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Fire behavior video from the 2013 Rim Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Stanislaus National Forest, California, Tuolumne County, light wind, surface fire, moderate severity fire, unburned, plantation, activity fuels, 2013 Rim Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2013 Rim Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Stanislaus National Forest, California, Tuolumne County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, unburned, plantation, activity fuels, 2013 Rim Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2013 Rim Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Stanislaus National Forest, California, Tuolumne County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, unburned, plantation, activity fuels, 2013 Rim Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2013 Rim Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Stanislaus National Forest, California, Tuolumne County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, unburned, plantation, activity fuels, 2013 Rim Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2013 Rim Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Yosemite National Park, California, Tuolumne County, light wind, low rate of spread, surface fire, low severity fire, unburned, burnout operation, unmanaged fuels, 2013 Rim Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2013 Rim Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Yosemite National Park, California, Tuolumne County, light wind, low rate of spread, surface fire, low severity fire, unburned, burnout operation, unmanaged fuels, 2013 Rim Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2013 Rim Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Yosemite National Park, California, Tuolumne County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, unburned, burnout operation, prescribed burn, 2013 Rim Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2013 Rim Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Yosemite National Park, California, Tuolumne County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, unburned, burnout operation, prescribed burn, 2013 Rim Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2013 Rim Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Yosemite National Park, California, Tuolumne County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, unburned, burnout operation, prescribed burn, 2013 Rim Fire

This study examines the impact of forest fires on natural biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) and windblown dust emissions over urban areas; specifically over the Athens larger urban zone for the reference year 2008. The area spans a continuum of urban-suburban-wild…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, pollution, wind, Greece, Europe, fire management, smoke management, urban habitats, forest fires, EI - Emission Inventory, windblown dust, BVOC - Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds

From the text...'An inventory or estimate of total statewide (or some other geographically distinct unit) annual emissions of criteria pollutants is a necessary part of understanding the burden on the air resource in an area and taking appropriate control actions. Emission…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, broadcast burning, duff, fire danger rating, fire size, fuel inventory, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, heavy fuels, humus, live fuels, national parks, pollution, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, woody fuels

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will implement new regulations for the management of atmospheric particulate matter 2.5 Fm and less in diameter (PM2.5), tropospheric ozone, and regional haze in the next few years. These three air quality issues relate…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, combustion, education, fire management, gases, health factors, human caused fires, ozone, particulates, pollution, public information, remote sensing, site treatments, smoke management, thinning, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind

Fire effects are modeled for a variety of reasons including: to evaluate risk, to develop treatment prescriptions, to compare management options, and to understand ecosystems. Fire effects modeling may be conducted at a range of temporal and spatial scales. First-order fire…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: combustion, crown scorch, duff, erosion, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fuel inventory, fuel models, heat, mortality, soil temperature, succession, vegetation surveys

The Fire Modeling Institute (FMI) brings the best available fire and fuel science and technology developed throughout the research community to bear in fire-related management issues. Although located within the Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program of the U.S. Forest Service…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: MPB - mountain pine beetle, smoke science research, Fire Modeling Institute

Ground, airborne and spaceborne data were collected for a 450 ha prescribed fire implemented on 18 October 2011 at the Henry W. Coe State Park in California. The integration of various data elements allowed near-coincident active fire retrievals to be estimated. The Autonomous…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: remote sensing, GOES - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, biomass burning, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, airborne scanner

We report trace-gas emission factors from three pine-understory prescribed fires in South Carolina, US measured during the fall of 2011. The fires were more intense than many prescribed burns because the fuels included mature pine stands not subjected to prescribed fire in…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: longleaf pine, Pinus palustris, South Carolina, smoldering, fourier transform infrared spectroradiometer

Twelve 60-m2 plots were cut and weighed in a clearing at a cattle ranch near Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Aboveground dry weight biomass averaged 369 metric tons (Mg ha−1) (SD=187). This corresponds to ≈483 Mg ha−1 total biomass. Pre- and post-burn aboveground biomass loading was…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass, burning intervals, deforestation, greenhouse gases, tropical forest, Brazil, rainforest, CO2 - carbon dioxide, Amazon, axis, C - carbon, charcoal, cutting, fire management, diameter classes, forest management, gases, human caused fires, litter, livestock, palms, post-fire recovery, sampling, vines, wood

Fire modeling and information system technology play an important supporting role in fuel and fire management. Modeling is used to examine alternative fuel treatment options, project potential ecosystem changes, and assess risk to life and property. Models are also used to…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel models, wildland fire, fire spread, fuel management, air quality, biomass, catastrophic fires, computer program, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire injuries (plants), evolution, fire management, flame length, fuel loading, fuel types, GIS - geographic information system, mineral soil, ignition, rate of spread, remote sensing, mortality, surface fires, season of fire, thinning, water quality, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

Attitudes and policies concerning wildland fire, fire use, and fire management have changed greatly since early European settlers arrived in North America. Active suppression of wildfires accelerated early in the 20th Century, and areas burned dropped dramatically. In recent…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, fire policy, research needs, fuel management, air quality, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire models, fire regimes, fire suppression, fire weather, fuel loading, GIS - geographic information system, fuel moisture, remote sensing, season of fire, site treatments, smoke management, vegetation surveys, wildfires

Filter-based samplers have long been employed by monitoring networks to measure aerosol mass concentrations because they are robust and the collected filters can be used for analysis of speciated mass concentrations. However, filter-based samplers have several disadvantages.…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards, PM2.5 emissions, PM10 emissions, continuous measurements

Space-borne sensors provide the only way to monitor the global distribution and characteristics of fire. Dramatic satellite maps showing fire activity across the entire Earth have been providing a unique picture of fire activity for the last three decades. This chapter…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: satellite remote sensing, flaming, smoldering fires, fire-affected area

Both long duration (>6 h) and high temperature (up to 139 °C) sampling efforts were conducted using ambient air sampling methods to determine if either high volume throughput or higher than ambient air sampling temperatures resulted in loss of target polychlorinated…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, PCDD - polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, PCDF - polychlorinated dibenzofurans, open burning, quality control, air samples

Aerial- and ground-sampled emissions from three prescribed forest burns in the southeastern U.S. were compared to emissions from laboratory open burn tests using biomass from the same locations. A comprehensive array of emissions, including PM2.5, black carbon (BC), brown carbon…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: PM2.5, black carbon, brown carbon, carbon dioxide, VOC - volatile organic compounds, PCDD - polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, PCDF - polychlorinated dibenzofurans, biomass burning

Prescribed fire is one tool used for treating fuels and achieving natural resources objectives in dry mixed conifer forests. However, the use of fire is never straightforward and always contains elements of uncertainty and complexity. The process is far more complex than using…
Person: Battaglia, Jain, Graham
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: fire damage, LANDFIRE, mastication, burn plans, dry mixed-conifer forest, forest change, near miss, fuel loads, fuels treatments, NRFSN - Northern Rockies Fire Science Network

Wildland firefighting presents many hazards to fireline workers, including inhalation exposure to smoke (Sharkey 1998; Reinhardt and Ottmar 1997; Sharkey 1997). Many experienced fireline personnel consider this to be only an inconvenience, occasionally causing acute cases of…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, firefighter safety, smoke effects, firefighter health, smoke exposure, CO - carbon monoxide