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Fire products are now available from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) including the only current global daily active fire product. This paper describes the algorithm, the products and the associated validation activities. High-resolution ASTER data,…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, active fires, Africa
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies spp., air quality, Arizona, biomass, catastrophic fires, Colorado, coniferous forests, crown fires, crowns, disturbance, education, environmental impact analysis, environmental impact statements, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, forest management, fuel breaks, fuel management, fuel types, general interest, grasses, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, landscape ecology, logging, low intensity burns, Montana, mortality, mosaic, national forests, national parks, New Mexico, old growth forests, Oregon, overstory, partial cutting, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, prescribed fires (chance ignition), Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, roads, second growth forests, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, site treatments, size classes, slash, surface fuels, thinning, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, annual plants, catastrophic fires, Ceanothus, Centaurea, Colorado, coniferous forests, Cytisus, disturbance, duff, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire case histories, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, fishes, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, general interest, health factors, herbaceous vegetation, Idaho, invasive species, light burning, lightning caused fires, litter, logging, Montana, national forests, national parks, native species (animals), native species (plants), natural resource legislation, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus ponderosa, plant communities, precipitation, riparian habitats, runoff, seedlings, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, shrubs, smoke effects, soil nutrients, soils, streams, surface fires, thinning, water, water quality, water repellent soils, weed control, wildfires, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management, woody fuels
From the text ... 'This article updates the uses of the fire severity index called the Haines Index (HI). We discuss the original intended use of HI, its current operational use, some ways that users have modified it, and different aspects of HI that researchers are examining to…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: convection, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, flame length, fuel moisture, ignition, rate of spread, smoke behavior, temperature, Washington, wildfires, wind
From the text ... 'This article discusses factors that are critical to both firefighters and fire managers in ensuring a safe and productive workforce. First, it discusses such items as the work environment, the firefighter workforce, physical fitness, nutrition, work/rest…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Logistics, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire equipment, fire injuries (humans), fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, health factors, heat effects, mortality, nutrition, smoke effects, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire damage (property), fire equipment, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, general interest, landscape ecology, liability, logging, National Fire Plan, national forests, national parks, Native Americans, natural resource legislation, presettlement fires, presettlement vegetation, private lands, public information, roads, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, thinning, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires
In an effort to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning, renewable energy policies incentivize use of forest biomass as an energy source. Many governments have assumed (legislated) the carbon flux from burning biomass to be neutral because biomass growth sequesters CO2.…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, air quality, biomass, carbon dioxide, biogeochemical cycles, climate change, energy, fire management, forest management, bioenergy, climate change, forestry, life cycle analysis, discounting
From the text: Firefighting, especially smokejumping, is an exercise in outlasting the uncomfortable. I think it has little to do with gender; rather it is each individual's assessment and subsequent reaction to a given situation.'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: firefighting personnel, fire suppression (aerial), wildfires, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'A group of valiant men known as the Triple Nickles, the first African-American smokerjumpers, paved the way for so many in the smokejumping cadre...'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire injuries (humans), fire suppression (aerial), firefighting personnel, wildfires, mortality, fire management, smoke management
From the text ... 'Smoke can be transported hundreds of miles downwind by prevailing winds or convective winds generated by fires themselves with concentrations sufficient to make it the most significant source of air pollution over large areas.'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, climate change, pollution, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'Smokejumpers come from all over the country and represent a very diverse and well-educated workforce.'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire suppression (aerial), firefighting personnel, wildfires, education, fire management, smoke management
From the text ... 'One of the smokejumper program's defining characteristics is its commitment to innovation--a constant refinement of equipment and techniques that hearkens back to the program's earliest days.'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire equipment, fire suppression (aerial), wildfires, fire management, smoke management
Current fire emission inventories apply universal emission factors (EFs) for the calculation of NOx emissions over large biomes such as boreal forest. However, recent satellite-based studies over tropical and subtropical regions have indicated spatio-temporal variations in EFs…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, Asia, Europe, Canada, radiation, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, smoke management, boreal forests, satellite measurements, Tropospheric No2, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, NOx emission factor
We have demonstrated the use of an advanced Gaussian-Process (GP) emulator to estimate wildland fire emissions over a wide range of fuel and atmospheric conditions. The Fire Emission Production Simulator, or FEPS, is used to produce an initial set of emissions data that…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire danger rating, fuel loading, wildfires, fire management, smoke management, fire emission, statistical emulator, simulator, FEPS, emission prediction, Gaussian processes
Past studies suggest that forest fires contribute significantly to the formation of ozone in the troposphere. However, the emissions of ozone precursors from wildfires, and the mechanisms involved in ozone production from boreal fires, are very complicated. Moreover, an…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, air quality, ozone, resprouting, Russia, Siberia, Asia, fire management, forest management, boreal forests
Smog chambers are extensively used to study processes that drive gas and particle evolution in the atmosphere. A limitation of these experiments is that particles and gas-phase species may be lost to chamber walls on shorter timescales than the timescales of the atmospheric…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: atmospheric particles, gas, combustion, secondary organic aerosol
Fires impact atmospheric composition through their emissions, which range from long-lived gases to short-lived gases and aerosols. Effects are typically larger in the tropics and boreal regions but can also be substantial in highly populated areas in the northern mid-latitudes.…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: wildfires, fires, biomass burning, CO - carbon monoxide, O3 - ozone, aerosols, radiative forcing, injection height
A recent study of simulated forecast-based interventions as a tool to reduce the health and economic burden during smoke episodes. The study illustrated a large health burden associated with these events and the potential benefit an adaptation of current forecasting technologies…
Person: Rappold
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke impact, smoke exposure, health impacts, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter
Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a large-eddy simulation (LES) code for low-speed flows, with an emphasis on smoke and heat transport from fires. Smokeview (SMV) is a visualization program used to display the output of FDS and CFAST simulations.
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Year: 2015
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: LES - Large Eddy Simulation, heat transport, FDS - Fire Dynamics Simulator, Smokeview
Biomass combustion is an important primary source of particles with adsorbed biomarker compounds in the global atmosphere. The introduction of natural product organic compounds into smoke occurs primarily by direct volatilization/steam stripping and by thermal alteration based…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, cellulose, chemical compounds, chemistry, combustion, coniferous forests, conifers, hardwood forests, heat effects, hydrocarbons, Larix, lignin, organic matter, particulates, peat, Picea, pine forests, Pinus, pollution, potash, K - potassium, Pseudotsuga, recreation related fires, smoke effects, smoke management, soot, statistical analysis, temperature, Tsuga mertensiana, volatilization, wildfires, woody plants
A likely causal chain is established here that connects humidity in the stratosphere, relative humidity near the tropical tropopause, ice crystal size in towering cumulus clouds, and aerosols associated with tropical biomass burning. The connections are revealed in satellite-…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, biomass, gases, humidity, moisture, ozone, particulates, temperature, water
The authors present a finite-difference numerical model of heat flow within a horizontal section of a tree stem. Processes included in the model are solar radiative heating, infrared emission and absorption, convective heat exchange between tree surface and the atmosphere, and…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: stem heating, finite-difference numerical model , solar radiative heating, tree stem heat flow
The ventilation climate information system (VCIS) allows users to assess risks to values of air quality and visibility from historical patterns of ventilation conditions. It is available through an interactive, Internet map server. The Internet server allows maps of ventilation…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: database, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, fire weather data, mixing height, ventilation index, wind speed
Fires are a major source of gaseous and particulate pollutant, including black carbon (BC). In combination with organic carbon (OC), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), BC from fire emissions causes air quality degradation. BC is also increasingly…
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Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: black carbon, air quality
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar conducted in partnership with the NWCG Smoke Committee, NC State University, the Desert Research Institute, the National Weather Service, and Montgomery Community College. The webinar features researcher Matthew Fearon of the Desert Research…
Person: Fearon, Heffernan
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: mixing height, atmosphere, atmospheric dynamics