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PB-Piedmont, a time-dependent numerical model to simulate and predict smoke movement near the ground at night over terrain characteristic of the Piedmont of the Southeastern United States is undergoing beta testing. During the 2003 winter burn season, the Fish and Wildlife…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: ground fog
Hypotheses of global wildfires following the Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) boundary impact are supported by high concentrations of elemental carbon (3.6 mg cm-2) and soot (1.8 mg cm-2) in DSDP Site 465, which was located several thousand kilometers from potential continental sources…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, paleoecology, particulates, soot, pacific ocean, fire management, smoke management, Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, soot, Impact, extinctions
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Rocky Mountain, Southwest, International
Keywords: air quality, Arizona, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, chaparral, Colorado, combustion, coniferous forests, duff, education, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, hardwood forests, hydrogen, Juniperus, mopping up, New Mexico, O - oxygen, particulates, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, Tsuga, Utah, wildfires
The increasing incidence, extent and severity of uncontrolled burning globally, together with its many adverse consequences, has brought fire into the international environmental policy arena, with growing calls for international action leading to greater control of burning,…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, age classes, air quality, Asia, Australia, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, crown fires, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, fragmentation, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, GIS, grasslands, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, land use, light, Mongolia, peatlands, pollutionpublic information, rainforests, rate of spread, remote sensing, Russia, savannas, season of fire, smoke effects, South America, succession, tropical forests, vegetation surveys, wildfires
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin, International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, Asia, Australia, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, C - carbon, combustion, deserts, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire size, fuel appraisal, fuel loading, grasslands, herbaceous vegetation, litter, mortality, precipitation, remote sensing, seasonal activities, shrublands, South America, statistical analysis, tropical forests, vegetation surveys, wildfires
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, agriculture, Australia, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, computer programs, conservation, cover type conversion, diameter classes, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, eucalyptus, Eucalyptus microtheca, Excoecaria, fire exclusion, fire management, firing techniques, flammability, floods, forbs, grasses, grazing, ground cover, herbaceous vegetation, histories, humidity, ignition, introduced species, invasive species, land management, livestock, mortality, Northern Territory of Australia, photography, plant communities, plant growth, precipitation, range management, savannas, soil moisture, species diversity (plants), vegetation surveys, wetlands, wildfires, woody plants
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Amazon, bark, biomass, Brazil, C - carbon, ENSO, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, forest management, low intensity burns, mortality, plant physiology, post fire recovery, South America, surface fires, trees, tropical forests
Aim: To determine if there is an association between increasing levels of smoke particles and hospital presentations for asthma. Location: Darwin, in the monsoon tropical north of Australia, is uniquely placed to study particulates arising from biomass burning because of (i) a…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, biomass, C - carbon, chemical elements, chemistry, environmental impact analysis, eucalyptus, fire frequency, fire management, fuel types, health factors, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, landscape ecology, Northern Territory of Australia, particulates, pollen, pollution, savannas, smoke effects, smoke management, tropical forests, wildfires
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: bacteria, boreal forests, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, chemistry, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire regimes, fungi, climate change, heat effects, microorganisms, Picea mariana, soils, statistical analysis, temperature
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Abies spp., air quality, Betula pendula, biomass, boreal forests, C - carbon, coniferous forests, cover type conversion, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, fire intensity, forest management, GIS, ground fires, hardwood forests, insects, land use, Larix, mosaic, Picea, pine forests, Pinus sylvestris, plant diseases, Populus tremula, remote sensing, Russia, surface fires, taiga
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, carbon dioxide, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, experimental fires, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, habitat suitability, invertebrates, litter, national parks, N - nitrogen, particulates, plant growth, range management, reptiles, savannas, season of fire, small mammals, soil organic matter, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), S - sulfur, wildlife habitat management
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: age classes, biomass, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, catastrophic fires, chemistry, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, forest management, mosaic, N - nitrogen, pine forests, Pinus contorta, plant growth, population density, post fire recovery, soil management, soil moisture, soil nutrients, soil temperature, stand characteristics, statistical analysis, wildfires, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
The southeastern United States is replete with rich biological diversity in ecosystems ranging from bald cypress bayous and fire-dependent longleaf pine savannas, to high elevation spruce-fir forests. Yet global change will likely impact these systems in numerous ways.…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Appalachian Mountains, bogs, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, community ecology, cover type conversion, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, elevation, everglades, fire frequency, fire regimes, Florida, forest types, climate change, habitat conversion, introduced species, invasive species, longleaf pine, N - nitrogen, North Carolina, Odocoileus virginianus, pH, pine forests, population ecology, precipitation, regeneration, runoff, savannas, soil nutrients, streams, succession, temperature, trees, understory vegetation, wetlands
Flux measurements at sites of mixed hardwood and black spruce stands from an area (C4) of the Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed (CPCRW), interior Alaska, in the summer seasons of 1998, 1999, and 2000 are used to estimate the fluxes of CO2, CH4, and N2O before and after…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: soil respiration, Frostfire, global change, soil chemistry, soil microbes
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor, launched on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Terra satellite at the end of 1999, was designed with 36 spectral channels for a wide array of land, ocean, and atmospheric investigations. MODIS has a…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
Fire is a major disturbance in the boreal forest, and has been shown to release significant amounts of carbon (C) to the atmosphere through combustion. However, less is known about the effects on ecosystems following fire, which include reduced productivity and changes in…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, combustion, decomposition, NDVI - Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, carbon release, primary production, satellite imagery
Forestry management practices can shape patterns of health, illness, and disease. A primary goal for owners federal, state, andprivate forests is to crap ecosystem management plans that simultaneously optimize forest health and human health. Fire-a major forest management issue…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: firefighter safety, human health
A comprehensive evaluation of the vertical structure of a smoldering smoke plume was afforded by a unique combination of tethersonde measurements (from ground level to about 400 m above ground level (AGL) or 274-674 m above sea level (AGL)), lidar sounding (from about 1.5 to 5…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: biomass, emission, Frostfire, particles
Trace gas and particle emissions were measured from 47 laboratory fires burning 16 regionally to globally significant fuel types. Instrumentation included the following: open-path Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry; filter…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: particulates, Indonesia, laboratory fires, Africa, trace gas emissions
We adopt a working definition of residual smoldering combustion (RSC) as biomass combustion that produces emissions that are not lofted by strong fire-induced convection. RSC emissions can be produced for up to several weeks after the passage of a flame front and they are mostly…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: particles, smoldering combustion, trace gas emissions, biomass burning
Fire directly releases carbon (C) to the atmosphere through combustion of biomass. An estimated 1470 +/- 59 km^2 of peatland burns annually in boreal, western Canada, releasing 4.7 +/- 0.6 Tg C to the atmosphere via direct combustion. We quantified within-site variation in…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: Canada, Alberta, biomass combustion, boreal, carbon storage, organic matter, peatlands, bogs
The objective of this study was to quantify carbon (C) distribution for boreal black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) stands comprising a fire chronosequence in northern Manitoba, Canada. The experimental design included seven well-drained (dry) and seven poorly-drained (wet)…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, C - carbon, fire, biomass, black spruce, chronosequence, Manitoba, Alnus crispa, Betula glandulosa, Betula papyrifera, coniferous forests, distribution, disturbance, drainage, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, foliage, forest management, ground cover, heavy fuels, Hylocomium, Larix laricina, Ledum groenlandicum, litter, Manitoba, mosses, overstory, Picea, Picea mariana, Pleurozium schreberi, population density, Populus balsamifera, post-fire recovery, Ptilium, regeneration, roots, Rosa, Salix, seedlings, soils, sphagnum, stand characteristics, statistical analysis, succession, understory vegetation, Vaccinium, vegetation surveys, wildfires, woody fuels, woody plants
In Florida, natural communities require periodic fires for maintenance of their ecological integrity. Because of public concerns, wildfires can no longer be allowed to perform this mandatory function so prescribed burning is essential to manage these plant and animal communities…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Florida, aesthetics, allelopathy, biogeography, burning permits, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, climatology, community ecology, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental impact analysis, European settlement, fire control, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (humans), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire protection, fire suppression, firing techniques, flame length, flatwoods, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, fuel types, herbaceous vegetation, humidity, ignition, incendiary fires, insects, land management, landscape ecology, liability, Native Americans, natural areas management, natural resource legislation, nutrient cycling, pine forests, Pinus palustris, plant communities, plant diseases, population density, post-fire recovery, escaped prescribed fires, private lands, public information, rate of spread, reforestation, scrub, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, state forests, state parks, temperature, US Forest Service, vegetation surveys, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Asia, carbon dioxide, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, forest management, gases, climate change, humidity, India, O - oxygen, precipitation, radiation, season of fire, temperature, wildfires