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Aerosol particulate matter in the Baltimore metropolitan area: temporal variation over a six-year period

This study investigates the sources of fine particulate matter (aerodynamic diameter £2.5 µm; PM2.5) composition for the Baltimore, Maryland, metropolitan area, covering a 6-year period (2008-2013). Data obtained from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Air Quality…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: biomass burning, season of fire, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, particulates, Maryland, fire management, smoke management, urban habitats

Wildland-urban interface focus: smoke management

(from the text) For this month’s wildland-urban interface (WUI) focus, we asked Joel Carlson, a NAFSE community representative, for the number one publication he references to manage smoke during a prescribed fire in MA and RI. He chose a report published by Wade and Mobley in…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: smoke dispersion, smoke sensitive area (SSA), Lavdas Dispersion Index

Public perceptions of smoke: contrasting tolerance amongst WUI and urban communities in the Interior West and the south-central United States - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Smoke from forest fires can limit forest management actions because of down-wind impacts. Public controversy can result from the vast distances smoke disperses over residential, work, recreation, and transportation areas. Pyne, Andrews, and Laven (1996) aptly describe why fires…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Southern
Keywords: air quality, risk perception, smoke impacts, public perceptions

Characterization of the large fire regime in SE France

Southeastern France is the most wildfire prone region of the country, covering 14.7 percent of its land area-entire country, is the region most affected by wildfires, with 55 percent of the total number of fires recorded in the whole country from 2006 to 2008. It is a typical…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: France, fire management, political consequences, social consequences, fire regimes, large fires

Public Perceptions of Smoke: Contrasting Tolerance amongst WUI and Urban Communities in the Interior West and the Southeastern United States

Wildland fire managers need information about public tolerance for smoke emissions from prescribed and naturally ignited fires. Understanding the factors that contribute to (in)tolerance will help managers anticipate public responses, communicate effectively, and plan fires that…
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Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: air quality, public opinion, CWPP - Community Wildfire Protection Plan, survey, public perceptions, public response