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Massive wildfires have become more frequent, seriously threatening the Earth’s ecosystems and human societies. Recognizing smoke from forest fires is critical to extinguishing them at an early stage. However, edge devices have low computational accuracy and suboptimal real-time…
Person:
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: China, YOLOv8, lightweight model, smoke detection, SimAmazonia, BiFPN - bidirectional feature pyramid network

Smoke, a byproduct of forest and grassland combustion, holds the key to precise and rapid identification-an essential breakthrough in early wildfire detection, critical for forest and grassland fire monitoring and early warning. To address the scarcity of middle-high-resolution…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: forest fires, grassland fire, smoke segmentation, deep learning, fire detection, China

The impacts on atmospheric ozone (O3) due to wildfires are difficult to characterize due to the many factors that affect O3's formation rate and the episodic nature of fire events. This study uses a very large set of air quality data (518,987 6-hr data points) collected in…
Person:
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: O3 - ozone, Canada, air quality, PM2.5

Global climate change and extreme weather has a profound impact on wildfire, and it is of great importance to explore wildfire patterns in the context of global climate change for wildfire prevention and management. In this paper, a wildfire spatial prediction model based on…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire management, GFED - Global Fire Emissions Database, convolutional neural network, area burned

Air pollution spikes in the central Himalayas' southern regions, including Nepal and northern India, occur mainly from wildfires during March to May. Despite being a significant contributor to pre-monsoon pollution, wildfire smoke remains under-researched. This study used…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, PM2.5, air pollution, Nepal, air quality

Rationale: Wildfires are increasing in intensity, duration, and frequency with smoke plums affecting the lives of millions over large geographic areas. The immune modulatory effects of wildfire smoke are unclear. We previously showed that a major wildfire smoke component, ozone…
Person:
Year: 2024
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, International, National
Keywords: COVID-19, public health, air quality

Bushfires and smoke pose substantial risks to physical and mental health across exposed populations. Enhanced community-level knowledge and response capability may promote exposure reduction and therefore protect health, however few interventions exist to achieve this goal. We…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach
Region(s): International
Keywords: bushfire, air quality, wildfires, health, resilience, online education, Australia

Starting from point sources, wildfire smoke is important in the global aerosol system. The ability to characterize smoke near-source is key to modeling smoke dispersion and predicting air quality. With hemispheric views and 10-min refresh, imagers in Geostationary (GEO) orbit…
Person:
Year: 2024
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, International, National
Keywords: remote sensing, air quality, smoke dispersion, MAS (MODIS Airborne Simulator), FIREX‐AQ - Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality

Climate change and human activity have increased fires in India. Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is released into the atmosphere by stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana and forest fires in the north-eastern and central areas of the country. Accurate short-term PM2.5 estimates…
Person:
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire forecasting, deep learning, air pollution, LSTM - long short-term memory, India, PM2.5, fine particulate matter

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Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, bibliographies, fire management, nutrient cycling, plant communities, wildlife

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Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: boreal forests, Canada, grasslands, Pseudotsuga menziesii, range management, smoke management

That the capacity of global models to predict the future can be well tested by their capacity to reconstruct past events is generally agreed, as is the definition of normal winter as the numerical equivalent of >5x103 degree-days (with the degrees in Fahrenheit). One-…
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Weather, Economics
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, agriculture, Asia, biomass, boreal forests, catastrophic fires, combustion, coniferous forests, crown fires, decay, dendrochronology, droughts, fire case histories, fire injuries (animals), fire intensity, fire management, fire scar analysis, flammability, grasslands, humus, Larix, light, logging, nuclear winter, peat, radiation, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, soot, Soviet Union, taiga, temperature, wildfires

Smoke from raging fires produced in the aftermath of a major nuclear exchange has been predicted to cause large decreases in surface temperatures. However, the extent of the decrease and even the sign of the temperature change depend on how the smoke is distributed with altitude…
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): California, International
Keywords: heat release rate, atmospheric stability, plume rise, wind speed, water vapor, nuclear explosions, smoke injection height

Background: In Western Australia, the issue of bushfires (wildfires) poses a persistent health risk to both volunteer and career forestry firefighters, populations that have been historically understudied.Aims: This descriptive qualitative study aimed to examine firefighters’…
Person:
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Fire Prevention, Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, bushfire, decontamination, firefighters, PPE - Personal Protective Equipment, smoke exposure, social dynamics, socioecological model, volunteer firefighter, wildfires

Background: Tropical savannas represent a large proportion of the area burnt each year globally, with growing evidence that management to curtail fire frequency and intensity in some of these regions can contribute to mitigation of climate change. Approximately 25% of Australia’…
Person:
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, carbon accounting, FullCAM, mortality, litterfall, savannas, standing dead trees

Publisher Summary: Coarse woody debris (CWD) is an important component of temperate stream and forest ecosystems. This chapter reviews the rates at which CWD is added and removed from ecosystems, the biomass found in streams and forests, and many functions that CWD serves. CWD…
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies amabilis, Alabama, Betula, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, Blarina brevicauda, Buprestidae, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, Cascades Range, catastrophic fires, cavity nesting birds, Cerambycidae, chemistry, coastal forests, coniferous forests, decay, deciduous forests, decomposition, diameter classes, Diptera, distribution, disturbance, drainage, ecosystem dynamics, Fagus, fishes, Florida, fragmentation, gases, Georgia, hardwoods, heavy fuels, Hymenoptera, Illinois, Indiana, invertebrates, Larix occidentalis, leaching, Lepidoptera, Liriodendron tulipifera, litter, logging, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, montane forests, mortality, Mustela, New England, nitrogen fixation, North Carolina, North Dakota, nutrient cycling, Oregon, organic matter, O - oxygen, Parus, Peromyscus, Picea, Picea engelmannii, Picea sitchensis, Pinus contorta, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, Populus tremuloides, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus, Quercus prinus, rainforests, riparian habitats, rivers, Scolytidae, sedimentation, Sequoia sempervirens, size classes, sloping terrain, small mammals, snags, Sorex, stand characteristics, streams, temperate forests, Tennessee, Texas, Thuja, tropical forests, Tsuga canadensis, Tsuga heterophylla, Virginia, Washington, water quality, West Virginia, wildfires, windthrows, woody fuels, Zapus

Foliar high heat contents were determined by standard oxygen bomb calorimetry in jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.), black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.), white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss), and balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.) from samples collected in…
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies spp., Abies balsamea, age classes, Alberta, Canada, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, chemistry, combustion, coniferous forests, crown fires, dominance (ecology), foliage, forest management, fuel moisture, heat, hydrogen, laboratory fires, needles, O - oxygen, Picea, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, pine forests, Pinus banksiana, sampling, size classes, statistical analysis