carbon dioxide, cover, dendrochronology, ecology, experimental fire, fire intensity, fuel management, ignition, lichen moss fuels, lightning, lightning caused fires, mosses, needles, photography, Picea mariana, population density, temperature, trees, wilderness fire management
The forest floor contributes the majority of carbon and nitrogen emitted by boreal forest fires. Therefore, estimates of C and N emissions require characterization of volumetric C and N storage of mature stands. Sampling the forest floor by <5-cm depth increments, we have…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: C - carbon, forest floor, N - nitrogen, air quality, black spruce, boreal forest, ecology, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fuel management, litter, mosses, organic soils, sampling, Picea mariana, smoke management, soil management, stand characteristics, understory vegetation, watersheds, wildfires
If approved, we will deliver to the Joint Fire Science Project a needs analysis and feasibility plan for a national smoke management model including consideration of the current state of the science and emerging technologies (anticipated to be available in three to five years)…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke dispersion, TASET - Technically Advanced Smoke Estimation Tools, needs analysis
This study presents a comprehensive investigation of fires across the Canadian boreal forest zone by means of satellite-based remote sensing. A fire-detection algorithm was designed to monitor fires using daily Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) images. It exploits…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire, forest fire, boreal, boreal forest fire, burning, development, fire detection, measurement, forest fires, forests
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…
Person:
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…
Person:
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…
Person:
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
Description not entered.
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: Canada, Arctic, boreal ecosystem, carbon cycle, climate change, boreal forest, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, lightning caused fires, nutrient cycling, peatlands, tundra, wildfires
In boreal forests, which contain large amounts of the world's terrestrial organic carbon, fire is a natural and fundamental disturbance regime essential in controlling many ecosystem processes. As a result of predicted climate change in the future, the fire regime and,…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, air quality, carbon cycle, carbon release, climate change, biomass, C - carbon, fire management, forest management, climate change, population density, statistical analysis, taiga, wildfires
1 Areas burned annually in the United States between 1700 and 1990 were derived from published estimates of pre-European burning rates and from wildfire statistics of the US Forest Service. Changes in live and dead vegetation following fire and fire exclusion were determined for…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, biomass, C - carbon, chaparral, coniferous forests, croplands, deserts, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, grasslands, habitat conversion, land use, post fire recovery, prairies, presettlement fires, succession, tundra, wildfires, biomass, carbon emissions, carbon sink, carbon storage, fire management, land use change, terrestrial ecosystems
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…
Person:
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
Changes in climatic conditions may influence both forest biomass accumulation rates and natural disturbance regimes. While changes in biomass accumulation of forests under various climatic conditions have been described by yield equations, large uncertainties exist with regard…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Alberta, biomass, Canada, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, catastrophic fires, distribution, disturbance, fine fuels, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, forest management, fragmentation, fuel moisture, climate change, hardwood forests, headfires, landscape ecology, moisture, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Populus tremuloides, rate of spread, season of fire, Sequoiadendron giganteum , sloping terrain, topography, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind
Carbon metabolism of the terrestrial biosphere: a multitechnique approach for improved understanding
Understanding terrestrial carbon metabolism is critical because terrestrial ecosystems play a major role in the global carbon cycle. Furthermore, humans have severely disrupted the carbon cycle in ways that will alter the climate system and directly affect terrestrial metabolism…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, air quality, Asia, biomass, C - carbon, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, climate change, heat, heat effects, remote sensing, sampling, slash and burn, South America, temperature, wildfires
Changes in terrestrial carbon storage in the United States. 1: The roles of agriculture and forestry
Changes in the areas of croplands and pastures, and rates of wood harvest in 7 regions of the USA, including Alaska, were derived from historical statistics for the period 1700-1990. These rates of land-use change were used in a cohort model, together with equations defining the…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: carbon flux, land use, vegetation, carbon accumulation, forest management, soil organic matter, agriculture, air quality, C - carbon, chaparral, coniferous forests, croplands, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire suppression, grasslands, logging, second growth forests, slash, soil nutrients, soils, tillage, tundra, wildfires, wood