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Vegetation fires emit a number of air pollutants, thus impacting air quality at local, regional and global scales. One such pollutant is the particulate matter (PM) that is known to trigger adverse health effects. In this study, the CALPUFF/CALMET/MM5 modeling system is employed…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Arizona, Colorado, cropland fires, fire management, fire size, firing techniques, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Mexico, particulates, pollution, range management, rate of spread, remote sensing, wind, agricultural fire, PM - particulate matter, plume dispersion, CALPUFF, CALMET, MM5
CO2 efflux from tropical peat swamp substrates was measured under three different land uses (selectively logged forest, recently burned and cleared forest, and agriculture) in Jambi Province, eastern Sumatra over a six-month period that incorporated parts of both the major wet…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, carbon dioxide, clearcutting, fire management, climate change, Indonesia, land use, logging, peat, peatlands, remote sensing, soil management, soil temperature, soils, Sumatra, temperature, tropical regions, wildfires, greenhouse gas emissions, forest fires, tropical soil respiration
From the text ... 'The use of prescribed fire as a land management tool has deep and ancient roots in south Carolina's heritage, but conducting prescribed burns is becoming increasingly challenging because of a variety of factors, according to the chairman of the South Carolina…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, birds, carnivorous plants, cavity nesting birds, Colinus virginianus, coniferous forests, Dionaea, education, fire dependent species, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire resistant plants, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, game birds, Gopherus polyphemus, grasslands, hardwood forests, hunting, land management, longleaf pine, Picoides borealis, Pinus palustris, post fire recovery, public information, range management, roots, Sarracenia, season of fire, Smokey Bear program, South Carolina, Turkey, wild turkey, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
From the Executive Summary ... 'Over 2,000 wildfires burned 500,000 acres of Florida real estate, most of it between May and mid July, 1998. Although virtually every county was impacted, the fires were concentrated in the northeast quadrant defined by boundaries extending north…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Aphelocoma coerulescens, catastrophic fires, Deeringothamnus rugelii, droughts, education, fire damage (property), Florida, fragmentation, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fungi, Georgia, GIS, habitat suitability, health factors, herbicides, human caused fires, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Leptographium, lightning, lightning caused fires, mortality, national forests, overstory, partial cutting, pine forests, plant diseases, plantations, public information, storms, suppression, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), wildfires, wildlife refuges, BEHAVE, PREDICTORS OF EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR, HOME PROTECTION STRATEGIES, anthropogenic factors
From the text ... 'Longleaf pine trees and wiregrass, which thrive with burning, have been planted in the 150-foot wide medians since 2003. Prescribed fires, forest experts say, help maintain scenic vistas and healthy pine forests. The prescribed burn is the first on a highway…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, Aristida beyrichiana, artificial regeneration, education, fire management, Florida, forest management, general interest, grasses, grasslands, herbicides, hunting, landscape ecology, longleaf pine, mowing, north Florida, pine forests, Pinus palustris, plantations, pollution, public information, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, trees, wildfires, wildlife, FL DOT - Florida Department of Transportation, HIGHWAY MEDIANS
From the text ... 'Once fires are established on the western portion of the Klamath National Forest, the pattern becomes a long-term commitment of resources, overhead teams, and expenditures.... When it comes to what to do with the Wooley Fire, there is no shortage of issues and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: fire case histories, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, health factors, ignition, national forests, northern California, public information, rate of spread, smoke effects, threatened and endangered species (animals), wildfires, wildlife habitat management
From the text ... 'A coordinated, interagency effort is required to ensure that fire use programs are implemented in a professional and competent manner.... Fire management is as much a philosophy and attitude toward the land as it is an action program.'
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, land management, public information, smoke management, wildfires
Biomass burning from forest regions and agriculture crop residues can emit substantial amounts of particulate matter and other pollutants into the atmosphere. An inventory of forest, grassland and agricultural burning is important for studies related to global change. This study…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Asia, biomass, broadcast burning, croplands, fire management, gases, climate change, grasslands, India, particulates, range management, remote sensing, statistical analysis, biomass burning, cereal waste, gases and particle emissions, field burning, global change
From the introduction: Let me emphasize that I only claim to speak with authority about the task of restoring fire to the National Forests. Private landowners have their own special problems in using prescribed fire, size of forest tracts, lack of expertise, etc. Before we can…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: eastern forests, fire management, historic fire use, public education, oak forests, prescribed fire program, catastrophic fires, education, fire frequency, fire size, forest management, grasslands, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, Native Americans, public information, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
Historical evidence suggests that great wildfires burning in the Lake States and Canada can affect atmospheric conditions several hundred miles away (Smith 1950; Wexler 1950). Several 'dark' or 'yellow' days, as such events are commonly called, have been recorded, often with…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: fire scars, wildfires, New England, dendrochronology, fire case histories, drought, fire injuries (plants), fire management, Pinus resinosa, precipitation, smoke management, wildfires
Australia is among the most fire-prone of continents. While national fire management policy is focused on irregular and comparatively smaller fires in densely settled southern Australia, this comprehensive assessment of continental-scale fire patterning (1997-2005) derived from…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: remote sensing, AVHRR - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer, fire mapping, greenhouse gas emissions, satellite imagery, Australia, biomass burning, savanna burning, aborigines, air quality, biomass, broadcast burning, distribution, elevation, fire size, fire management, fire frequency, forest management, fuel types, climate change, grasslands, human caused fires, ignition, land use, lightning, lightning caused fires, precipitation, savannas, shrublands, vegetation surveys
The Research and Development (R&D) arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service works at the forefront of science to improve the health and use of our Nation's forests and grasslands. Research has been part of the Forest Service mission since the agency's…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Forest Service, research, research accomplishment report
The research and development (R&D) arm of the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), with approximately 550 researchers in a range of biological, physical, and social science fields, seeks to better understand and describe the complex mechanisms at work in…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Forest Service, research, research accomplishment report
During 2005, the USDA Forest Service celebrated its Centennial, recognizing 100 years of successfully caring for the land and serving people. The Rocky Mountain Research Station has been, and continues to be, an integral part of the Forest Service mission, dating back to the…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: Forest Service, research, Rocky Mountain Research Station
This conference was attended by nearly 450 Forest Service earth scientists representing hydrology, soil science, geology, and air. In addition to active members of the earth science professions, many retired scientists also attended and participated. These 60 peer-reviewed…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Aquatic
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: conferences, earth sciences
The Rocky Mountain Research Station has a long and celebrated legacy of conducting relevant natural resources research throughout the Interior West and beyond. Land managers and planners regularly rely upon our science to help make wise resource decisions. Our niche among…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: Forest Service, research, Rocky Mountain Research Station
The International Association of Wildland Fire sponsored the second Fire Behavior and Fuels conference in Destin, Florida. The conference theme was 'Fire Environment--Innovations, Management, and Policy.' Over 450 attendees participated in presentations on the latest innovations…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, policy, science, wildland fire management, IAWF - International Association of Wildland Fire
Fires contribute substantial emissions of trace gases and particles to the atmosphere. These emissions can impact air quality and even climate. We have developed a modeling framework to estimate the emissions from fires in North and parts of Central America (10-71 degrees N and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, emissions, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, North America, PM - particulate matter, Mexico, agriculture, agricultural fires, CO - carbon monoxide, South America, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, cover, croplands, duff, fire management, fuel loading, gases, grasslands, herbaceous vegetation, overstory, particulates, precipitation, remote sensing, shrubs, smoke management, statistical analysis, wetlands, wildfires
An analysis of the spatial and temporal patterns of global burned area with the Daily Tile US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer Pathfinder 8 km Land dataset between 1981 and 2000 is presented. Nine distinct temporal and…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire frequency, burned area, NOAA-AVHRR, principal components analysis, fire patterns, temporal trends, air quality, Asia, biomass, Central America, cover, croplands, deciduous forests, fire management, fire size, grasslands, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, statistical analysis
Hourly measurements of organic and elemental carbon (OC and EC) in fine particles (PM2.5) were conducted at an urban site of Incheon, Korea, between June 2004 and October 2004, using a Sunset Lab semi-continuous carbon field instrument with a continuous-flow non-dispersive…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Asia, C - carbon, China, Korea, particulates, pollution, remote sensing, sampling, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires, high time resolution, carbonaceous species, MODIS satellite image, forest fires, regional haze
We estimate the contributions from biomass burning (summer wildfires, other fires, residential biofuel, and industrial biofuel) to seasonal and annual aerosol concentrations in the United States. Our approach is to use total carbonaceous (TC) and non-soil potassium (ns-K)…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, biomass burning, C - carbon, coniferous forests, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel management, grasslands, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, Maine, K - potassium, remote sensing, season of fire, shrublands, wildfires, woody fuels, aerosols, wildfires, biomass burning, biofuel, air quality, visibility
Using three sets of satellite data for burned areas together with the tree cover imagery and a biogeochemical component of the Integrated Science Assessment Model (ISAM) the global emissions of CO and associated uncertainties are estimated for the year 2000. The available fuel…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, broadcast burning, C - carbon, cover, croplands, cutting, deciduous forests, decomposition, ecosystem dynamics, evapotranspiration, fertilization, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, grasslands, litter, CH4 - methane, ozone, photosynthesis, remote sensing, savannas, shrublands, soil organic matter, surface fuels, tropical forests, open fire, CO - carbon monoxide, ISAM
Fuel mapping is a complex and often multidisciplinary process, involving remote sensing, ground-based validation, statistical modelling, and knowledge-based systems. The scale and resolution of fuel mapping depend both on objectives and availability of spatial data layers. We…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: Abies magnifica, air quality, Canada, C - carbon, chaparral, coniferous forests, disturbance, fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, fuel types, GIS, histories, Juniperus occidentalis, land use, montane forests, national forests, Oregon, Pinus edulis, Pinus ilicifolia, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus ponderosa, Populus tremuloides, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus kelloggii, remote sensing, shrublands, statistical analysis, Vaccinium, Washington, wildfires, fuelbeds
The present paper proposes an original approach to estimate gaseous and particulate emissions from boreal forest fires based on the Canadian Forest Fire Behaviour Prediction ( FBP) System. The FBP System permits calculation of fuel consumption and rate of spread for individual…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, distribution, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire management, forest management, gases, greenhouse gases, headfires, organic matter, particulates, precipitation, Quebec, rate of spread, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, wildfires, air quality, black carbon, climate change, greenhouse gas, particulate matter
We report measurements and analysis of a boreal forest fire, integrating the effects of greenhouse gases, aerosols, black carbon deposition on snow and sea ice, and postfire changes in surface albedo. The net effect of all agents was to increase radiative forcing during the…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): Alaska, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aerosols, boreal forests, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire management, fire regimes, forest management, gases, climate change, greenhouse gases, ozone, Picea mariana, post fire recovery, precipitation, radiation, statistical analysis, wildfires