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We have analyzed the soluble portion of impurities trapped in solid precipitation that accumulated at Summit (central Greenland) from 1193 A.D. to the present. Seventy-three ice layers show elevated concentrations of ammonium and formate, caused by high-latitude biomass burning…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History
Region(s): International
Keywords: Greenland, ice cores, biomass burning, ion concentrations, boreal vegetation, paleoclimate
This publication provides guidelines for planning and managing smoke from prescribed fires to:
Minimize ambient air quality impairment.
Prevent smoke from being carried to, or accumulating in, areas sensitive to smoke.
Recommend burning guidelines to supplement the regulations …
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords:
Smoke management program manual that provides an overview for fire management officers, including site inspection expectations and "big league" burn programs.
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords:
We assessed the exposure of rural residents in the small community of Theobroma, Brazil, to the smoke generated from widespread agricultural and forest burning during August and September, 1995. Samples were collected for an 8-day period by using five battery powered personal…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: Brazil, agricultural burning, forest burning, CO - carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, personal aerosol sampling pumps, benzene, respirable particles, biomass burning, Amazon, air quality
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Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, Northwest
Keywords: lightning caused fires, remote sensing
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…
Person:
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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Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, gases, New York, old fields, particulates, smoke management, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, fuel management, Mediterranean habitats, smoke behavior, smoke management, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, carbon dioxide, chemistry, fire hazard reduction, fuel accumulation, fuel types, gases, hydrocarbons, light, ozone, pollution, sampling, season of fire, statistical analysis, swamps, western Australia, wildfires, wind
Multiple trace-gas instruments were deployed during the fourth Fire Lab at Missoula Experiment (FLAME-4), including the first application of proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry (PTR-TOFMS) and comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-time-of-flight…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: biomass burning, FTIR - Fourier transform infrared absorption spectroscopy , laboratory experiments
A presentation recorded at the 7th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress.
Person: Gamble
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Outreach
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Florida, 1998 fire season
From the text...'Two studies recently looked at differences in impacts on National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and visibility from wildland fires (prescribed fire and wildfire). The First Study: was part of the analysis for the Columbia River Basin (CRB) Environmental…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, coniferous forests, fire management, fuel appraisal, fuel management, land management, Oregon, particulates, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, shrublands, smoke management, vegetation surveys, Washington, wildfires, wildlife
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Adenostoma, air quality, amphibians, biogeography, Ceanothus, chaparral, coastal vegetation, community ecology, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire dependent species, fire regimes, fire suppression, fishes, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, grasslands, mammals, Mediterranean habitats, nongame birds, post fire recovery, reptiles, sclerophyll vegetation, small mammals, southern California, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), succession, wading birds, wildfires
Reliable estimates of pre-burn biomass and fuel consumption are important to estimate wildland fire emissions and assist in prescribed burn planning. We present empirical models for predicting fuel consumption in natural fuels from 60 prescribed fires in ponderosa pine-dominated…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest, Southern
Keywords: biomass, fuel consumption, Douglas-fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii, loblolly pine, Pinus taeda, longleaf pine, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, southern pine forests, smoke management, wildland fire
Fire behavior video from the 2017 Pier Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, activity fuels, prescribed burn, 2017 Pier Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2017 Pier Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, activity fuels, prescribed burn, 2017 Pier Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2017 Pier Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, activity fuels, prescribed burn, 2017 Pier Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2017 Pier Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, light wind, low rate of spread, surface fire, high severity fire, low severity fire, unmanaged fuels, 2017 Pier Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2017 Pier Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, light wind, low rate of spread, surface fire, high severity fire, low severity fire, unmanaged fuels, 2017 Pier Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2017 Pier Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, light wind, low rate of spread, surface fire, high severity fire, low severity fire, unmanaged fuels, 2017 Pier Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2017 Pier Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, passive crown fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2017 Pier Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2017 Pier Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, passive crown fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2017 Pier Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2017 Pier Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, passive crown fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2017 Pier Fire
From the text ... 'Forest rangers and residents are trying to promote the benefits of using more prescribed burns to control wildfires throughout the state.... Every landowner wants to do more controlled burns, but they have tied our hands with regulations.'
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: coniferous forests, droughts, fire control, fire injuries (animals), fire management, fire suppression (aerial), forest management, lightning caused fires, north Florida, prescribed fires (escaped), St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, wildfires
This document presents the study plan for the Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE). FASMEE is a large-scale interagency effort to (1) identify the critical measurements necessary to improve operational wildland fire and smoke prediction systems, (2) collect…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, FASMEE - Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, plume dynamics, air quality, fire energy