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In South Australia, Swamps of the Fleurieu Peninsula are critically endangered due to past vegetation clearance and changes in hydrology, but still contain a high diversity of threatened plant species. This vegetation community provides habitat for 82 threatened ground-stratum…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, threatened species, endangered species, seed bank, germination
The multiannual variability of wildfire areas and volumes of emissions of carbon components (CO, CO2) and aerosol (PM2.5) caused by wildfires has been analyzed for the large Russian regions over a 20-year period (from 2001 to 2020) on the basis of satellite monitoring. A…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: satellite monitoring, Russia, remote sensing, wildfires, carbon components of gas, C - carbon, aerosols, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, CO - carbon monoxide, CO2 - carbon dioxide
Background: Brazil has faced two simultaneous problems related to respiratory health: forest fires and the high mortality rate due to COVID-19 pandemics. The Amazon rain forest is one of the Brazilian biomes that suffers the most with fires caused by droughts and illegal…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: COVID-19, Brazil, respiratory disease, K-means analysis, ARIMAX - Auto-regressive Integrated Moving Average Exogenous, time series analysis, SARS-CoV-2, hospitalizations, mortality, incidence rate ratio, air pollution
Accurate quantification of fine fuel loads (e.g. foliage and twigs) in forests is required for many fire behaviour models, and for assessing post-fire changes in carbon stocks and modelling smoke emissions. Fine fuels burn readily and are thus often targeted for fuel load…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass, wildfires, fuel hazard, elevated fuel, dry sclerophyll forest, Australia
In January 2020, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) requested that EPA, in collaboration with scientific staff in the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), conduct an assessment of…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: WFLC - Wildland Fire Leadership Council, air quality, health impacts
Background: We studied the impact of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure due to a remote wildfire event in the Pacific Northwest on daily outpatient respiratory and cardiovascular physician visits during wildfire (24-31 August, 2015) and post-wildfire period (1-30 September…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Calgary, Canada, PM - particulate matter, wildland fires, respiratory morbidity, cardiovascular morbidity, outpatient visits, PM2.5, human health
Developing countries have been recently addressing the respiratory health impact of agricultural burnings with innovative environmental policy. In Acre state, Brazilian Amazon, mechanization is subsidized, enabling smallholders to comply with a cap on burned area. To appraise…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Amazon, cost-benefit analysis, air pollution, health, discrete choice experiment, welfare weighting, Brazil
Over the past decade, western North America glaciers experienced strong mass loss. Regional mass loss during the ablation season is influenced by air temperature, but the importance of other factors such as changes in surface albedo remains uncertain. We examine changes in…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: glaciers, albedo, Canada, Canadian Rockies, British Columbia, Alberta, forest fire aerosols, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, ERA5 temperature, AOD - aerosol optical depth
The 2020 COVID-19 outbreak in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, followed an unprecedented wildfire season that exposed large populations to wildfire smoke. Wildfires release particulate matter (PM), toxic gases and organic and non-organic chemicals that may be associated with…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, bushfires, Bayesian, INLA - integrated nested laplace approximation, altered immune response, population density, wildfire smoke, COVID-19, PM - particulate matter, public health
Fire is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal about the science, policy, and technology of fires and how they interact with communities and the environment, broadly defined, published quarterly online by MDPI. Fire serves as an international forum for diverse…
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Year:
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
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Although accurate estimates of biomass loss during peat fires, and recovery over time, are critical in understanding net peat ecosystem carbon balance, empirical data to inform carbon models are scarce. During the 2019 dry season, fires burned through 133,631 ha of degraded…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Indonesia, emission factor, shrubs, ferns, NDVI - Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, litter, bulk density, peatlands, carbon content, peat depth, C - carbon, Kalimantan
In 2020, the fire season affecting the western United States reached unprecedented levels. The 116 fires active in September consumed nearly 20,822 km2 with eighty percent of this footprint (16,567 km2) from 68 fires occurring within California, Oregon, and Washington. Although…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: birds, energetics, migration, movement, population connectivity, telemetry, wildfire, 2020 fire season, climate change, megafires
Fort McMurray and the Athabasca oil sands region (AOSR) experienced major wildfires in 2016, but the impact of these on regional deposition of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and trace elements has not been reported nor compared to industrial sources of these pollutants…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, Fort McMurray Fire, Athabasca Oil Sands, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, trace elements, sphagnum moss, chemical mass balance receptor model, Alberta, Ontario, Sphagnum fuscum, bogs
Smoke containing biomass burning aerosols (BBA) is emitted intensively from wildfires in Central Africa and transported across the Southeast Atlantic during the dry season, which imposes a notable influence on local radiative forcing and regional climate. To reduce the…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, biomass burning, aircraft measurements, vertical profile, pollutant transport
An unprecedented devastating forest fire occurred in Australia from September 2019 to March 2020. Satellite observations revealed that this rare fire event in Australia destroyed a record amount of more than 202,387 km2 of forest, including 56,471 km2 in eastern Australia, which…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: ocean phytoplankton, aerosol, forest fire, carbon assimilation, Australia
Large wildland fires generate smoke that can compromise air quality over a wide area. Limited studies have suggested that smoke constituents may enter natural water bodies. In an 18-year water monitoring study, we examined whether smoke from distant wildland fires had a…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, water quality, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, Canada, Alberta
In November 2018, the Woolsey Fire burned north of Los Angeles, CA, USA, potentially remobilizing radioactive contaminants at the former Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a shuttered nuclear research facility contaminated by chemical and radiochemical releases. Wildfire in…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: Woolsey Fire, radioactive aerosol, contaminant transport, soils, dust, ash, public health
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the potential for co-occurring wildfires pose health threats to people around the globe. Along with the direct impacts of wildfires, exposure to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5)-pollution composed of small inhalable particles with diameters of 2…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: COVID-19, fine particulate matter, PM2.5, public health
Wildfires in humid tropical forests have become more common in recent years, increasing the rates of tree mortality in forests that have not co-evolved with fire. Estimating carbon emissions from these wildfires is complex. Current approaches rely on estimates of committed…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Amazon, Brazil, CO2 - carbon dioxide, vegetation growth, stem mortality, tree mortality
The 2019–20 Australian mega-bushfires, which raged particularly over New South Wales and Victoria, released large amounts of toxic haze and CO2. Here, we investigate whether the resulting CO2 enhancement can be directly detected by satellite observations, based on National…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, bushfire, megafires, satellite observations, CO2 - carbon dioxide
Forest fires are important natural disturbances that influence accurate estimations of forest carbon budgets, largely owing to the uncertainty of carbon emissions from forest fires. Fuel burning efficiency is an important factor affecting accurate estimations of carbon emissions…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: burning efficiency, carbon emissions, carbon storage, fire severity, forest fires, forest types, Great Xing’an Mountains, environmental factors, China
Wildland fires involve complicated processes that are challenging to represent in chemical transport models. Recent airborne measurements reveal remarkable chemical tomography in fresh wildland fire plumes, which remain yet to be fully explored using models. Here, we present a…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: tomography, plumes, wildfire, wildland fire, chemical transport model, O3 - ozone, HONO - nitrous acid, air quality
In the austral summer period, Dec 7, 2019 to Mar 1, 2020, which included unprecedented bushfire activity, total suspended particulate concentrations of methanesulfonate (MSA), oxalate, labile iron, SO42−, Cl−, Na+, K+, NH4+, water soluble solids (WSS) and water soluble organic…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, Sydney, methanesulfonate, oxalate, bushfires, iron, dust, WSOC - water soluble organic carbon, PM2.5
Objectives: To determine healthcare service utilisation for cardiorespiratory presentations and outpatient salbutamol dispensation associated with 2.5 months of severe, unabating wildfire smoke in Canada’s high subarctic.
Design: A retrospective cohort study using hospital,…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, subarctic, air quality, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, cardiorespiratory disease, human health, wildfire, NWT - Northwest Territories, hospital admissions, asthma, pneumonia
Wildland fire activity and associated emission of particulate matter air pollution is increasing in the United States over the last two decades due primarily to a combination of increased temperature, drought, and historically high forest fuel loading. The regulatory monitoring…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: PM2.5, wildland fire, PM - particulate matter, small form factor sampler, air quality