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Most of the research about the effects of the release of carbon and other chemicals to the atmosphere during forest fires focuses on emissions from crown fires or slash fires in which a high percentage of the fine fuels are burned. However, in many temperate and boreal conifer…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forest, carbon balance, fire, fire regime, Russia
A First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) was developed to predict the direct consequences of prescribed fire and wildfire. FOFEM computes duff and woody fuel consumption, smoke production, and fire-caused tree mortality for most forest and rangeland types in the United States.…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, tree mortality, duff, fuel consumption, air quality, bibliographies, computer program, cover, cover type, fire danger rating, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management planning, fire models, fuel moisture, mortality, particulates, smoke management, succession, US Forest Service, wildfires
VSMOKE-GIS was developed to help prescribed burners in the national forests of the Southeastern United States visualize smoke dispersion and to plan prescribed burns. Developed for use on workstations, this decision-support system consists of a graphical user interface, written…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: GIS - geographic information system, smoke dispersion, smoke plume, VSMOKE, plume definition, smoke plume parameters, VSMKGS
This paper reviews and summarizes literature about smoke exposure and the resulting adverse health effects among wildland firefighters Many studies have been done on this problem between 1973 and 1995 Overall the data indicate that smoke exposure at wildfires and prescribed…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: fire, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, human health, smoke exposure, occupational exposure
Post-harvest burning of straw and stubble in grass fields is the most valuable cultural practice in grass-seed production in Oregon. Unfortunately, smoke from burning fields sometimes creates a nuisance to others who understandably question the idea. This discussion is presented…
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire, Economics, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, annual plants, chemistry, fertilization, fire hazard reduction, fungi, grasses, grasslands, herbicides, nutrient cycling, Oregon, perennial plants, plant diseases, plant nutrients, rangelands, reproduction, season of fire, seeds, site treatments, smoke management, soil nutrients, temperature, weed control
In this study outputs from four current General Circulation Models (GCMs) were used to project forest fire danger levels in Canada and Russia under a warmer climate. Temperature and precipitation anomalies between 1 x CO2 and 2 x CO2 runs were combined with baseline observed…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire danger, fire regimes, fire severity, fire weather, forest fire, carbon budget, climate change, CO2 - carbon dioxide, intensive forest management, Russia, C - carbon, climatology, fire danger rating, fire management, forest management, precipitation, temperature
Biomass burning, one of the most important global sources of particulate matter, produces both airborne particles that may influence global and regional climate, and particles incorporated into sediments that provide records of past local, regional, and global impacts of biomass…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: combustion, biomass, burning, global change, biomass burning
Smoke produced by vegetation fires consists of a complex mixture of gaseous, liquid, and solid phases. Many particulates are generated during vegetation fires. Crutzen and Andreae (1990) have estimated that global emissions of pyrogenic smoke particles (50-150 Tg yr-l) may…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: fire, atmosphere, global change, biomass burning
Fire is an important ecological factor influencing the structure and function of longleaf pine ecosystems, including forest floor and groundcover nutrient pools and availability, forest to atmosphere interactions, and potential nutrient controls on productivity. However, little…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, biomass, burning intervals, coastal plain, conservation, fire frequency, fire intensity, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, Georgia, ground cover, legumes, litter, longleaf pine, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, nutrients, phosphorus, pine forests, Pinus palustris, season of fire, temperature, wildfires
Global annual NO emissions from soil are of the order of 10 Tg NO-N. This is about half the amount fossil fuel combustion processes contribute to the annual global NOx budget. Reducing the emissions of soil derived NOx requires an understanding of the source of the flux and the…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, air quality, Asia, Central America, chaparral, combustion, Europe, land management, land use, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, savannas, slash and burn, soil management, soil nutrients, soil temperature, soils, South America, temperature, water, wildfires
During the spring and summer of 1994 we monitored soil-atmosphere exchanges of methane and carbon dioxide at upland sites in the Canadian boreal forest near the northern study area (NSA) of the Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS). The effects of fire on methane and carbon…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, C - carbon, black spruce, boreal, CH4 - methane, CO2 - carbon dioxide, gas exchange, Picea mariana