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Many large grass fires occurred in north Texas and southern Oklahoma on 9 April 2009, destroying hundreds of homes and businesses and burning thousands of acres of grasslands, producing large smoke and debris plumes that were visible from various remote sensing platforms. At the…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: satellite observations, radar observations, remote sensing, fire detection, grass fire
Wildfire emissions are challenging to measure and model, but simple and realistic estimates can benefit multiple disciplines. We evaluate the potential of MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) data to address this objective. A total of 11,004 fire pixels detected…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, British Columbia, Canada, fire danger rating, fire management, fire size, GIS - geographic information system, remote sensing, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, area burned, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, aerosol emissions
The presence of glycosides of smoke-derived volatile phenols in smoke-affected grapes and the resulting wines of Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon was investigated with the aid of high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS). All volatile phenols…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Australia, phenology, smoke effects, smoke management, southern Australia, wildfires, volatile phenols, glycosides, smoke exposure, smoke taint, grapes, wine, bushfire, HPLC-MS, MS
Karrikins (2H-furo[2,3-c]pyran-2-ones) are potent smoke-derived germination promoters for a diverse range of plant species but, to date, their mode of action remains unknown. This paper reports the structure activity relationship of numerous karrikin analogues to increase…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, germination, seed dormancy, seed germination, smoke effects, smoke management, western Australia, karrikinolide, karrikin, seed germination, seed dormancy, germination stimulant
• Background and Aims Tersonia cyathiflora (Gyrostemonaceae) is a fire ephemeral with an obligate requirement for smoke to germinate. Whether it is stimulated to germinate by 3-methyl-2H-furo[2,3-c]pyran-2-one (karrikinolide, KAR1), the butenolide isolated from smoke that…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, fire sensitive plants, germination, Grevillea, seed germination, seeds, smoke effects, smoke management, Stylidium, Tersonia, western Australia, butenolide, germination, karrikinolide, 3-methyl-2H-furo[2, 3-c]pyran-2-one, Grevillea, Stylidium, Tersonia cyathiflora, Gyrostemonaceae
High-frequency thermocouple measurements were made during an experimental grass fire conducted during ideal weather with overcast and windy conditions. Analysis of the thermodynamic structure of the fire plume showed that a maximum plume temperature of 295.2°C was measured…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air temperature, combustion, crown fires, experimental fires, fire management, flame length, grasses, grasslands, heat, rate of spread, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, Texas, wildfires, wind, grass fire, thermocouples, fire plumes
Prescribed fires can be used as a forest management tool to reduce the severity of wildfires. Thus, over prolonged and repeated periods, firefighters are exposed to toxic air contaminants. This work consisted in collecting and analyzing smoke released by typical Mediterranean…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: chemical compounds, Corsica, Europe, fire intensity, fire management, firefighting personnel, forest management, France, fuel loading, health factors, hydrocarbons, pine forests, sampling, smoke effects, smoke management, toxicity, wildfires, wind, air quality, BTEXs, firefighter exposure, forest fire smoke, SVOC - semi-volatile organic compounds, VOC - volatile organic compounds, Mediterranean, firefighter health
From the text ... 'Today, land managers use controlled or 'prescribed' burning to improve wildlife habitat and reduce the risk of dangerous fires. Wildfire, on the other hand, can threaten life and property of both people and wildlife especially when it occurs with little notice…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air temperature, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, firebreaks, firefighting personnel, forest management, humidity, lightning caused fires, smoke management, soil moisture, wildfires, wildlife, wind
A survey of the biodiversity of wild macrofungi, including edible species yields, was carried out from 1 May to 30 September 2007 at four different forest types (in mainly Miang tea forest). The plots 100 m2, comprised a tea garden with a few planted canopy tree species (37.2%…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Asia, cover, fire injuries (plants), fire management, forest management, forest types, fungi, humidity, litter, overstory, Thailand, trees, wildfires, Basidiomycetes, burning, diversity, sustainable forestry, Thailand
An understanding of soil seed bank processes is crucial for understanding vegetation dynamics, particularly in ecosystems experiencing frequent disturbance. This paper examines seed bank dynamics in a tropical savanna in northern Australia, an environment characterised by…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, disturbance, experimental fires, fire frequency, fire management, forbs, forest management, grasses, heat, legumes, Northern Territory of Australia, population density, precipitation, savannas, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, soil temperature, species diversity (plants), sprouting, temperature, tropical forests, vegetation surveys, wildfires, seed bank, grass-layer, germination
• Background and Aims The role of fire as a germination cue for Mediterranean Basin (MB) plants is still unclear. The current idea is that heat stimulates germination mainly in Cistaceae and Fabaceae and that smoke has a limited role as a post-fire germination cue, in comparison…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Ericaceae, Europe, experimental areas, Fabaceae, fire management, germination, heat, heat effects, Mediterranean habitats, plant communities, plant growth, post fire recovery, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, shrublands, smoke effects, smoke management, Spain, woody plants, post-fire germination, heat treatments, Mediterranean basin, smoke treatments, seedling growth, Cistaceae, Fabaceae, Ericaceae, Lamiaceae, Linaceae, Scrophulariaceae , Primulaceae
A new dataset of emissions of trace gases and particles resulting from biomass burning has been developed for the historical and the recent period (1900-2005). The purpose of this work is to provide a consistent gridded emissions dataset of atmospheric chemical species from 1900…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, biomass, biomass burning, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, cover, ENSO, fire management, gases, mosaic, particulates, remote sensing, savannas, tropical forests, wildfires, climate change, gases, particles, biomass burning, burnt areas, historical, satellite
Biomass burning is one of many sources of particulate pollution in Southeast Asia, but its irregular spatial and temporal patterns mean that large episodes can cause acute air quality problems in urban areas. Fires in Sumatra and Borneo during September and October 2006…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Asia, biomass, biomass burning, Borneo, fire management, fire size, fuel models, Indonesia, Malaysia, pollution, Singapore, smoke management, Southeast Asia, Sumatra, urban habitats, wildfires, biomass burning, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, aerosol, aerosol transport modeling, aerosol modeling, emissions modeling, smoke emissions, Sumatra, Borneo
Long term, high quality estimates of burned area are needed for improving both prognostic and diagnostic fire emissions models and for assessing feedbacks between fire and the climate system. We developed global, monthly burned area estimates aggregated to 0.5º spatial…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, fire management, fire scar analysis, fire size, gases, remote sensing, statistical analysis, trees
This review compiled the data from recent actual and simulation studies on toxic emissions from open burning and categorized into sources, broadly as biomass and anthropogenic fuels. Emission factors, in mass of pollutant per mass of material being burned, and actual…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Asia, biomass, biomass burning, charcoal, combustion, cropland fires, fire danger rating, fire management, fuel management, human caused fires, hydrocarbons, incendiary fires, Japan, land management, particulates, recreation related fires, smoke effects, toxicity, water, wildfires, open burning, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, particulate matter, PCDD - polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, Fs, toxic emissions
Smoke generated by burning of plant materials has widely been recognized as a germination cue for some species from both fire prone and fire-free ecosystems. It is an important factor for the understanding of vegetation dynamics and could have potential use for ecological…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, Borreria, Burkina Faso, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, fire regimes, forbs, germination, grasses, heat, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, native species (plants), seed dispersal, seed germination, seeds, smoke effects, smoke management, temperature, vegetation surveys, forbs, native grasses, fire-related cues, propagation by seeds, West Africa
Colinus virginianus (Northern Bobwhite) respond favorably to frequent disturbances in most physiographic regions of their population distribution. These disturbances maintain the vegetative composition and structure needed for survival and reproduction. Prescribed fire is an…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Andropogon, Aristida, birds, Colinus, Colinus virginianus, distribution, disturbance, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, flame length, Florida, forest management, fuel moisture, game birds, headfires, humidity, Ilex glabra, mortality, pine forests, Pinus palustris, population density, private lands, reproduction, Schizachyrium spp., Serenoa repens, Taxodium distichum, threatened and endangered species (animals), wildlife habitat management
Ambient temperature and water availability regulate seasonal timing of germination. In fire-prone landscapes, the role of fire-related cues in affecting the range of temperatures and water potentials (Ys) across which germination can occur is poorly known, especially in non-…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, catastrophic fires, Epacris, Ericaceae, fire frequency, fire management, forest management, germination, heat, heat effects, Kunzea, Kunzea ambigua, national parks, New South Wales, plant growth, post fire recovery, regeneration, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, smoke effects, temperature, water, geat, hydrotime, water potential, soil seed bank
The European coastal heathlands are important habitats for international conservation. Today, these low-intensity farming systems are threatened by the cessation of traditional management regimes, such as grazing and prescribed burning. In natural systems, the effects of fire on…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: adaptation, Calluna, Calluna vulgaris, conservation, Europe, fire management, forest management, germination, grazing, heathlands, histories, human caused fires, keystone species, Norway, paleoecology, plant communities, population density, post fire recovery, seed dormancy, seed germination, smoke effects, smoke management, succession, anthropogenic disturbance, germination cues, palaeoecology, plant-derived smoke, secondary succession
The inorganic main elements, trace elements and PAHs were determined from selected PM1, PM2.5 and
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, chemical compounds, distribution, Europe, Finland, hydrocarbons, particulates, K - potassium, season of fire, smoke management, wildfires, wind, atmospheric aerosols
The trend in global wildfire potential under the climate change due to the greenhouse effect is investigated. Fire potential is measured by the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI), which is calculated using the observed maximum temperature and precipitation and projected changes…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Africa, Asia, Australia, droughts, Europe, fire management, climate change, greenhouse gases, precipitation, season of fire, South America, temperature, wildfires, wildfire potential, KBDI - Keetch-Byram Drought Index, projection, fire potential
Smoke plays an intriguing role in promoting the germination of seeds of many species following a fire. Recently, a bicyclic compound containing a condensed butenolide moiety, 3-methyl-2H-furo[2,3-c]pyran-2-one (1), was reported as a potent germination promoter from plant-derived…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, chemical compounds, germination, Lactuca sativa, Passerina vulgaris, plant growth, post fire recovery, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, smoke effects, smoke management, South Africa, Themeda triandra, toxicity
Daysmoke is a local smoke transport model and has been used to provide smoke plume rise information. It includes a large number of parameters describing the dynamic and stochastic processes of particle upward movement, fallout, fluctuation, and burn emissions. This study…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, smoke behavior, wildfires, aerial ignition, air quality, mosaic, national forests, pollution, North Carolina, Tennessee, fire management, fuel management, smoke management, plume rise, DAYSMOKE, sensitivety analysis
With the emergence of a new forest management paradigm based on the emulation of natural disturbance regimes, interest in fire-related studies has increased in the boreal forest management community. A key issue in this regard is the improvement of our understanding of the…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Models
Region(s): Alaska, Eastern, International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire frequency, fire size, wildfires, air quality, disturbance, climate change, paleoecology, statistical analysis, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, boreal forests, carbon emissions, charcoal analysis, simulation model
Charcoal fragments preserved in small, wet basins are used to characterise the fire regime of temperate and mixed boreal forest (hemiboreal) zones of southern Scandinavia during the last 3500 years. There was far less charcoal recorded from the temperate zone than the hemiboreal…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, flammability, fuel types, charcoal, paleoecology, pollen, sedimentation, Denmark, Scandinavia, Sweden, Holocene, fire management, forest management, boreal forests, coniferous forests, ecotones, charcoal analysis, hemiboreal forest zone, palaeoecology, temperate forest zone, temperate forest