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Direct emissions of carbon from Canadian forest fires were estimated for all Canada and for each ecozone for the period 1959-1999. The estimates were based on a database of large fires for the country and calculations of fuel consumption for each fire using the Canadian Forest…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forests, Canada, fuel consumption, carbon emissions, carbon sink, taiga, air quality, arthropods, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, climatology, coniferous forests, crown fires, deciduous forests, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, energy, fire danger rating, fire injuries (animals), fire management, fire size, fire suppression, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel types, gases, insects, particulates, pine forests, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus resinosa, Pinus strobus, post-fire recovery, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Douglas-fir, season of fire, statistical analysis, succession, wildfires
Biomass consumption and carbon release rates during the process of forest clearing by fire in five test plots are presented and discussed. The experiments were conducted at the Caiabi Farm, near the town of Alta Floresta, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, in five square plots of 1…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass consumption, carbon release, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, Brazil
Smoke from both prescribed fires and wildfires can, under certain meteorological conditions, become entrapped within shallow layers of air near the ground at night and get carried to unexpected destinations as a combination of weather systems push air through interlocking ridge-…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: drift smoke, smoke behavior, visibility, drainage winds, nocturnal smoke, smoke entrapment
A total area of 26,669 km2 (6.59 million acres) burned from forest fires in Alaska during the summer of 2004, setting a new record in the 50-year database. The unusually warm and dry weather was a predominant factor for the wildfire season in which it was the warmest on record…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: air quality, fire weather, particulates, 2004 fire season, climatology, drought, forest fires
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: Siberia
Wildland fire emission is an important source for PM2.5 and ozone precursors that cause air quality degradation in the Southeast. To evaluate the air quality effects of fires, especially prescribed burning, in this region, the Southern Smoke Simulation System (SHRMC-4S) has been…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Georgia, PM - particulate matter
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: aerosols, Russia, Siberia
The California and Nevada Smoke and Air Committee (CANSAC) was established to respond to specific needs of federal and state agency fire, smoke and air quality decision-makers in the region. Within the structure, the Desert Research Institute (DRI) Program for Climate, Ecosystem…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: forecast, CANSAC - California and Nevada Smoke and Air Committee
We incorporated prescribed fire emissions from the BlueSky smoke modeling system with SMOKE processing to investigate the impact of episodic fire emissions on regional air quality in the eastern U.S. via the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model. We compared the…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky Modeling Framework
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: pine barrens, New Jersey
The Eastern Area Modeling Consortium (EAMC), established by the U.S. National Fire Plan (NFP) in 2001, is a multi-agency coalition of researchers, fire managers, air-quality managers, and natural resource managers at the Federal, State, and local levels whose mission is to…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, fire management, fire models, fuel management, fuel moisture, GIS - geographic information system, hardwood forest, National Fire Plan, particulates, pine barrens, pine forests, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, smoke behavior, wildfires
Burned area is one of the major fire properties for estimating fire emissions. This property can be efficiently identified using satellite remote sensing because of the significant vegetation changes caused by burning. NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) is the most…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: remote sensing, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: air quality, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: air quality, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, forecasting, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
Biomass burning is an important source of many atmospheric trace gases and aerosol particles. Quantitative characterization of biomass burning emissions is critical for modeling atmospheric chemistry and assessing the impact of fires on air quality, tropospheric ozone chemistry…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International
Keywords: Canada, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, Mexico, trace gas emissions, biomass burning, aerosol particles
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: air quality, biomass burning, plume dispersion
Reports the findings of a study comparing the results of instruments measuring smoke particulate in real time to gravimetric samplers in Missoula and Hamilton, Montana, during the summer of 2000. Real-time, particulate monitoring instruments were evaluated to determine their…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: air quality, Montana, nephelometers, real time, sampling, smoke management
The National Wildfire Coordination Group's (NWCG) Fire Use Working Team has assumed overall responsibility for sponsoring the development and production of this revised Smoke Management Guide for Prescribed and Wildland Fire (the 'Guide'). The Mission Statement for the Fire Use…
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Year: 2001
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: fire, fire management, fire suppression, controlled burning, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, smoke management
The geographic focus of the 'Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration' project (known as the Fuels Synthesis Project) is on the dry forests of the Western United States. Project goals include developing accessible analyses, protocols, and tools; writing peer-reviewed…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: dry forests, fuels management, fuels reduction
Teams of scientific and policy experts identified and evaluated the technical, economic and implementation aspects of mitigation activities, and identified research and data gaps. Agriculture and forestry mitigation alternatives to reduce or offset GHG emissions are appealing…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: forestry, agriculture, greenhouse gases, public policy
This study is an integrated economic assessment of alternative fuels treatments. We examine ecological, economic and financial aspects of alternative fuels treatments paying particular attention to market and non-market costs and benefits, property damage, smoke, air quality,…
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Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel treatments, ecological impacts, public perception
Prolonged drought and historic ditching in the southeastern USA have resulted in wetlands being unusually dry. Fire officials are often concerned that fires in wetlands may lead to extensive smoldering in accumulated organic soils. Many agencies - especially in the Atlantic and…
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Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: wetlands, Florida, Disney Wilderness Preserve
Visibility impairment from regional haze is a significant problem throughout the continental United States. A substantial portion of regional haze is produced by smoke from prescribed and wildland fires. Here we describe the integration of four simulation models, an array of GIS…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, fire, fire regimes, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, haze, regional haze, smoke dispersion, integrated models, prediction models
Oxygenated volatile organic species (oxygenates), including HCOOH, H2CO, CH3OH, HOCH2CHO (hydroxyacetaldehyde), CH3COOH, and C6H5OH, have recently been identified by Fourier transform infrared measurements as a significant component of the direct emissions from biomass…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: biomass combustion, VOC - volatile organic compounds, smoke plume simulations
Soils in equilibrium with a natural forest ecosystem have high carbon (C) density. The ratio of soil:vegetation C density increases with latitude. Land use change, particularly conversion to agricultural ecosystems, depletes the soil C stock. Thus, degraded agricultural soils…
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Year: 2005
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, International, National
Keywords: boreal forest, forest ecosystems, nitrogen dynamics, black spruce, carbon cycle, climate change, elevated atmospheric CO2, fine roots, latitude soils, organic matter, Picea mariana, sequestration, SOC - soil organic carbon