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In October-November 2011 we measured trace gas emission factors from seven prescribed fires in South Carolina (SC), US, using two Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR) systems and whole air sampling (WAS) into canisters followed by gas-chromatographic analysis. A total…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: trace gas emissions, biomass burning
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, combustion, computer programs, fuel models, Oregon, sampling, smoke behavior, smoke management
The DEASCO3 project will produce analytical results and a dynamic and accessible technical tool which enables Federal Land Managers (FLM) to participate more fully in ozone air quality planning efforts. We will turn complex technical analyses of a series of well-chosen historic…
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Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, ozone
The objective of this project is to calculate the sensitivities of pollutant concentrations, predicted with air quality models, to meteorological inputs and apply these estimates to quantify meteorology-related uncertainty in fire simulations. The results of this work will…
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Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, simulation, forecasting, meteorology, pollution, CMAQ - Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System, WRF - Weather Research and Forecasting
The combination of drought, fire suppression, and past harvesting has produced forests that are susceptible to high-severity wildfire in the Sierra Nevada. Given the current need of fuel treatment implementation, there are few quantitative studies that evaluate the effects of…
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Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra Nevada, treatment effects, carbon budgets, mixed conifer forest
Researchers from the University of California at Riverside and the USDA Forest Service (FS) are proposing a study to understand the processes that govern the formation of 'superfog', which is associated with low intensity, smoldering fires. This study is designed to complement a…
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Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: low intensity burns, smoke plumes, smoldering fires, laboratory experiments, superfog
The proposal addresses JFSP AFP-2008-1, Task 6, Smoke and Emissions Models Evaluation. Wildland fire is a significant source of fine particulate matter (e.g. PM2.5, particles· with a diameter less than 2.5 Jlm) and volatile organic compounds that can contribute to ozone (03)…
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Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, air pollution, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5 airborne concentrations, smoke transport, SEMIP - Smoke and Emissions Model Intercomparison Project
This project reviews the essential ingredients of a modeling system for projecting smoke consequences in a rapidly warming climate that is expected to change wildfire regimes significantly. We present relevant details of each component of the system, offer suggestions for the…
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Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: ecosystem change, IPCC scenarios
We propose to hold a workshop to train approximately ten smoke modeling specialists who would be available thereafter to support wildland fire incidents on a regional scale, similar to the role the AirFire Team played for the 2011 fires in the Southwestern US. The workshop will…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, tools, workshops, smoke forecasting
Smoke emissions and dispersion from low intensity and smoldering fires are not well characterized by existing models. The 2008 fires in the organic soils of North Carolina and the extensive fires in California adjacent to heavily populated urban centers have demonstrated the…
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Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): California, Southern
Keywords: North Carolina, low intensity burns, smoke dispersion, smoldering
Smoke emissions from wild and prescribed fires can be a significant contributor to regional haze and to urban and regional air pollution. Fires directly emit particulate matter; they also emit gases that react in the atmosphere to form secondary organic aerosol (SOA). There is…
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Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, air pollution, regional haze, particulate matter (PM) emissions, organic aerosols
This webinar, by Roger Ottmar and Susan Prichard on December 12, 2013, presents the fuel consumption data collected from 18 prescribed fires in southern pine forest and sand pine scrub fuelbed types in the Southeastern United States, and from 11 mixed hardwoods and pitch pine…
Person: Ottmar, Prichard
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Planning
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: fuel consumption
In this webinar researchers describe ongoing research in Oregon and California on public perceptions of wildland and prescribed fire smoke. They focus on identifying factors that influence perceptions of smoke, and how communication in various forms may influence those…
Person: Olsen, Toman, Frederick, Rose
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, public acceptance, public perceptions, public survey
There will be dramatic changes to most landscapes of the western US over the next century, such as shifts in vegetation communities, changes in fire regimes, and increases in smoke emissions. These changes will result from complex interactions among vegetation, fuels, fire, and…
Person: Keane
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, climate change, climate-fire interactions, landscape modeling, tipping point
This is the third presentation held on the first day of the 2013 National Logistics Webinar Series. Pete Lahm, US Forest Service and George Broyles, US Forest Service discuss an emerging program and effort dealing with wildfire air quality response. This webinar originally aired…
Person: Lahm, Broyles
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: firefighter health, smoke exposure, public health, superfog, air quality impacts, transportation safety
This video is the third in a series describing fire in the Great Plains. The series features ranchers in the region and local experts discussing prescribed fire. This video focuses on challenges land owners face when using prescribed fire. Ranchers talk about how they overcome…
Person: Moore
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: burn plans, public perception, smoke management, prairie management
Prescribed fire is one tool used for treating fuels and achieving natural resources objectives in dry mixed conifer forests. However, the use of fire is never straightforward and always contains elements of uncertainty and complexity. The process is far more complex than using…
Person: Battaglia, Jain, Graham
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: fire damage, LANDFIRE, mastication, burn plans, dry mixed-conifer forest, forest change, near miss, fuel loads, fuels treatments, NRFSN - Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
Presentation by Dr. Carol Blocksome, Kansas State University, at the 2013 Tallgrass Prairie & Oak Savanna Regional Fire Conference in Dubuque, Iowa.
Person: Blocksome
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, Kansas, smoke management plan, outreach strategy
Presentation by Matt Zine, Conservation Biologist with Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Recorded at the 2013 Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Regional Fire Conference in Dubuque, Iowa.
Person: Zine
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: invasive plants, Wisconsin, fire suppression effects
Presentation by Casey Sullivan, Meteorologist and Forecaster with the National Weather Service Chicago/Romeoville office. Recorded at the 2013 Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Regional Fire Conference in Dubuque, Iowa.
Person: Sullivan
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: inversion, mixing height, smoke dispersion, relative humidity, transport winds, ventilation rate
A discussion of the use of prescribed fire adjacent to populated areas. Presented by Glen Gillman at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for Range Management in Oklahoma City, February 2013.
Person: Gillman
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: public awareness, Texas, urban fire
Roger Ottmar has a long and distinguished career studying forest fuel consumption and emissions. He presented this talk at the RX410 Smoke Management Techniques class March 25-29, 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska. This 30 minute module (RX410 Unit 8B) covers smoke production,…
Person: Ottmar
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel loading, photo series, emission estimates, emission factor, fuel consumption, pollutants, dispersion models, fuel bed
Roger Ottmar has a long and distinguished career studying forest fuel consumption and emissions. He presented this talk at the RX410 Smoke Management Techniques class March 25-29, 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska. This 30 minute module (RX410 Unit 8A) covers fire fuels, consumption and…
Person: Ottmar
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: combustion, fuel moisture, fuel size, glowing combustion phase, pyrolysis, smoldering, fuel consumption, dispersion models
Heidi Strader presented this talk on weather conditions important to smoke management in prescribed fire planning at the RX410 Smoke Management Techniques class March 25-29, 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska. This introductory (RX410 Unit 7) talk covers weather terms definitions, effects…
Person: Strader
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: atmospheric stability, inversion, lapse rate, lifting processes, marine inversion, smoke dispersion, subsidence inversion, wind shear, parcel model theory, adiabatic lapse rate
Roger Ottmar led numerous field studies on the effects of smoke on firefighter health. He presented this talk at the RX410 Smoke Management Techniques class March 25-29, 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska. This 30 minute module (RX410 Unit 5B) covers effects of various smoke components…
Person: Ottmar
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: firefighter safety, PM - particulate matter, risk management, smoke management, firefighter health, smoke exposure, health effects