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Smoke at Palm Beach during the 1971 Everglades wildfires

During the last 17 days of April 1971, smoke from wildfires in the Florida Everglades drifted over the east coast of southern Florida. Smoke restricted visibilities 67.9% of the time at Palm Beach International Airport, and aircraft operations were 11.9% less than for an…
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, everglades, fire case histories, fire management, fire size, Florida, particulates, pollution, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, south Florida, temperature, urban habitats, wildfires, wind

Smoke on the water: can riverine fish populations recover following a catastrophic fire-related sediment slug?

In early 2003 a series of large, wildfire-related sediment slugs occurred in streams in the south-eastern Australian alpine region. Back-pack and boat-mounted electrofishing were used to measure changes in riverine fish fauna after one particularly large sediment slug which…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, disturbance, fire management, fishes, mortality, O - oxygen, population density, post fire recovery, rivers, sedimentation, streams, translocation, Victoria, water, water quality, watershed management, wildfires, Australia, blackfish, dissolved oxygen, Ovens River, sediment