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This landowner smoke management guidebook was created through a collaboration between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), North Carolina State University, Southern Fire Exchange, Southern Regional Extension Forestry (SREF), and the University of Georgia Warnell School of…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: smoke management, air quality, public health, PM - particulate matter, smoke dispersion, fuel load, O3 - ozone, liability, mitigation
Although the characteristics of biomass burning events and the ambient ecosystem determine emitted smoke composition, the conditions that modulate the partitioning of black carbon (BC) and brown carbon (BrC) formation are not well understood, nor are the spatial or temporal…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: biomass burning, remote sensing, MISR - Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer, smoke plume, particle properties, aerosols, FIREX‐AQ - Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality, wildfire, smoke plume height, air quality
Prescribed fire is an important tool for maintaining the resilience of fire-dependent ecosystems. Despite broad recognition of its value, however, prescribed fire application in the western US has not been applied at the necessary levels. Past research has identified a range of…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: policy, collaboration, funding, incentives
Wildfires over the past 3 years have resulted in lengthy episodes of smoke inundation across major metropolitan areas in Australia, Brazil, and the United States. In 2020, air quality across the western United States reached and sustained extremely unhealthy to hazardous levels…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Australia, Brazil, PM - particulate matter, health impacts, air quality, human health
Wildfires are an important source of nitrous acid (HONO), a photolabile radical precursor, yet in situ measurements and quantification of primary HONO emissions from open wildfires have been scarce. We present airborne observations of HONO within wildfire plumes sampled during…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: HONO - nitrous acid, wildfires, N - nitrogen, fire plumes, hydrogen oxide
The evolution of organic aerosol (OA) and brown carbon (BrC) in wildfire plumes, including the relative contributions of primary versus secondary sources, has been uncertain in part because of limited knowledge of the precursor emissions and the chemical environment of smoke…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: biomass burning, secondary organic aerosol, brown carbon, phenolic compounds, aircraft measurements, PM2.5, wildfires, plumes
Part of the FIRE x FAUNA: Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Effects on Wildlife series sponsored by Forest Service Research and Development
Cannabis cultivation and wildfires: Where there’s smoke, there’s smoke, Adam Cummings, Ecologist
Wildfires ignitions, costs to wildlife, and…
Person: Cummings, Gabriel, Lake
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: cannabis, wildlife, wildfire, rodenticide, cultivation, Indigenous burning, pyrodiversity, fish, solar radiation, inversion, fisheries, smoke density, AOT - aerosol optical thickness, water temperature
Wildfires and other types of biomass burning are a seasonal phenomenon in different land ecosystems around the world. Such fires are estimated to consume biomass containing a total of 2-5 petagrams of carbon globally every year, generating heat energy and emitting smoke plumes…
Person: Ichoku
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: FRE - Fire Radiative Energy, biomass, PM - particulate matter, air quality, black carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, remote sensing, emission factor, satellite observations
Fire has been a natural feature of the ecosystem for million years. Still, currently fire regimes have been increasingly altered by human activities and climate change, causing economic losses, air pollution, and environmental damage. In Brazil, savannas (locally known as the…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Brazil, cerrado, savanna, frequent fires, plant biomass, climate change, aboveground biomass, carbon emissions, co-existence, fire frequency, management, BEFIRE
This webinar to the NWCG Smoke Committee describes experimental tools developed for smoke management including higher resolution 7-day forecasts. Presented by Bret Anderson, who works for the National USDA Forest Service Air program and develops tools for wildfire smoke…
Person: Anderson
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Smoke Dispersion Modeling, smoke modeling, air quality forecasting
A case study of particle dispersion modeling to assess ventilation adjective ratings in Colorado. The goal of this research is to improve smoke ventilation in support of prescribed fire and fuel reduction operations by deploying old and new methods and technologies. This…
Person: Charney, Mathewson
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: smoke, Smoke Dispersion Modeling, ventilation
Several studies have separately explored accumulation of the dominant fuels (grass, fine litter (<6 mm diameter) and coarse woody debris (CWD, 6-50 mm diameter)) in north Australian savannas. We report an analysis of two longitudinal datasets describing how these three fuel…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, emissions abatement, fire management, fire regimes, fire seasonality, fuel accumulation, FPC - foliage projective cover, litter fuels, tropical savannas, CWD - coarse woody debris
Biomass fires in Indonesia emit high levels of greenhouse gases and particulate matter, key contributors to global climate change and poor air quality in south-east Asia. In order to better understand the drivers of biomass fires across Indonesia over multiple years, we examined…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: Indonesia, biomass burning, climate change, fire hotspot, haze, Southeast Asia, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Papua New Guinea, fire probability, fire distribution, fire management
In this short webinar, RMRS Research Physical Scientist Shawn Urbanski and Fire Ecologist Duncan Lutes will discuss the current state of the science on wildland fire smoke emissions, including pollutants present in smoke, methods for quantifying emission flux, existing datasets…
Person: Urbanski, Lutes
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, fuel consumption, smoke prediction, public health, smoke impacts, emission factor, C - carbon, fuelbed properties, PM2.5, smoldering, flaming combustion, PM - particulate matter
A presentation delivred to by Caroline Noble to the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Smoke Committee (SmoC) in November 2020. The presentation focuses on the current features of the Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) Version 3.2.2.1. Questions…
Person: Noble
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke, fuels planning, fire modeling, smoke modeling, risk models, DSS - decision support system
Wildland firefighters are exposed to health hazards including inhaling hazardous pollutants from the combustion of live and dead vegetation (smoke) and breathe soil dust, while working long shifts with no respiratory protection. This research brief summarizes a study analyzing…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, smoke exposure, firefighter safety, relative risk
Biomass burning, including fires, has been identified as the largest source of primary fine carbonaceous particles in the troposphere and one of the major drivers of global carbon (C) cycle, cloud properties, and climate. Most of the global C emissions happen in the Pantropic…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Mexico, biomass, carbon emissions, tropical forest fire, field observations, C - carbon, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, GOES - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, FRE - Fire Radiative Energy, climate change, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, La Nina
Wildfire smoke influences on air quality and atmospheric chemistry have been underscored by the increasing fire prevalence in recent years, and yet, the connection between fire, smoke emissions, and the subsequent transformation of this smoke in the atmosphere remains poorly…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: aerosol, FIREX‐AQ - Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality, remote sensing, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, in situ monitoring, wildfire, satellite observations, gas emissions
The risk of fires is ever increasing along with the boom of urban buildings. The current methods of detecting fire with the use of smoke sensors with large areas, however poses an issue. The introduction of video surveillance systems has given a great opportunity for identifying…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke detection, fire detection, CNN - convolution neural network, image processing, deep learning, machine vision
Wildfires in the western United States are expected to increase both in size and severity in coming decades. These trends are likely to accelerate large-scale habitat loss and fragmentation for the spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest, California, and the Southwest. All three…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): California, Northwest, Southwest
Keywords: spotted owl, Strix occidentalis, Strix occidentalis caurina, Strix occidentalis lucida, Strix occidentalis occidentalis, northern spotted owl, California spotted owl, Mexican spotted owl, large fires, annual area burned, habitat, fire severity, forest structure, forest composition
The Thomas Fire ignited on December 5, 2017 and burned nearly 300,000 acres of land in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties until January 12, 2018, making it the largest wildfire in California history at the time. During the fire, a persistent plume of ash, smoke, and soot…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: Thomas Fire, Santa Barbara Channel, ash, phytoplankton, marine ecology
Fires burning across the Amazon in the summer of 2019 attracted global attention for the widespread destruction of natural ecosystems and regional smoke production. Using a combination of satellite fire observations and atmospheric modeling, Nawaz and Henze (2020, https://doi.…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: public health, Brazil, air pollution, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, human health, health impacts
In order to meet preidentified objectives, prescribed burns are lit under specific conditions to produce desirable results such as favorable plant response, healthy forest and rangeland conditions for grazing and wildlife habitat, silvicultural treatments, indigenous cultural…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: NWFSC - Northwest Fire Science Consortium, pile burning, broadcast burning
There has been an increasing interest in the economic health cost from smoke exposure from wildfires in the past 20 years, particularly in the north-western USA that is reflected in an emergent literature. In this review, we provide an overview and discussion of studies since…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, International
Keywords: BenMAP Community Edition, health impacts, literature review, Canada
Wildfire frequency and severity are increasing in many locations around the world. Wildfires emit particles and trace gases that are harmful to public health. In this talk, I will share results from several projects around the world that are evaluating the impact that wildfire…
Person: Marlier
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): California, International
Keywords: Indonesia, air quality, public health, air pollution, remote sensing, morbidity, drought, climate change, land management, wildfires, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5