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Fires in croplands, plantations, and rangelands contribute significantly to fire emissions in the United States, yet are often overshadowed by wildland fires in efforts to develop inventories or estimate responses to climate change. Here we quantified decadal trends, interannual…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: cropland fires, fire regimes, wildfires, air quality, climate change, plantations, remote sensing, fire management, range management, croplands, rangelands, agriculture, air quality, carbon cycle, wildfire, aerosols
Smoke haze, caused by vegetation and peat fires in Southeast Asia, is of major concern because of its adverse impact on regional air quality. We apply two different methods (a chemical transport model and a Lagrangian atmospheric transport model) to identify the locations of…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: ground fires, peat fires, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, particulates, pollution, vegetation surveys, Singapore, Sumatra, Asia, fire management, smoke management, air quality, particulate matter, vegetation fires, aerosol, Southeast Asia, air pollution, smoke transport
An ensemble approach is used to examine the sensitivity of smoke loading and smoke direct radiative effect in the atmosphere to uncertainties in smoke emission estimates. Seven different fire emission inventories are applied independently to WRF-Chem model (v3.5) with the same…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, smoke effects, aerosols, air quality, air temperature, Africa, fire management, smoke management, fire emission inventory, Sahel and northern sub-Saharan African region, smoke radiative effect, mesoscale modeling, air quality
Open burnings (forest fires, agricultural, and garbage burnings) are the major sources of air pollution in Chiang Mai, Thailand. A time series prospective study was conducted in which 3,025 participants were interviewed for 19 acute symptoms with the daily records of ambient air…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, diseases, ozone, Thailand, Asia, fire management, smoke management
Fire frequency for below historic norms is threatening eastern oak ecosystem integrity. Increasingly, private family forest landowners are interested in using prescribed fire as a tool for maintaining oak dominance and associated wildlife habitat and wildfire protection. The…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: fire frequency, prescribed fires (escaped), smoke effects, air quality, private lands, Quercus, oak, Illinois, fire management, land management, range management, wildlife habitat management, hardwood forests, rangelands, community forestry, land management, family forest, Quercus
The 2006 Esperanza Fire in Riverside County, California, was simulated with the Coupled Atmosphere-Wildland Fire Environment (CAWFE) model to examine how dynamic interactions of the atmosphere with large-scale fire spread and energy release may affect observed patterns of fire…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Safety, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire case histories, fire injuries (humans), fire size, fuel loading, fuel models, heat, rate of spread, wildfires, Foehn winds, remote sensing, temperature, wind, southern California, fire management, forest management, airborne remote sensing, coupled atmosphere-fire model, horizontal roll vortices, Santa Ana winds, Esperanza Fire
From the introduction ... 'Announcing the release of new software packages for application in wildland fire science and management, two fields that are already fully saturated with computer technology, may seem a bit too much to many managers. However, there have been some…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FEIS, fire intensity, fire regimes, LANDFIRE, wildfires, air quality, computer programs, fire management
From the text ... 'Extreme dry conditions and a forest full of fuel, including thousands of acres of trees killed by the mountain pine beetle, fed Montana's Pine Creek Fire in late summer 2012. The fire ended up burning more than 8,000 acres.'
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Fire Prevention, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: catastrophic fires, fire case histories, fire injuries (animals), fire intensity, fire size, heat, rate of spread, wildfires, climate change, disturbance, wind, Yellowstone National Park, Montana, Wyoming, fire management, forest management, coniferous forests
The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by personnel from agencies and organizations within AWFCG during 2014 Fall Fire Review and through other solicitations. The topics were initially ranked by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: research needs
The slideshow for this project was presented at the 2014 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: boreal forest, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire regime, fire severity, fuel loading, climate change, forest succession, permafrost, wildfire, annual area burned, mean annual temperature
The characteristics and spatial distribution of fuels are critical for assessing fire hazard, fuel consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and other fire effects. However, fuel maps are difficult to generate and update, because many regions of the world lack fuel descriptions or…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, remote sensing, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, fire potential, South America, fuelbeds, wildfires, cover, overstory, fire management, fuel management, croplands, deciduous forests, grasslands, shrublands, savannas, tropical forest
A high-intensity wildfire burnt through a dry Eucalyptus forest in south-eastern Australia that had been fuel reduced with fire 3 months prior, presenting a unique opportunity to measure the effects of fuel reduction (FR) on forest carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: charcoal, fuel reduction, biomass, greenhouse gases, Australia, emission factors, C - carbon, modified combustion action, fine fuels, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fuel accumulation, heavy fuels, surface fuels, wildfires, air quality, ground cover, litter, shrubs, size classes, snags, understory vegetation, eucalyptus, Victoria, fire management, forest management, fuel management, sclerophyll forests
Fire behaviour in Victorian forests on Black Saturday on 7th February 2009 was characterised by fast moving crown fires in eucalypt forest, accompanied by frequent medium-long range fire brand spotting, and deep and intense pyro-convective smoke plumes. Factors contributing to…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire severity, effectiveness, fuel treatment, Australia, extreme fire weather, Black Saturday fires, crown fires, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire weather, rate of spread, firebrands, photography, eucalyptus, Victoria, fire management, fuel management
The analysis of large forest and peat fires, the peculiarities of their development and the impact on the environment is conducted. The main characteristics of forest fires are considered. The thermal characteristics and evaluation of the heat generation of large forest fires…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: peat fires, air pollution, Russia, forest fires, combustion products, fire damage (property), fire frequency, fire size, wildfires, air quality, pollution, fire management, forest management
The need to accurately predict pollution from wildland fires is acute and, in fact, the lack of such information has become a major obstacle in the prescribed fire authorization process. WRF and SFIRE model wildland fire spread in a two-way interaction with the atmosphere. The…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: case studies, Santa Ana, air pollution, ozone, smoke dispersion, smoke transport, WRF-Chem, WRF-SFIRE, SFIRE, wildland fire simulation, fire case histories, fuel moisture, wildfires, air quality, organic matter, fire management, smoke management
Wildland fires have increased in extent and severity in recent years. At the same time, the number of people living in harm's way has increased dramatically. This has not only resulted in more people and private property potentially at risk from future fire events, but also an…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke management, public perceptions, social acceptability
Wildfire is among the most common forest disturbances, affecting the structure, composition, and functions of many ecosystems. The complex role that wildfire plays in shaping forests has been described in terms of vegetation responses, which are characterized as dependent on,…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire frequency, fire weather, climate change, KBDI - Keetch-Byram Drought Index, mitigation, wildfire, future fire activity
We simulated public health forecast-based interventions during a wildfire smoke episode in rural North Carolina to show the potential for use of modeled smoke forecasts toward reducing the health burden and showed a significant economic benefit of reducing exposures. Daily and…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: North Carolina, wildfires, public health, smoke forecasting, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, health risk, economic impacts, mortality, asthma, interventions, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, smoke effects, air quality, health factors, pollution, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, smoke management
[from the text] The methodology for this assessment (Zhu and others, 2010) explicitly addressed ecosystem disturbances, including human- and natural-caused wildland fires, as required by the EISA (U.S. Congress, 2007). Estimates for the baseline and projected biomass combustion…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: area burned, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, wildfires, topography, climate change, ignition, fire spread
The purpose of this workshop is to learn about and discuss various aspects of smoke management associated with wildland fire in the Southwestern United States. Wildland fire encompasses prescribed fire and wildfire. Topics include fire ecology and technical tools; health and…
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Year: 2014
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: SWFSC - Southwest Fire Science Consortium, smoke management, smoke modeling, air quality
Consume is a decision-making tool designed to assist resource managers in planning for wildland fire events (e.g., prescribed fires and wildfires). Consume predicts fuel consumption, pollutant emissions, and heat release based on fuel loadings, fuel moisture, and other…
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Year: 2014
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: duff consumption, FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, fuel moisture, piled fuels, woody fuel consumption, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, southern pine forests, eastern mixed hardwood forests, Consume 4.2, shrub consumption, forest floor consumption, FFT - Fuel and Fire Tools
[From description] Earth is the only planet known to have fire. The reason is both simple and profound: fire exists because Earth is the only planet to possess life as we know it. Fire is an expression of life on Earth and an index of life's history. Few processes are as…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords:
This website gives you access to the rich tools and resources available for the text 'Fire on Earth: An Introduction' by Andrew C. Scott, David M.J.S. Bowman, William J. Bond, Stephen J. Pyne and Martin E. Alexander. It includes: powerpoints of all figures from the book for…
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Year: 2014
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords:
Canada's NWT burned over 7 million acres in 2014. What were the indications (drought codes, forecasts, fuel moisture) to alert managers that they were in for a record-breaking season? How well did pre- and early-season Fuel Moisture Indices reflect the fire risk? What were the…
Person: Archibald
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: fire weather, fuel moisture, climate change, drought, fire prediction, AO - Arctic Oscillation, Northwest Territories, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, polar vortex
From the Prescribed Fire in the Mid-South conference held June 4-5, 2014 in Crossville, TN
Person: Varner
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: biodiversity, disturbance, fire frequency, fire regime, grazing, public acceptance, collaboration, hazard reduction, invasive species, prescribed fire councils, wildlife habitat, fire-dependent species, Mid-South