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Problem statement: Forest fires are especially frequent around the Mediterranean Sea basin in the summer period and might be able to release naturally-occurring and man-made radionuclides from plant biomass and inject them into the atmosphere. The impact of this radioactivity on…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: radionuclides, polonium, Mediterranean, radioactivity, forest fires, atmospheric deposition, PM - particulate matter, cigarettes
The risk of hospitalisation from bushfire exposure events in Darwin, Australia, is examined. Several local studies have found evidence for the effects of exposure to bushfire particulates on respiratory and cardiovascular hospital admissions. They have characterised the risk of…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, health factors, particulates, pollution, Northern Territory of Australia, Australia, fire management, forest management, particulates, bush fires, cardiovascular and respiratory hospital admissions, health risk
The ability to predict fuel consumption during fires is essential for a wide range of applications, including estimation of fire effects and fire emissions. This project identified predictors of fuel consumption for the dominant fuel bed components (litter (<0.6-cm diameter…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel models, season of fire, air quality, duff, herbaceous vegetation, lichens, litter, mosses, statistical analysis, Pinus echinata, shortleaf pine, Pinus palustris, longleaf pine, Pinus taeda, loblolly pine, Pebble Hill, Tall Timbers Research Station, Wade Tract, north Florida, Georgia, fire management, forest management, fuel management, old growth forests, pine forests, pine hardwood forests
From the text ... 'The Encyclopedia of Southern fire Science (ESFS) is a web/based resource containing approximately 600 webpages of peer-reviewed fire science knowledge about the southern United States. Much of the information is equally applicable to other regions. Information…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: wildfires, computer networks, computer programs, research, fire management, smoke management
From the text ... 'Wildland fire managers face increasingly steep challenges to meet air quality standards while planning prescribed fire and its inevitable smoke emissions. The goals of sound fire management practices, including fuel load reduction through prescribed burning,…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, fuel loading, low intensity burns, rate of spread, smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, climate change, fire management, land management, smoke management
Emissions from open vegetation fires contribute significantly to global atmospheric dynamics. However, the value of improved quantification of areas burned and knowledge of the composition and structure of biomass fuel is compromised in current emissions modelling and…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: rate of spread, wildfires, air quality, biomass, cellulose, Australia, fire management, range management, atmospheric emissions, competitive thermokinetics, cellulose, bushfire behaviour, wildfire spread, open fires
Forest fires release significant amounts of trace gases and aerosols into the atmosphere. Depending on meteorological conditions, fire emissions can efficiently reduce air quality and visibility, even far away from emission sources. In 2005, an arson forest fire burned nearly…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, rate of spread, smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, gases, CH4 - methane, N - nitrogen, ozone, particulates, pollution, France, fire management, smoke management, Mediterranean habitats, Mediterranean region, off-line coupled model, fire spread, injection height, smoke plume pollutants
Multiple air monitoring campaigns were conducted from 2003 to 2007 during the months of December through April in which time-integrated monitoring of PM2.5 was performed during 55 prescribed burn (PB) events administered under select meteorological conditions. The data were…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire intensity, fire size, ignition, air quality, particulates, statistical analysis, wind, Georgia, South Carolina, fire management, smoke management, air pollution, Generalized Additive Models, mixed-models, particulate matter
The WFR-Chem model can produce valuable smoke emissions and fire spread information along with up to a 72 hour smoke forecast. This model can be used by fire and resouce managers, city and borough personnel and others. Feedback is needed for improved graphics and output.
Person: Steufer
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: aerosols, AFSC - Alaska Fire Science Consortium, smoke forecasting, WRF-Chem, wildfire, pollutants, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, WRF-Fire, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
Wildfires and severe smoke can create dangerous conditions for people, especially those with chronic health conditions. Learn about current wildfires, wildfire smoke conditions, and what you can do to reduce the health effects of wildfire smoke.
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Year: 2012
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Oregon, public health
Plume injection height influences plume transport characteristics, such as range and potential for dilution. We evaluated plume injection height from a predictive wildland fire smoke transport model over the contiguous United States (U.S.) from 2006 to 2008 using satellite-…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, smoke impacts, smoke modeling, aerosol, biomass burning, plume injection height, CALIPSO, MISR - Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer
A method was developed to estimate carbon consumed during wildland fires in interior Alaska based on medium-spatial scale data (60 m cell size) generated on a daily basis. Carbon consumption estimates were developed for 41 fire events in the large fire year of 2004 and 34 fire…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: disturbance, fuel moisture, remote sensing, boreal carbon dynamics, biomass burning, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire size, season of fire, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, GIS - geographic information system, Picea mariana, black spruce, fire management, forest management, boreal forest
As part of a Joint Fire Science Program project, a team of social scientists reviewed existing fire social science literature to develop a targeted synthesis of scientific knowledge on the following questions: 1. What is the public's understanding of fire's role in the ecosystem…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: public acceptance, mitigation, fuels treatments, information sources, responsibility, geographic variation
This paper is the second of two reviewing scientific literature from 100 years of research addressing interactions between the atmosphere and fire behaviour. These papers consider research on the interactions between the fuels burning at any instant and the atmosphere, and the…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: literature review, atmospheric dynamics, convection, vortices, plumes, whirls, crown fires, fire whirls, flame length, wildfires, wind, Portugal, Australia, Greece, Russia, fire management, smoke management
(From text) In the four decades between 1960 and 1999, wildfires in the United States scorched more than 7 million acres in a single year just once. Since 2000? Eight times, with 2012 at 8.8 million acres and still climbing. The annual number of wildfires exceeding 25,000 acres…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, Washington, fire suppression effects
The decision to use prescribed fire for the management of forests is a complex and uncertain process. The interplay of the risks and benefits from prescribed fires creates a high degree of uncertainty in outcomes that can lead to the use of various decision-heuristics, or mental…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: South Carolina, decision making, fire use
The methodology for this assessment explicitly addressed ecosystem disturbances, including human- and naturally caused wildland fires, as required by the EISA legislation (U.S. Congress, 2007; Zhu and others, 2010). As indicated by figure 1.2 in chapter 1 of this report, the…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: climate change, area burned, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, wildfires, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, mitigation, fire management
This assessment was conducted to fulfill the requirements of section 712 of the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 and to improve understanding of carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes in ecosystems of the Western United States. The assessment examined carbon…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: climate change, C - carbon, carbon storage, greenhouse gases, flux, sequestration, wildfires
The Prescribed Fire Strategy represents a consensus among representatives of federal and state agencies, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, and the private sector. It focuses on achieving the goals of the Range-wide Conservation Plan for Longleaf Pine, which…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: landowners
Listen to the experiences and lessons learned from veteran fire management officers regarding prescribed fire and fire use.
Person: McCoy, Elenz, Vergari, Floyd, Dykehouse, Soper, Fay
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: burn plans, contingency plan, escaped fire, escaped prescribed fires, fire use, public information, situational awareness, objectives, lessons learned
During a wildfire burnout operation in extremely dry fuels, firefighters suddenly observe a massive rotating vertical plume. Unfortunately, the crews who watch it swirl across this ridgeline don't see the plume as an imminent threat to adjoining forces. These people will not…
Person: Keller
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: entrapment, fire shelter deployment, firefighter safety, lookout, plume, situational awareness, firefighter survival, Indians Fire, rotating plume, rotating vertical plume
For several months during 2011, wildfires throughout the Southwest Area and Mexico caused air quality impacts on public health across the region, with significant impacts measured hundreds of miles away from individual wildfires. In order to address the emerging issue, a…
Person: Hall, Irwin
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Social Science
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky Modeling Framework, smoke impacts, smoke management, WFDSS - Wildland Fire Decision Support System, public health, smoke monitoring, community preparedness
Extreme fire behavior indicates a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes methods of direct control action. One or more of the following is usually involved: high rate of spread, prolific crowning/spotting, presence of fire whirls, and strong convection…
Person: Werth
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire weather, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, extreme fire behavior, spot fires, vortices, smoke plumes, SWFSC - Southwest Fire Science Consortium, fire interactions, fire weather patterns, crown fire dynamics