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Post-fire effects assessments are crucial to evaluate the impact of fire on ecosystems. They are helpful in planning post-fire rehabilitation and useful for reducing uncertainties in current wildfire emission estimates. We have used MODIS/ASTER (MASTER) airborne simulator data…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California
Keywords: dNBR - differenced (or delta) Normalized Burn Ratio, burn severity, charcoal, fire severity, char, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, C - carbon, MESMA - Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis, Canyon Fire
Fire emissions and smoke impacts from wildland fire are a growing concern due to increasing fire season severity, dwindling tolerance of smoke by the public, tightening air quality regulations, and their role in climate change issues. Unfortunately, as identified in JFSP RFA…
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Year: 2012
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: model comparison, model evaluation, model assessment, SEMIP - Smoke and Emissions Model Intercomparison Project
New regulations for black carbon (BC) currently under consideration by Congress and the EPA could affect management decisions on wildfires and the ability to conduct prescribed burning. Congressional testimony has suggested various mitigation strategies for Arctic BC including…
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Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Arctic, black carbon, smoke dispersion, smoke transport
Currently stand-level carbon assessments have not included the fraction of biomass converted to black carbon during a fire event. This proposal builds off a current research project evaluating the effects of repeated burning of masticated fuels have on long-term black carbon…
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Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel moisture, black carbon, carbon storage, particle size, masticated fuel treatments
Listen to the experiences and lessons learned from veteran fire management officers regarding prescribed fire and fire use.
Person: McCoy, Elenz, Vergari, Floyd, Dykehouse, Soper, Fay
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: burn plans, contingency plan, escaped fire, escaped prescribed fires, fire use, public information, situational awareness, objectives, lessons learned
Veteran burn bosses share their stories and firsthand insights.
Person: Norman, Buckley, Larsen, Jacobs, McFarland
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: air quality, public opinion, burn boss, burn plans, decision making, escaped fire, flash fuels, risk analysis, wind shift, wind effects, lessons learned
During a wildfire burnout operation in extremely dry fuels, firefighters suddenly observe a massive rotating vertical plume. Unfortunately, the crews who watch it swirl across this ridgeline don't see the plume as an imminent threat to adjoining forces. These people will not…
Person: Keller
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: entrapment, fire shelter deployment, firefighter safety, lookout, plume, situational awareness, firefighter survival, Indians Fire, rotating plume, rotating vertical plume
Fire is frequently applied to many types of ecosystems for land management purposes. Smoke components from these prescribed burns can contribute to exceedances of air quality standards. Impaired air quality can lead to additional regulation of activities that contribute to air…
Person: Blocksome, Watson, Gross, Tapp, Grier
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: air quality, NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards, invasive species, rangeland, smoke management, Kansas, smoke management plan
Bringing both national and regional perspectives to the issues, tools and decisions concerning smoke from wildland fires, this webinar highlighted a range of current perspectives, activities, developments and emerging issues for fire practitioners. Gary Curcio introduced the…
Person: Curcio, Fleegel, Heilman
Year: 2012
Type: Media
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: BlueSky Modeling Framework, HYSPLIT-CheM forecast model, smoke forecasting, WFDSS - Wildland Fire Decision Support System
For several months during 2011, wildfires throughout the Southwest Area and Mexico caused air quality impacts on public health across the region, with significant impacts measured hundreds of miles away from individual wildfires. In order to address the emerging issue, a…
Person: Hall, Irwin
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Social Science
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky Modeling Framework, smoke impacts, smoke management, WFDSS - Wildland Fire Decision Support System, public health, smoke monitoring, community preparedness
Gary L. Achtemeier presented a webinar on predicting the occurrence and transport of smoke-induced dense fog (superfog) which has been implicated in roadway accidents around the nation. The webinar summarizes 20 years of collaboration between land managers in the southeastern U.…
Person: Achtemeier
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke transport, smoke-induced fog, superfog
This webinar will cover two large, multi-region studies of public perceptions of smoke from wildland and prescribed fire funded by the JFSP. A mail/internet survey conducted by the University of Idaho investigated perceptions of urban and rural residents in the northern Rocky…
Person: Toman, Olsen, Hall, Blades
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): California, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: public perception, smoke impacts, smoke management, public involvement processes, community involvement, community-based partnerships, interagency collaboration, public survey
Extreme fire behavior indicates a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes methods of direct control action. One or more of the following is usually involved: high rate of spread, prolific crowning/spotting, presence of fire whirls, and strong convection…
Person: Werth
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire weather, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, extreme fire behavior, spot fires, vortices, smoke plumes, SWFSC - Southwest Fire Science Consortium, fire interactions, fire weather patterns, crown fire dynamics
This study focuses on the identification of ignition characteristics and carbon discharge resulting from combustion of surface fuels vulnerable to forest fire. Four withered surface fuels, including dead leaves and cones of Pinus densiflora, dead leaves of Quercus variabilis,…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire intensity, fuel moisture, ignition, rate of spread, surface fuels, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, cones, leaves, Pinus densiflora, Japanese red pine, Korea, Asia, fire management, forest management, fuel management, carbon emissions, forest fire, Pinus densiflora
Boreal forest fires are an important source of terrestrial carbon emissions, particularly during years of widespread wildfires. Most carbon emission models parameterize wildfire impacts and carbon flux to area burned by fires, therein making the assumption that fires consume a…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: fire regimes, surface fuels, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, cover, fire management, forest management, boreal forests, boreal forest, C - carbon, dNBR - differenced (or delta) Normalized Burn Ratio, NLCD - National Land Cover Database
Fire occurs frequently over wetland, but little is known of its impact on soil carbon variations and carbon mineralization, process that are potentially important in global carbon cycle. To investigate this issue, we have designed and implemented a two-year field campaign to…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, season of fire, wildfires, C - carbon, nutrient cycling, soil nutrients, China, Asia, fire management, soil management, watershed management, wetlands, carbon cycling, soil carbon, wetland, mineralization, microbial biomass carbon
Savanna burning for greenhouse gas abatement presents an opportunity for remote Aboriginal communities of northern Australia to engage with the mainstream economy while fulfilling cultural obligations for (land stewardship. The recently established Tiwi Carbon Study aims to…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: experimental fires, fire frequency, fire intensity, aborigines, air quality, C - carbon, greenhouse gases, CH4 - methane, Northern Territory of Australia, Australia, fire management, forest management, savannas, carbon sequestration, CH4 - methane, N2O - nitrous oxide, Tiwi Islands
Biomass burning (BB) contributes large amounts of black carbon (BC) and particulate organic matter (POM) to the atmosphere and contributes significantly to the earth's radiation balance. BB particles can be a complicated optical system, with scattering and absorption…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: biomass burning, fire case histories, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, organic matter, particulates, Colorado, fire management, forest management, coniferous forests, forest fire, tar balls
This study has assessed the seasonal occurrence of annual vegetation fires and defined inter-seasonally burned area for the different vegetation cover types across Ghana and the northern region of Ghana using 10-year (2001-2010) remote sensing data. These values were used with…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfires, C - carbon, cover, greenhouse gases, nutrients, phosphorus, remote sensing, Ghana, Africa, fire management, forest management, smoke management, savannas, bushfire, land cover, atmospheric nutrient deposition, carbon emissions, soil P loss, food security
This paper examines the economic potential for fire management to provide offsets to carbon markets in the savannas of northern Australia. Long-term field trials in Australia's savannas have quantified greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions abatement resulting from improved fire…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfires, C - carbon, climate change, greenhouse gases, Northern Territory of Australia, Australia, fire management, forest management, savannas, carbon market, climate change mitigation, fire management, greenhouse gas offset, Indigenous fire management
Prescribed fire can potentially reduce carbon emissions from unplanned fires. This potential will differ among ecosystems owing to inherent differences in the efficacy of prescribed burning in reducing unplanned fire activity (or 'leverage', i.e. the reduction in area of…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: fine fuels, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel types, surface fuels, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, climate change, litter, statistical analysis, Eucalyptus spp., Australia, fire management, forest management, fuel management, smoke management, sclerophyll forests
In this study, we investigate the potential of multi-satellite datasets for quantifying the biomass burning emissions from the Himalayan region. A variety of satellite products were used for characterizing fire events including active fire counts, burnt areas, aerosol optical…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, C - carbon, vegetation surveys, Himalayas, India, Asia, fire management, smoke management, vegetation fires, biomass burnt, India
Mean annual biomass burning contributions to the bulk particulate matter (PMX) load were quantified in a southern-European urban environment (Barcelona, Spain) with special attention to typical Mediterranean winter and summer conditions. In spite of the complexity of the local…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, cropland fires, season of fire, wildfires, aerosols, agriculture, air quality, C - carbon, particulates, Spain, Europe, fire management, smoke management, Mediterranean habitats, urban habitats, levoglucosan, frest fire, wildfire, open burning, Agricultural Residue
We used land-cover maps and active fire detection based on satellite imagery to evaluate the rates and spatial distribution of peatland deforestation in Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2010. Over this time period, the proportion of forest cover in the peatlands of Peninsular…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Aquatic
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, cover, deforestation, mosaic, remote sensing, Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sumatra, Asia, fire management, forest management, peatlands, swamps
Landscape fires during the 21st century are expected to change in response to multiple agents of global change. Important controlling factors include climate controls on the length and intensity of the fire season, fuel availability, and fire management, which are already…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire suppression, fuel accumulation, human caused fires, season of fire, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, climate change, population density, statistical analysis, fire adaptations, land use