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In an effort to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning, renewable energy policies incentivize use of forest biomass as an energy source. Many governments have assumed (legislated) the carbon flux from burning biomass to be neutral because biomass growth sequesters CO2.…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, air quality, biomass, carbon dioxide, biogeochemical cycles, climate change, energy, fire management, forest management, bioenergy, climate change, forestry, life cycle analysis, discounting
Wildfire activity is predicted to increase with global climate change, resulting in longer fire seasons and larger areas burned. The emissions from fires are highly variable owing to differences in fuel, burning conditions and other external environmental factors. The smoke that…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Safety, Weather
Region(s): California, International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, Australia, Victoria, Canada, British Columbia, Indonesia, Asia, Singapore, air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, gases, health factors, hydrocarbons, Hg - mercury, ozone, particulates, fire management, smoke management, boreal forests, peatlands, savannas, tropical forests, Climate Effects on Emissions, forest fires, health impacts, Hg - mercury, particulate matter, smoke production
From the text ... 'Smoke can be transported hundreds of miles downwind by prevailing winds or convective winds generated by fires themselves with concentrations sufficient to make it the most significant source of air pollution over large areas.'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, climate change, pollution, fire management, smoke management
Persistent high pressure conditions over the European part of Russia during summer 2010 were responsible for an extended period of hot and dry weather, creating favourable conditions for severe wildfires. The chemical transport model SILAM is used to simulate the dispersion of…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire intensity, wildfires, Europe, Russia, aerosols, fire management, forest management, smoke management, SILAM, MACC Reanalysis, HARMONIE, wildfire, Aerosol Direct Radiative Effect
A total number of 20,212 fire hot spots were recorded by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite instrument over Greece during the period 2002-2013. The Fire Radiative Power (FRP) of these events ranged from 10 up to 6000 MW at 1 km resolution, and…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, particulates, remote sensing, Europe, Greece, fire management, smoke management, fire smoke, injection height, Smoke Dispersion Modeling, Firehub
Fully-coupled air-quality models running in 'feedback' and 'no-feedback' configurations were compared against each other and observation network data as part of Phase 2 of the Air Quality Model Evaluation International Initiative. In the 'no-feedback' mode, interactions between…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, aerosols, air quality, pollution, Europe, smoke management, feedbacks, air pollution modelling, weather prediction, direct effect, indirect effect, coupled modelling systems, forecasting
This study reviews the top ranked meteorology and chemistry interactions in online coupled models recommended by an experts' survey conducted in COST Action EuMetChem and examines the sensitivity of those interactions during two pollution episodes: the Russian forest fires 25…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models, Climate
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, dust, particulates, pollution, Europe, fire management, smoke management, aerosol direct effects, feedback, PM10, fire and dust
As a contribution to phase2 of the Air Quality Model Evaluation International Initiative (AQMEII), eight different simulations for the year 2010 were performed with WRF-Chem for the European domain. The four simulations using RADM2 gas-phase chemistry and the MADE/SORGAM aerosol…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Climate
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, pollution, Europe, fire management, smoke management, WRF-Chem, online coupled model, direct aerosol effect, indirect effect, aerosol-meteorology feedback, RADM2, AQMEII-2
Fires impact atmospheric composition through their emissions, which range from long-lived gases to short-lived gases and aerosols. Effects are typically larger in the tropics and boreal regions but can also be substantial in highly populated areas in the northern mid-latitudes.…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: wildfires, fires, biomass burning, CO - carbon monoxide, O3 - ozone, aerosols, radiative forcing, injection height
Changes in the current fire regime would directly affect carbon cycling, land–atmosphere exchanges, and atmospheric composition, and could therefore modulate the ongoing climate warming. We used a coupled climate–carbon model to quantify the effect of major changes in non-…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire regimes, CO2 - carbon dioxide, atmospheric dynamics, fire frequency, air quality, albedo, C - carbon, climate change, remote sensing, temperature, fire management, forest management
Wildfire activity is predicted to increase with global climate change, resulting in longer fire seasons and larger areas burned. The emissions from fires are highly variable owing to differences in fuel, burning conditions and other external environmental factors. The smoke that…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: forest fire, health impacts, Hg - mercury, PM - particulate matter, smoke production
'Megafire' events, in which large high-intensity fires propagate over extended periods, can cause both immense damage to the local environment and catastrophic air quality impacts on cities and towns downwind. Increases in extreme events associated with climate change (e.g.,…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire potential, megafires
Most of climate change is understood in terms of global-scale warming caused by carbon dioxide released from anthropogenic combustion of fossil fuels. Climate models predict slow but steady warming over the next five to ten decades. Developing fire and smoke management…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire management, smoke management, climate change, arctic warming
The Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program (FFS) of the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station focuses on fundamental and applied research in wildland fire, from fire physics and fire ecology to fuels management and smoke emissions. Located at the Missoula Fire…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, fuel dynamics, wildland fire, climate change, research, fuel management, research accomplishment report, fire physics
The balance between ecosystem emissions of carbon to the atmosphere and removals from the atmosphere indicates whether ecosystems are exacerbating or reducing climate change. Forest ecosystems in the State of California, USA, contain carbon that reaches the highest densities (…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): California
Keywords: aboveground biomass, fire suppression, forest ecosystems, FIA - Forest Inventory and Analysis, LANDFIRE, remote sensing, fuel accumulation, wildfire, urban areas, aboveground live carbon, California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, agricultural areas
Fire frequency, extent, and size exhibit a strong linkage with climate conditions and play a vital role in the climate system. Previous studies have shown that the frequency of large fires in the western United States increased significantly since the mid-1980s due to climate…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: wildfires, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire size, C - carbon, climate change, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, smoke management, Dynamic Land Ecosystem Model, fire severity, burned area
Southeastern France is the most wildfire prone region of the country, covering 14.7 percent of its land area-entire country, is the region most affected by wildfires, with 55 percent of the total number of fires recorded in the whole country from 2006 to 2008. It is a typical…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: France, fire management, political consequences, social consequences, fire regimes, large fires
Fire is an intrinsic element of many forest ecosystems; it shapes their ecological processes, determines species composition and influences landscape structure. However, wildfires may: have undesirable effects on biodiversity and vegetation coverage; produce carbon emissions to…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: climate change, climate variability, forest fire, tool
Black carbon (BC) aerosol emitted by boreal fires has the potential to accelerate losses of snow and ice in many areas of the Arctic, yet the importance of this source relative to fossil fuel BC emissions from lower latitudes remains uncertain. Here we present measurements of…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: black carbon, black carbon aerosols, boreal fire, organic carbon, PM2.5 emissions, climate change
We estimate future area burned in the Alaskan and Canadian forest by the mid-century (2046–2065) based on the simulated meteorology from 13 climate models under the A1B scenario. We develop ecoregion-dependent regressions using observed relationships between annual total area…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: climate change, ozone, air quality, wildfire, Canada
It was August 30, 1987; the summer was drawing to a close. After 3 years of drought and a hot summer, fuel conditions in northern California and southern Oregon were primed for fires. That evening, dry thunderstorms pounded that region with more than 1,600 lightning strikes. I…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: firefighting personnel, C - carbon, fire case histories, fire size, fire suppression, wildfires, Oregon, climate change, education, fire management, forest management, smoke management
Forest burning, which emits large amounts of trace gases and particulate matter into the atmosphere, produces great impacts on air quality and climate change. In this study, the MODIS (Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) burned area product (MCD45A1) and GlobCover…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: area burned, China, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, model accuracy, fire frequency, fire size, season of fire, wildfires, air quality, climate change, statistical analysis, Asia, fire management, forest management
Globally, the amount of carbon stored in peats exceeds that stored in vegetation and is similar in size to the current atmospheric carbon pool. Fire is a threat to many peat-rich biomes and has the potential to disturb these carbon stocks. Peat fires are dominated by smouldering…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: peat fires, carbon cycle, carbon stock, climate change, peatland, smoldering, soil carbon, carbon loss
Indonesia has experienced rapid land use change over the last few decades as forests and peatswamps have been cleared for more intensively managed land uses, including oil palm and timber plantations. Fires are the predominant method of clearing and managing land for more…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, land use, climate variability, deforestation, Indonesia, Sumatra, wildfires, climatology, Asia, fire management
In the United States, wildfires burn millions of acres every year, releasing large amounts of gases and particles to the atmosphere.
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, climate change, fire activity