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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
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire equipment, firebreaks, Illinois, manuals, Melilotus albus, prairies, season of fire, seed germination, weed control
Observation shows that three types of horizontal vortices may form during intense wildland fires. Two of these vortices are longitudinal relative to the ambient wind and the third is transverse. One of the longitudinal types, a vortex pair, occurs with extreme heat and low to…
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Southwest, International
Keywords: Arizona, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, convection, crown fires, Europe, field experimental fires, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firebrands, flame length, France, fuel types, heat, heat effects, heavy fuels, ignition, laboratory fires, Michigan, Minnesota, mountains, national forests, Nevada, Pinus edulis, rate of spread, slash, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, temperature, vortices, wilderness areas, wildfires, wind, Wisconsin
Seeds of three species of dwarf mistletoe, Arceuthobium americanum Nutt. Ex Engelm., A. cyanocarpum Coulter & Nelson, and A. vaginatum subsp. cryptopodum (Engelm.) Hawksw. & Wiens, were exposed to smoke from burning forest fuels. Premeasured amounts of coniferous needles…
Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, Arceuthobium, coniferous forests, conifers, duff, fuel moisture, heat effects, needles, parasitic plants, plant growth, seed germination, smoke effects, statistical analysis, temperature, woody fuels
During early July 2002, wildfires burned ∼1 × 106 ha of forest in Quebec, Canada. The resultant smoke plume was seen in satellite images blanketing the U.S. east coast. Concurrently, extremely high CO mixing ratios were observed at the Atmospheric Investigation, Regional…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Eastern, International
Keywords: Quebec, air pollution, CO - carbon monoxide, AIRMAP, aerosol
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, Arizona, carbon dioxide, Colorado, convection, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fuel models, human caused fires, humidity, Idaho, land use, lightning caused fires, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, precipitation, succession, temperature, US Forest Service, Washington, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind, Wyoming
From the text ... 'The key consideration for the IC: always make the connection between observed and forecasted weather and observed and forecasted fire behavior.... When IC''s believe the observed instability conditions may significantly increase fire behavior, they should…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, smoke behavior, temperature, Washington, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wind
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: blowups, convection, fire control, fire management, fire whirls, firefighting personnel, smoke behavior, storms, Washington, wildfires, wind
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, algae, biogeochemical cycles, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, Indonesia, microorganisms, mortality, natural areas management, remote sensing, smoke effects, Sumatra, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, biomass, catastrophic fires, combustion, European settlement, fire case histories, fire control, fire equipment, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, land use, landscape ecology, national forests, national parks, private lands, wilderness fire management, wildfires
This study analyzes spatial and temporal variability of emissions from wildland fires across the contiguous US. The emissions are estimates based on a recently constructed dataset of historical fire records collected by multiple US governmental agencies. Both wildfire and…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire management, fire size, fuel loading, particulates, pollution, precipitation, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, wildfire, air pollutants, atmosphere-emission relationship
Biomass burning constitutes a major contribution to global emissions of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, greenhouse gases and aerosols. Furthermore, biomass burning has an impact on health, transport, the environment and land use. Vegetation fires are certainly not…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, Asia, biomass, Canada, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, Central America, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, fire frequency, fire management, human caused fires, Italy, land use, CH4 - methane, natural areas management, nutrient cycling, Portugal, remote sensing, Russia, season of fire, statistical analysis, United Kingdom, vegetation surveys, wildfires
The subtitle ... 'The American dream of a home in the woods is going up in smoke for more and more people. Here's how to keep it from happening to you.' Published by American Forests. Abstract reproduced by permission.
Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire damage (property), fire size, fire suppression, mortality, wildfires, wood
The Fire Monitoring, Mapping and Modelling System (Fire M3) is an initiative of the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) and the Canadian Forest Service (CFS), both agencies of Natural Resources Canada. The goals of Fire M3 are to use low-resolution satellite imagery to…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: biomass, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, computer programs, distribution, fire control, fire danger rating, fire size, GIS - geographic information system, habitat types, Ontario, Quebec, remote sensing, Saskatchewan, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, boreal forest, fire monitoring, hotspots
Quantitative documentation of fire behavior is important in understanding aspects of physical fire behavior. We describe the use of infrared technology to document on-the-ground fire behavior observed during the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) in the…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, computer programs, crown fires, fire intensity, fuel loading, fuel models, fuel types, GIS, microclimate, mortality, Northwest Territories, photography, rate of spread, remote sensing, sampling, sloping terrain, temperature, wildfires, wind, forest fire behavior, infrared, International crown Fire Modelling Experiment, Northwest Territories, observation, rate of spread, reaction intensity, temperature
Federal land management agencies in the U.S. have responded to recent severe wildfire seasons with plans to greatly expand fuel treatment programs. These plans are often accompanied by ecological justifications to assuage environmental objections to fuel treatment activities (e.…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, Colorado, coniferous forests, crown fires, fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire regimes, fuel loading, fuel management, Idaho, land management, land use, Montana, photography, rate of spread, South Dakota, statistical analysis, surface fires, Utah, wilderness fire management, Wyoming, fire exclusion, fire regimes, fuel treatments, repeat photography, vegetation change, western United States
From the text ... 'Knowing the current status of the historical fire regimes is critical for land management planning. ...Over the past century, forested area with low-severity fire potential has declined by more than 80 percent. ...During the presettlement era, stands in the…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa, age classes, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, fire case histories, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire scar analysis, forest management, land management, Montana, montane forests, mortality, mosaic, Native Americans, Oregon, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, post fire recovery, presettlement fires, Pseudotsuga menziesii, statistical analysis, subalpine forests, surface fires, Thuja plicata, trees, Tsuga heterophylla, understory vegetation, Utah, vegetation surveys, Washington, wildfires, Wyoming
From the text ... 'Ever dream of a single mopup tool that could blast both above- and below-ground fires? Well, dream no more. The monup nozzle can spray either water or wet air-aspirated class A fire foam on above-ground fires and inject either substance into the ground to…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: duff, fire equipment, fire management, firefighting personnel, foam, ground fires, leaves, mopping up, smoke effects, Washington, water, wildfires
From the text ... ''It will be a long time before those woods, more relentless than the waters, give up their dead.' -- C.E.Robinson, 1872 ...The drought was mild compared to the times leading up to other historically great fires in the Midwest. ...Surface fires scorched tree…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Acer, air quality, air temperature, Arizona, bark, Betula, blowups, bogs, Canada, catastrophic fires, Colorado, combustion, coniferous forests, convection, crown fires, crown scorch, crowns, Cupressaceae, dead fuels, deciduous forests, droughts, duff, education, energy, evergreens, Fagus grandifolia, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire growth, fire injuries (humans), fire intensity, fire management, fire sensitive plants, fire whirls, firebrands, firebreaks, firefighting personnel, flammability, forage, forest fragmentation, forest products, Fraxinus, fuel appraisal, fuel management, gases, heat, human caused fires, humidity, ignition, Illinois, leaves, lightning caused fires, logging, Maine, Michigan, mineral soils, Minnesota, mortality, mosaic, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New England, old growth forests, Ontario, overstory, Picea, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, Pinus resinosa, Pinus strobus, precipitation, presettlement fires, public information, Quercus, radiation, rate of spread, rivers, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, snags, soils, spontaneous combustion, spot fires, stand characteristics, storms, surface fires, surface fuels, temperature, topography, Ulmus, understory vegetation, vortices, Washington, water, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind, Wisconsin, wood, woody fuels
From the text ... 'During my 24 years as a wildland firefighter, knowing that I had protected someone's home or community has always made my chest swell. ...The ying and yang of firefighting is partly this: By suppressing fire for so many decades, we have let fuels build up to…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: ash, CO - carbon monoxide, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, fire whirls, firefighting personnel, flame length, fuel accumulation, fuel management, heat effects, Idaho, lightning caused fires, Montana, mortality, national parks, old growth forests, precipitation, resprouting, season of fire, spot fires, temperature, trees, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
From the text ... 'The Sioux and Cheyenne traditionally set fire to the prairie as they moved their summer camps in pursuit of game. ...The Great Sioux War provides a sharp contrast in how two different cultures with diverse values and objectives utilized fire. ...Many fires set…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: backfires, Black Hills, disturbance, droughts, ecotones, fire management, forage, fuel types, heat effects, histories, human caused fires, hunting, ignition, land use, lightning caused fires, Montana, Native Americans, prairies, precipitation, rangelands, smoke effects, South Dakota, storms, topography, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind, Wyoming
From the text ... 'Before we can begin working on a problem, we all need to understand its nature and scope. Fire is a problem that is usually easy to grasp, but wildfire has tended to occur in remote, less popluated areas, away from personal experience and the probing eye of…
Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Southern
Keywords: catastrophic fires, combustion, duff, education, fire control, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire equipment, fire management, fire protection, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, flame length, Florida, health factors, litter, logging, New Jersey, particulates, precipitation, smoke effects, urban habitats, wildfires
Long-term effects of air pollutants in Finland have been studied by analyzing needle litter of pine (Pinus silvestris L.) and spruce (Picea abies L. Karst) in 13 stands from the years 1958 to 1982. A considerable annual increase in elemental concentrations was observed in the…
Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies spp., air quality, Asteraceae, Canada, chemical elements, coniferous forests, Finland, litter, needles, nutrients, Picea, Picea abies, Pinus sylvestris, pollution, K - potassium, sampling, Scandinavia, site treatments, soil nutrients
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: biomass, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, catastrophic fires, ecosystem dynamics, energy, evapotranspiration, fuel accumulation, gases, leaves, Manitoba, Oregon, overstory, Picea mariana, post fire recovery, precipitation, radiation, regeneration, species diversity (plants), succession, understory vegetation, NEE - net ecosystem exchange
The present-day northern Rocky Mountain vegetation is the product of a long history of geologic and climatic events that have interacted with the species populations composing the regional flora. General concepts relating to the organization, classification, and dynamic nature…
Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Mapping, Fire History
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa, agriculture, Agropyron spicatum, air quality, Artemisia tridentata, biogeography, bogs, British Columbia, Canada, Colorado, community ecology, coniferous forests, cover, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, Festuca idahoensis, fire adaptations (plants), fire regimes, fire suppression, geology, glaciers, grasslands, grazing, histories, Idaho, introduced species, invasive species, Larix occidentalis, logging, marshes, mining, Montana, montane forests, mosses, mountains, national forests, national parks, old growth forests, Picea engelmannii, pine forests, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, Pinus flexilis, Pinus monticola, Pinus ponderosa, plant communities, Populus tremuloides, prairies, riparian habitats, shrublands, subalpine forests, swamps, Thuja plicata, topography, Tsuga heterophylla, tundra, Utah, vegetation surveys, water, water quality, wetlands, wind, Wyoming