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Wildfires are starting to increase on a global scale due to a changing climate. These wildfires can destroy everything in their path and impact negatively on the environment, air quality and climate. On the October 28, 2018, a fire broke out in Outeniqua (33.75°S and 23.00°E),…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: South Africa, biomass burning, active fires, CALIPSO, black carbon, burnt area, PM - particulate matter, NDVI - Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, soil moisture, FRP - Fire Radiative Power

Part of the FIRE x FAUNA: Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Effects on Wildlife series sponsored by Forest Service Research and Development Cannabis cultivation and wildfires: Where there’s smoke, there’s smoke, Adam Cummings, Ecologist Wildfires ignitions, costs to wildlife, and…
Person: Cummings, Gabriel, Lake
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: cannabis, wildlife, wildfire, rodenticide, cultivation, Indigenous burning, pyrodiversity, fish, solar radiation, inversion, fisheries, smoke density, AOT - aerosol optical thickness, water temperature

Fire has been a natural feature of the ecosystem for million years. Still, currently fire regimes have been increasingly altered by human activities and climate change, causing economic losses, air pollution, and environmental damage. In Brazil, savannas (locally known as the…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Brazil, cerrado, savanna, frequent fires, plant biomass, climate change, aboveground biomass, carbon emissions, co-existence, fire frequency, management, BEFIRE

Carbonaceous aerosols and gaseous pollutants emitted from wildfires play a crucial role in both the global climate system and regional air quality. Here, using multisource satellite and ground-based observations combined with reanalysis data, we investigate the three-dimensional…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, satellite observations, MERRA - Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, China, aerosols

A presentation delivred to by Caroline Noble to the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Smoke Committee (SmoC) in November 2020. The presentation focuses on the current features of the Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) Version 3.2.2.1. Questions…
Person: Noble
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke, fuels planning, fire modeling, smoke modeling, risk models, DSS - decision support system

Wildfire smoke influences on air quality and atmospheric chemistry have been underscored by the increasing fire prevalence in recent years, and yet, the connection between fire, smoke emissions, and the subsequent transformation of this smoke in the atmosphere remains poorly…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: aerosol, FIREX‐AQ - Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality, remote sensing, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, in situ monitoring, wildfire, satellite observations, gas emissions

Reliable predictions of emissions from wildland fires are a key element of smoke management programs. Emission factors (the amount of pollutants produced per amount of fuel consumed) are used in models to estimate the composition of smoke. Over the past two decades, laboratory…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, air quality, fuel bed, flaming, smoldering, emission factors, wildfire

The 2020 fire season in the western United States (the West) has been staggering: over 2.5 million ha have burned as of 31 September, including over 1.5 million ha in California (3.7% of the state), in part from five of the six largest fires in state history; over 760,000 ha…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: 2020 fire season, climate change, anthropogenic climate change, area burned, fire suppression effects

In 2019 the Canadian Space Agency initiated development of a dedicated wildfire monitoring satellite (WildFireSat) mission. The intent of this mission is to support operational wildfire management, smoke and air quality forecasting, and wildfire carbon emissions reporting. In…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfire management, wildfire, remote sensing, satellite imagery, Canada, design, satellite, wildfire detection, air quality, carbon emissions, user requirements, wildland fire, forest fire, Earth Observation

Some key messages from this webinar: New operational 3D models such as QUIC-Fire, may change how land managers plan for and manage prescribed fire, but they require unique input data about fuels. Representing fuels in 3D adds detail on fuel structure and distribution. This info…
Person: Loudermilk
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: coupled atmosphere-fire model, coupled fire-atmosphere model, QUIC-Fire, fire spread, TLS - Terrestrial Laser Scanning, fuel structure, fuel characteristics, fluid flow, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, fuel loading, leaf litter, 3D fuels

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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aborigines, air quality, fire management, grasslands, human caused fires, land management, recreation, savannas, shrublands, watershed management, wildlife habitat management

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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, Southern, International
Keywords: air quality, Alabama, Beadel, H.L., boreal forests, browse, catastrophic fires, coastal plain, Colinus virginianus, community ecology, competition, coniferous forests, conifers, crown fires, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, European settlement, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, fire suppression, flammability, Florida, forbs, fuel accumulation, fuel types, game birds, grazing, ground cover, habitat types, hardwoods, herbivory, humidity, Komarek, E.V., Sr., land management, Leopold, Aldo, lightning caused fires, Meleagris gallopavo, mosaic, multiple resource management, nitrogen fixation, North Carolina, nutrient cycling, Odocoileus virginianus, organic matter, particulates, pesticides, pine forests, pine, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus rigida, plant communities, plant nutrients, pocosins, pollution, post fire recovery, prehistoric fires, prescribed fires (chance ignition), presettlement fires, recreation, regeneration, reproduction, savannas, scrub, shrublands, shrubs, site treatments, soil erosion, South Carolina, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), Stoddard, H.L., swamps, Tall Timbers Research Station, threatened and endangered species (plants), wetlands, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food plants, wildlife management, wildlife openings, xeric soils, Yellowstone National Park

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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire equipment, firebreaks, Illinois, manuals, Melilotus albus, prairies, season of fire, seed germination, weed control

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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Social Science, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, fire management, forest management, national forests, national parks, post fire recovery, public information, regeneration, wildfires, Yellowstone National Park

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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, Australia, charcoal, distribution, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, fire regimes, fuel accumulation, habitat types, histories, lakes, New Guinea, paleoclimatology, pollen, post fire recovery, precipitation, prehistoric fires, sampling, sedimentation, statistical analysis, swamps

From introduction: The Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) fires of 1988 were, in the words of National Park Service (NPS) publications, the most significant ecological event in the history of the national parks (NPS 1988). Their political consequences may be as far-reaching as their…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, bibliographies, catastrophic fires, community ecology, conservation, dendrochronology, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, European settlement, fire equipment, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, grasslands, human caused fires, Idaho, land management, Leopold, Aldo, lightning caused fires, mammals, Montana, mortality, mosaic, mountains, national forests, national parks, Native Americans, natural areas management, old growth forests, plant communities, post fire recovery, predation, prehistoric fires, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, season of fire, small mammals, smoke effects, soil erosion, species diversity (animals), state forests, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife management, wildlife refuges, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park

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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: backing fires, crown fires, droughts, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire suppression, fire whirls, firebrands, flame length, fuel models, gases, ignition, Michigan, Pinus banksiana, plantations, season of fire, vortices, wildfires, wind

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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, arthropods, ash, birds, Botswana, charcoal, chemistry, community ecology, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire injuries (plants), fire regimes, flammability, fuel moisture, ground cover, habitat conversion, habitat types, hydrology, insects, mammals, mortality, mosaic, peat, peat fires, peatlands, perennial plants, plant communities, plant growth, plant nutrients, post fire recovery, precipitation, reproduction, rivers, seasonal activities, soil nutrients, soil permeability, soils, streamflow, surface fires, swamps, topography, water, wetlands, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food plants

A 1.3 hectare field containing hawthorn and alder was burned in April 1973. Post-burn analysis of 20 hawthorns and 20 alders determined the fire susceptibility of these species. Of those sampled, 80 percent of the trees less than 3 centimeters in basal diameter were killed. The…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Economics
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: age classes, air quality, Alnus rugosa, burning intervals, cover, Crataegus, diameter classes, disturbance, escape cover, fire injuries (plants), firebreaks, fuel moisture, game birds, grasses, grazing, herbicides, invasive species, land management, mortality, New York, old fields, plant growth, post fire recovery, Scirpus, season of fire, seasonal activities, small mammals, smoke effects, Solidago, sprouting, trees, wetlands, wildlife, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management, woody plants

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Year: 1913
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Southern, International
Keywords: aesthetics, agriculture, Appalachian Mountains, balds, Blue Ridge Mountains, Castanea dentata, catastrophic fires, community ecology, cones, crowns, decay, ecosystem dynamics, European settlement, forage, forest management, forestation, fuel accumulation, fuel types, grasses, Great Smoky Mountains, hardwood forests, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, land management, Liriodendron, livestock, logging, moisture, mortality, mountains, multiple resource management, Native Americans, needles, North Carolina, old fields, openings, phenology, pine, Pinus echinata, Pinus virginiana, Quercus montana, season of fire, seasonal activities, water quality, wildfires

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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Southern
Keywords: Abies spp., air quality, arthropods, bark, catastrophic fires, climax vegetation, community ecology, conservation, crown fires, decay, dominance (ecology), ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire control, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, grasses, grasslands, hardwoods, human caused fires, Idaho, ignition, insects, land management, light, lightning caused fires, litter, logging, low intensity burns, Montana, mortality, mosaic, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, old growth forests, organic matter, Picea, pine forests, pine, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, pioneer species, plant communities, plant diseases, plant growth, post fire recovery, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, rate of spread, regeneration, second growth forests, Sequoiadendron giganteum , species diversity (plants), succession, surface fires, understory vegetation, wilderness areas, wildfires

The frequency of forest fires during the past 600 yr was studied on 281 sample plots within boreal forest ecosystems in a river valley in northern Sweden. Fire scars in living and dead trees were used for dating past fires. Before fire suppression started in the 19th century the…
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: Aconitum septentrionale, age classes, agriculture, bark, Betula pubescens, Betula verrucosa, boreal forests, Calluna vulgaris, charcoal, Cladonia, clearcutting, community ecology, coniferous forests, crown fires, dendrochronology, dominance (ecology), ecosystem dynamics, Europe, evolution, fire control, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire regimes, fire resistant plants, fire scar analysis, fire suppression, flammability, forest management, fungi, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, land use, landscape ecology, lichens, lightning caused fires, mortality, mosaic, national forests, overstory, Picea abies, pine forests, pioneer species, plant diseases, plant growth, plant physiology, pollen, Populus, post fire recovery, precipitation, seedlings, shrublands, shrubs, soil nutrients, soils, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, succession, Sweden, topography, Vaccinium myrtillus, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, vegetation surveys, wildfires, windthrows

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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: aerial ignition, arthropods, backfires, catastrophic fires, community ecology, cones, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (animals), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firebreaks, fuel accumulation, grasslands, human caused fires, insects, land management, landscape ecology, Montana, national forests, Pinus contorta, plant communities, post fire recovery, precipitation, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, rate of spread, recreation, reproduction, rural communities, senescence, serotiny, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food habits, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park

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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: ash, catastrophic fires, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firebrands, fuel accumulation, fuel types, human caused fires, land management, Leopold, Aldo, multiple resource management, national parks, natural resource legislation, old growth forests, pine forests, Pinus contorta, post fire recovery, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, rate of spread, wilderness areas, wildfires, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park

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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, archaeological sites, birds, catastrophic fires, chaparral, coniferous forests, eucalyptus, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, grasslands, Gymnogyps californianus, hardwood forests, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, national parks, Native Americans, pine forests, Pinus attenuata, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus radiata, Pinus torreyana, Quercus, scrub, season of fire, Sequoia sempervirens, Sequoiadendron giganteum , soils, water quality, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management