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CO2 efflux from tropical peat swamp substrates was measured under three different land uses (selectively logged forest, recently burned and cleared forest, and agriculture) in Jambi Province, eastern Sumatra over a six-month period that incorporated parts of both the major wet…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, carbon dioxide, clearcutting, fire management, climate change, Indonesia, land use, logging, peat, peatlands, remote sensing, soil management, soil temperature, soils, Sumatra, temperature, tropical regions, wildfires, greenhouse gas emissions, forest fires, tropical soil respiration
Fire is a natural phenomenon in Madrean Province ecosystems. Suppression of natural fire has altered ecosystem processes, however. Recognition of these alterations has led to the adoption of let-burn policies by many management agencies, but a let-burn policy has become less…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Southwest
Keywords: aesthetics, Arizona, catastrophic fires, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, fuel loading, health factors, herbaceous vegetation, hydrology, liability, lightning caused fires, Madrean habitats, national forests, national parks, plant growth, population density, prescribed fires (chance ignition), private lands, public information, seed production, smoke effects, thinning, water quality, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, natural fire, public safety, public lands, UNINFORMED PUBLIC
From the Executive Summary ... 'Over 2,000 wildfires burned 500,000 acres of Florida real estate, most of it between May and mid July, 1998. Although virtually every county was impacted, the fires were concentrated in the northeast quadrant defined by boundaries extending north…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Aphelocoma coerulescens, catastrophic fires, Deeringothamnus rugelii, droughts, education, fire damage (property), Florida, fragmentation, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fungi, Georgia, GIS, habitat suitability, health factors, herbicides, human caused fires, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Leptographium, lightning, lightning caused fires, mortality, national forests, overstory, partial cutting, pine forests, plant diseases, plantations, public information, storms, suppression, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), wildfires, wildlife refuges, BEHAVE, PREDICTORS OF EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR, HOME PROTECTION STRATEGIES, anthropogenic factors
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Canada, fire management, Quebec, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, forest fire, aerosol optical depth, Angstrom exponent
A year-long sampling and analysis of 24 h airborne particles equal to or less than 10 mm (
Person:
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, chemistry, diseases, fire frequency, fire intensity, humidity, hydrocarbons, Mexico, Mexico City, organic matter, particulates, pollution, sampling, season of fire, smoke management
From the text ... 'One of the challenges for all smoke dispersion and impact models is to characterize the accuracy of their prediction of smoke trajectories, concentration of pollutants, and duration of impacts.... Understanding the needs and requirements of the model users is…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, Georgia, smoke effects, smoke management, South Carolina, wildfires
From the text ... 'Before lighting a prescribed fire on the Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forests, fire managers rely on Tom Robison to check air quality in several of the nearby small towns. Using data from a network of real-time smoke monitors, Robison helps fire managers…
Person:
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, computer programs, fire management, forest management, Montana, national forests, particulates, smoke behavior, smoke management, telemetry, Washington, wildfires
From the text ... 'To mitigate and reduce downstream smoke complaints, clients in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere have used BlueSky and BlueSky-RAINS on prescribed burns for go/no-go decisions and timing.... Failure to meet air quality obligations can lead to more stringent…
Person:
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky, Fire Consortia for the Advanced Modeling of Meteorology and Smoke (FCAMMS), fire management, forest management, fuel management, GIS, smoke behavior, smoke management, wind
Visibility impairment from regional haze is a significant problem throughout the continental United States. A substantial portion of regional haze is produced by smoke from prescribed and wildland fires. Here we describe the integration of four simulation models, an array of GIS…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, distribution, ENSO, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, flammability, GIS, Idaho, ignition, Michigan, national parks, Oregon, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, Washington, wilderness areas, wildfires, Wyoming, regional haze, integrated models, fire regimes, smoke dispersion
Results from two independently developed biomass-burning smoke plume models are compared. Model results were obtained for the temporal evolution of two nascent smoke plumes originating from significantly different fire environments (an Alaskan boreal forest and an African…
Person:
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, Great Basin, Northwest, International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, biomass, boreal forests, coniferous forests, evolution, fire management, gases, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, mosaic, ozone, savannas, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke management, South Africa, statistical analysis, wildfires, biomass burning, computational modeling, intercomparison, tropospheric chemistry
Biomass burning from forest regions and agriculture crop residues can emit substantial amounts of particulate matter and other pollutants into the atmosphere. An inventory of forest, grassland and agricultural burning is important for studies related to global change. This study…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Asia, biomass, broadcast burning, croplands, fire management, gases, climate change, grasslands, India, particulates, range management, remote sensing, statistical analysis, biomass burning, cereal waste, gases and particle emissions, field burning, global change
Unusual air pollution episodes, such as when smoke from wildfires covers a large urban area, can be used to attempt to detect associations between short-term increases in particulate matter (PM) concentrations and subsequent mortality without relying on the sophisticated…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: aerosols, CO - carbon monoxide, Colorado, cover, health factors, mortality, particulates, pollution, smoke effects, wildfires, wind, air pollution, mortality, particulate matter, forest fires, cardiovascular disease
The accuracy with which park managers can predict the behavior, spread, and effects of individual fires will be increasingly critical to decisions on when and where to burn. Models to predict fuel accumulation and consumption, fire spread, smoke production, and the effects of…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Southwest
Keywords: air quality, Arizona, coniferous forests, dendrochronology, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, lightning caused fires, national parks, Nevada, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, reproduction, Sequoiadendron giganteum , Sierra Nevada, succession
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, Argentina, Asia, bibliographies, biogeochemical cycles, biogeography, biomass, Brazil, Canada, crown fires, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, grasslands, India, Indonesia, Mediterranean habitats, Nepal, Philippines, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, plantations, savannas, sedimentation, tropical forests, Vietnam, wildfires
Experimental studies and mesoscale modeling of atmospheric chemistry require a good knowledge of the sources of the atmospheric constituent, at a temporal scale of about one hour and at a spatial scale corresponding to the model grid. A combined remote sensing/modeling approach…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, biomass, chemical elements, chemistry, distribution, fire frequency, fuel appraisal, gases, climate change, ignition, land management, rate of spread, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, shrublands, statistical analysis
Abundant charcoal in forest soils gives evidence of prehistoric and historic natural and anthropogenic wildfires in perhumid lowland and in seasonal Dipterocarp forest types of continental and insular South Asia. Favorable conditions for the occurrence of historic and…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Weather, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, agriculture, Asia, biomass, Borneo, charcoal, chemical elements, chemistry, Dipterocarpus, droughts, ENSO, fire intensity, fire regimes, forest management, forest types, human caused fires, soils, tropical forests, wildfires, wood chemistry
Drought indexes are not designed to measure fuel moistures, rather they indicate environmental conditions that affect fuel profiles. Management should consider that the mid-to upper-600 range is the limit of acceptability for igniting prescribed fires of any type unless specific…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: droughts, duff, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, fuel appraisal, fuel moisture, litter, moisture, pine forests, precipitation, season of fire, smoke management, soil organic matter, soils, understory vegetation
From the Overwiew...'VSMOKE is primarily a tool for analyzing the effects of a single prescribed fire. Using an emissions source geometrically configured to match that presented to the atmosphere by a prescribed fire, the program estimates smoke concentrations and crossplume…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: air quality, coastal plain, computer programs, croplands, fire management, Florida, humidity, liability, particulates, roads, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, weather observations, wildfires, wind
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Eastern, International
Keywords: Abies spp., Acer saccharinum, agriculture, air quality, Artemisia, Betula alleghaniensis, boreal forests, Canada, Carpinus, Carya, Castanea dentata, charcoal, Corylus, crown fires, deciduous forests, ecosystem dynamics, Fagus grandifolia, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire frequency, fire regimes, fire scar analysis, fossils, Fraxinus, Fraxinus americana, ignition, lakes, leaves, Minnesota, moisture, New York, Ontario, Ostrya, paleobotany, paleoecology, particulates, Picea, pine hardwood forests, Pinus banksiana, Pinus resinosa, Pinus strobus, Plantago, pollen, Populus, Quercus, Quercus alba, Quercus rubra, Quercus velutina, Rumex, sedimentation, senescence, site treatments, statistical analysis, Tilia americana, Tsuga, Tsuga canadensis, Ulmus, xeric soils, charcoal analysis, climate change, eastern deciduous forest, forest dynamics, pollen analysis, western New York state, VARVE THICKNESS, MIXED HARDWOODS, ARBOREAL POLLEN
From the introduction: Let me emphasize that I only claim to speak with authority about the task of restoring fire to the National Forests. Private landowners have their own special problems in using prescribed fire, size of forest tracts, lack of expertise, etc. Before we can…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: eastern forests, fire management, historic fire use, public education, oak forests, prescribed fire program, catastrophic fires, education, fire frequency, fire size, forest management, grasslands, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, Native Americans, public information, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
Before using a fluid dynamics physically based wildfire model to study wildfire, validation is necessary and model results need to be systematically and objectively analyzed and compared to real fires, which requires suitable data sets. Observational data from the Meteotron…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire plumes, FDS - Fire Dynamics Simulator, Clark coupled model, Meteotron experiment , fire management, fire models, statistical analysis, temperature
The mesoscale meteorological model MEMO was applied to a real fire situation, which occurred in the central area of Portugal, with a very complex topography. In order to numerically provide boundary values at a higher temporal and spatial resolution, a one-way nesting technique…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: forest fire, Portugal, wind simulations, mesoscale model, complex terrain, air quality, air temperature, biogeography, climatology, Foehn winds, forest management, gases, humidity, Mediterranean habitats, nesting, rate of spread, sampling, statistical analysis, topography, wildfires, wind
The Research and Development (R&D) arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service works at the forefront of science to improve the health and use of our Nation's forests and grasslands. Research has been part of the Forest Service mission since the agency's…
Person:
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Forest Service, research, research accomplishment report
During 2005, the USDA Forest Service celebrated its Centennial, recognizing 100 years of successfully caring for the land and serving people. The Rocky Mountain Research Station has been, and continues to be, an integral part of the Forest Service mission, dating back to the…
Person:
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: Forest Service, research, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Recent predictions that tropospheric aerosols have counterbalanced greenhouse warming assume aerosol emissions were low before ad1850 and then increased dramatically with industrialization of the Northern Hemisphere and biomass burning in the Tropics. We assembled the lake…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Eastern, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, charcoal, land use, aerosols, climate change, Northeast, biomass burning, deciduous forest, lake sediment, Midwest United States, Central Plains, air temperature, biomass, climatology, fire case histories, gases, lakes, land management, land use, sedimentation, Quebec, smoke effects, statistical analysis, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, wildfires