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Forest fires impact on soil, water, and biota resources. The current forest fires in the West Coast of the United States (US) profoundly impacted the atmosphere and air quality across the ecosystems and have caused severe environmental and public health burdens. Forest fire led…
Person:
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: forest fire, air pollution, COVID-19, NO2 - nitrogen dioxide, spatial models, PM - particulate matter, human health

A Resource from the Western Regional Air Partnership's (WRAP) Fire Emissions Joint Forum (FEJF)In December 2002 the FEJF issued a request for proposal for a bibliography and summary table on Emission Reduction Techniques for agricultural burning and wildland fire in support of…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Fire Behavior
Region(s): National, Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: WRAP - Western Regional Air Partnership, emission factors, agricultural burning, emissions reduction, agricultural residues, burning index, wildland fire

Objectives: Wildfire air pollution is a growing concern on human health. The study aims to assess the associations between wildfire air pollution and pregnancy outcomes in the Southwestern United States.Study design: This was a retrospective cohort study.Methods: Birth records…
Person:
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Rocky Mountain, Southwest, Northern Rockies
Keywords: public health, air pollution, pregnancy outcomes, fine particulate matter, PM2.5, black carbon, organic carbon

As wildfires increasingly impact the global economy and public health, understanding their effects is crucial. Particularly, the relationship between wildfires and anxiety disorders remains unclear. In this study, we explore this association by analyzing 1,897,865 emergency…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: anxiety, risk factors, public health, PM2.5

Background: The record number of wildfires in the United States in recent years has led to an increased focus on developing tools to accurately forecast their impacts at high spatial and temporal resolutions. Aims: The Warn-on-Forecast System for Smoke (WoFS-Smoke) was developed…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: data assimilation, ensemble, GOES-R, NWP - numerical weather prediction, probabilistic forecasting, smoke forecasting, weather radar, wildfires, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas

Global climate change and extreme weather has a profound impact on wildfire, and it is of great importance to explore wildfire patterns in the context of global climate change for wildfire prevention and management. In this paper, a wildfire spatial prediction model based on…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire management, GFED - Global Fire Emissions Database, convolutional neural network, area burned

Rationale: Wildfires are increasing in intensity, duration, and frequency with smoke plums affecting the lives of millions over large geographic areas. The immune modulatory effects of wildfire smoke are unclear. We previously showed that a major wildfire smoke component, ozone…
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Year: 2024
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: COVID-19, public health, air quality

Starting from point sources, wildfire smoke is important in the global aerosol system. The ability to characterize smoke near-source is key to modeling smoke dispersion and predicting air quality. With hemispheric views and 10-min refresh, imagers in Geostationary (GEO) orbit…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: remote sensing, air quality, smoke dispersion, MAS (MODIS Airborne Simulator), FIREX‐AQ - Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality

The vertical distribution of biomass burning aerosol (BBA) is important in regulating their impacts on weather and climate. The plume-rise process affects the injection height of BBA and interacts with the air parcel lifting and cloud processes. However, these processes are not…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: E3SM - Energy Exascale Earth System Model, aerosol radiative effects, fire plumes, fire size

Emission factors (EFs) are crucial in understanding the effects of wildfire emissions on air quality. We examined the variability of EFs of three wildfires (Nethker, Castle, and 204 Cow) during the 2019 Western US wildfire season using the Aerodyne Mobile Laboratory (AML) and…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: emission factors, air quality, FIREX‐AQ - Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality, MCE - modified combustion efficiency

Sub-micron particles are ubiquitous in the indoor environment, especially during wildfire smoke episodes, and have a higher impact on human health than larger particles. Conventional fibrous air filters installed in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems play…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, HVAC, air pollution, indoor air quality, indoor air filtration, filters, health effects, Canada

The website provides additional information on air quality, prescribed burning and wildfires, and steps to take when the air quality is affected by smoke.
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Year:
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords:

The Air Quality Division's WyVisNet website is a 'self serve' resource: that provides access to near real-time ambient air monitored data and web cameras throughout Wyoming.  The Air Quality Division may also post messages to WyVisNet for forecasted moderate to heavy smoke. The…
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Year:
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords:

Utah Smoke Management System with a map interface showing burn requests, scheduled projects, and current and past years completed burns. 
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Year:
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords:

Peatland fires are one of the major global sources of atmospheric particles. Emission factors for fine (PM1 and PM2.5) and ultrafine (PM0.1) particles and particle-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from plants in the peat swamp forest (PSF), including Melaleuca…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: peat swamp forest, forest burning source, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Melaleuca cajuputi, PM2.5, PM1, PM0.1, leaf litter, PAH diagnostic ratios, particle emission factors

Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) document to assist burners in determining what SMP level a planned burn project falls under, the emissions equivalency conversion tables below are provided. These tables represent, by vegetation type, what acreage or pile volume amounts…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords:

Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) document to assist burners in determining what SMP level a planned burn project falls under, the emissions equivalency conversion tables are provided.
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords:

Document includes information on: Contacts WAQSR Ch. 10 Regulations Open Burning under Ch. 10, Section 2 Prescribed Burning (SMP-I,II) under Ch. 10, Section 4 Unplanned Events under Ch. 10, Section 4 Long Term Planning under Ch. 10, Section 4 Forms and Burn Registration…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords:

Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) website with links to information, guidance documents, forms, and more. The guidance section links to Wyoming's smoke management program, smoke management program guidance, and other documents.
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Year:
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords:

The purpose of R307-204 is to establish by rule procedures that mitigate the impacts on air quality and visibility from prescribed fire.
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Year:
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
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This SMP identifies the responsibilities of federal and state land managers and the Utah Division of Air Quality (DAQ) to coordinate procedures that mitigate the impacts of prescribed fire on air quality, visibility, and public safety, in terms of smoke. This plan is designed to…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords:

The Utah web portal for Land managers to register prescribed fires, request burn windows, and report emissions.
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Year:
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
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The Kansas Flint Hills Smoke Management website provides a single location for land managers conducting prescribed burns in the Flint Hills to obtain information and access tools to assist them in making burn decisions.
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Year:
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
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Smoke management plan focusing on reducing the impacts of Flint Hills burning on air quality in downwind areas. The plan includes contingency measures to be evaluated for potential adoption in the event that further actions are needed. 
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords:

Information page on permits for larger projects. The page also contains a smoke management program guide and background.
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Year:
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
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