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This work presents the dynamics of fire occurrences, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, forest clearing, and degradation in the Brazilian Amazon during the period 2006–2019, which includes the approval of the new Brazilian Forest Code in 2012. The study was carried out in the…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: Brazil, Amazon, rainforest, forest degradation, greenhouse gas emissions, remote sensing, deforestation
Smoke from fires significantly influences climate, weather, and human health. Fire smoke is traditionally detected using an aerosol index calculated from spectral contrast changes. However, such methods usually miss thin smoke plumes. It also remains challenging to accurately…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: smoke detection, aerosol index, aerosol scattering, spectral signature, spatial standard deviation, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite
Many large grass fires occurred in north Texas and southern Oklahoma on 9 April 2009, destroying hundreds of homes and businesses and burning thousands of acres of grasslands, producing large smoke and debris plumes that were visible from various remote sensing platforms. At the…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: satellite observations, radar observations, remote sensing, fire detection, grass fire
Radar observations of wild fire plumes in Oklahoma carried out with the prototype of dual polarization S-band WSR-88D weather radar are presented. The observations show that the copolar correlation coefficients between horizontally and vertically polarized returns in the plumes…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire detection, fire plumes, remote sensing
Stratospheric aerosol, temperature and ozone anomalies after the 2020 Australian bushfires are documented from satellite observations. Aerosol extinction is enhanced in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) lower stratosphere (LS) in early 2020, comparable in magnitude to the Calbuco…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: stratospheric aerosol, stratospheric temperature, stratospheric temperature, O3 - ozone, Australia, wildfire, polar vortex
It is predicted that under a warming climate, wildfire frequency will likely increase. The increase in fire activity is hypothesized as a likely consequence of increased atmospheric CO2-driven climate warming having the potential to influence fire weather and increase ignition…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, wildfires, charcoal, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Inertinite, fire frequency, wildfire activity, fossils
Wildfire activity is increasing in the western United States at a time when outdoor recreation is growing in popularity. Because peak outdoor recreation and wildfire seasons overlap, fires can disrupt recreation and expose people to poor air quality. We link daily data on…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: outdoor recreation, wildfire, air pollution, public lands, national parks, air quality, smoke impacts
'Fire Research at the Science–Policy–Practitioner Interface' is a Section of the fully open access journal Fire. The main aim of the Section is to highlight research seeking to assess operational approaches to wildland fire management, and to facilitate the sharing of…
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, 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
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Fire is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal about the science, policy, and technology of fires and how they interact with communities and the environment, broadly defined, published quarterly online by MDPI. Fire serves as an international forum for diverse…
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, 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
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Increased prescribed burning is needed to provide a diversity of public benefits, including wildfire hazard reduction, improved forest resilience, and biodiversity conservation. Though rare, escaped burns or significant smoke impacts may result in harm to individuals and…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: disaster funds, escaped fires, natural hazards, negligence, fire hazard reduction
Forest fires are still a large concern in several countries due to the social, environmental and economic damages caused. This paper aims to show the design and validation of a proposed system for the classification of smoke columns with object detection and a deep learning-…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke detection, fire detection, wildfires, deep learning, Portugal
In recent years, the pan-Arctic region has experienced increasingly extreme fire seasons. Fires in the northern high latitudes are driven by current and future climate change, lightning, fuel conditions, and human activity. In this context, conceptualizing and parameterizing…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: climate change, Arctic, wildfires, AMAP - Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, black carbon, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, fire management
In the austral summer period, Dec 7, 2019 to Mar 1, 2020, which included unprecedented bushfire activity, total suspended particulate concentrations of methanesulfonate (MSA), oxalate, labile iron, SO42−, Cl−, Na+, K+, NH4+, water soluble solids (WSS) and water soluble organic…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, Sydney, methanesulfonate, oxalate, bushfires, iron, dust, WSOC - water soluble organic carbon, PM2.5
Objectives: To determine healthcare service utilisation for cardiorespiratory presentations and outpatient salbutamol dispensation associated with 2.5 months of severe, unabating wildfire smoke in Canada’s high subarctic.
Design: A retrospective cohort study using hospital,…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, subarctic, air quality, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, cardiorespiratory disease, human health, wildfire, NWT - Northwest Territories, hospital admissions, asthma, pneumonia
This report presents key findings, conclusions, and recommendations from a longitudinal research study on wildfire preparedness and evacuation planning in a pandemic (CONVERGE 2020).
The research aim was to understand the social, ecological, and public health dimensions of…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: wildfire, preparedness, evacuation, COVID-19, pandemics, risk perception
An intensified pattern of wildfire is emerging in Alaska as rapidly increasing temperatures and longer growing seasons alter the state's environment. Both tundra and Boreal forest regions are seeing larger and more frequent fires. The impacts of these fires are felt across the…
Person: Grabinski
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: climate change, wildfire management, annual area burned, seasonal fires, human-caused fires, lightning, duff, mean annual temperature, MAP - mean annual precipitation, fire season length, fire return interval, wildfire preparedness
A 10-year review of accidents and incidents within the USDA Forest Service wildland fire system.
This document seeks to describe the wildland fire system and culture within which U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service employees operate. To do so, this review presents a…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
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As humans increasingly dominate the nitrogen cycle, deposition of reactive nitrogen (Nr) will continue to have adverse consequences for ecosystems. In the Rocky Mountains, Nr deposition remains elevated and has become increasingly dominated by ammonium, despite efforts to reduce…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: N - nitrogen, nitrogen deposition, Colorado Front Range, wildfire, nitrogen transport
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is hosting a webinar in collaboration with the Washington State Department of Ecology to present on the changes to the Smoke Management Plan (SMP) since the SEPA public comment period in 2019 and changes in recent…
Person: Zirkle, Hankins
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: smoke management plan, Washington DNR Smoke Management Plan, Washington, silvicultural burning, UGA - urban growth area, air quality, SIP - state implementation plan
The Australian bushfires around the turn of the year 2020 generated an unprecedented perturbation of stratospheric composition, dynamical circulation and radiative balance. Here we show from satellite observations that the resulting planetary-scale blocking of solar radiation by…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, wildfires, vortex, atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric dynamics, natural hazards, bushfires, pyro-Cb, pyro-cumulonimbus, remote sensing
Presenter: Russ Schumacher, Associate Professor of Meteorology, Colorado State Climatologist
This webinar is part of the Colorado Wildfires 2020 Webinar Series hosted by the Colorado State University, the Southern Rockies Fire Science Network and the Forest Stewards Guild.…
Person: Schumacher
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: drought, wildfires, Colorado, 2020 fire season, annual precipitation, climate change, air temperature, SPI - Standardized Precipitation Index, Evaporative Demand Drought Index, air quality
Wildland fires (WLF) have become more frequent, larger, and severe with greater impacts to society and ecosystems and dramatic increases in firefighting costs. Forests throughout the range of ponderosa pine in Oregon and Washington are jeopardized by the interaction of…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: wildland fire, Oregon, Washington, ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa, resistance, resilience, drought
Wildfires have frequently occurred in the western United States (US) during the summer and fall seasons in recent years. This study measures the PM2.5 infiltration factor in seven residences recruited from five dense communities in Seattle, Washington, during a 2020 wildfire…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, wildfire, wood smoke, portable air cleaners, indoor air quality, Seattle, infiltration
Wildfires can have rapid and long-term effects on air quality, human health, climate change, and the environment. Smoke from large wildfires can travel long distances and have a harmful effect on human health, the environment, and climate in other areas. More recently, in 2018–…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest, International
Keywords: air pollution, CALIPSO, Sentinel-5P, biomass burning, black carbon, Brazil, Australia
Wildfire occurrence and severity in the Mediterranean region during the summer season is increasing, being favoured by climate change-induced conditions (i.e., drought, heatwaves). Moreover, additional natural sources frequently impact this region, particularly Saharan dust…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Mediterranean basin, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, PM10, Saharan dust, natural, source, NAAPS - Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT), WRF - Weather Research and Forecasting