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In an effort to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning, renewable energy policies incentivize use of forest biomass as an energy source. Many governments have assumed (legislated) the carbon flux from burning biomass to be neutral because biomass growth sequesters CO2.…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, air quality, biomass, carbon dioxide, biogeochemical cycles, climate change, energy, fire management, forest management, bioenergy, climate change, forestry, life cycle analysis, discounting
As a part of the EUCAARI and IS4FIRES projects, a prescribed burning experiment was conducted near the SMEAR II station in Hyytiala, Finland, on 26 June 2009. The ground-level concentrations of the smoke at different distances from the burn area were measured by a mobile…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: experimental fires, aerosols, gases, particulates, Finland, Europe, fire management, forest management, smoke management, boreal forests
The effects of fire on the vegetation vary across continents. However, in Neotropical fire-prone grasslands, the relationship between fire and seed germination is still poorly understood, while their regeneration, especially after strong anthropogenic disturbance, is challenging…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: laboratory fires, post fire recovery, smoke effects, herbaceous vegetation, regeneration, seed dormancy, seed germination, temperature, Cyperaceae, Poaceae, Brazil, South America, fire management, range management, grasslands, tropical regions, fire-related sermination, neotropical grassland, physiological dormancy, temperature fluctuation
Given the increase in wildfire intensity and frequency worldwide, prescribed burning is becoming a more common and widespread practice. Prescribed burning is a fire management tool used to reduce fuel loads for wildfire suppression purposes and occurs on an annual basis in many…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, health factors, particulates, pollution, Victoria, Australia, fire management, smoke management
Smoldering peat fires in Indonesia are responsible for large quantities of trace gas and particulate emissions. However, to date no satellite remote sensing technique has been demonstrated for the identification of smoldering peat fires. Fires have two distinct combustion phases…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: peat fires, air quality, gases, particulates, remote sensing, Indonesia, Asia, fire management, forest management, peatlands, Landsat, fire eetection, peat fire, smoldering, flaming, Indonesia
Prescribed burning is a forest management practice that is widely used in Australia to reduce the risk of damaging wildfires. Prescribed burning can affect both carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling in the forest and thereby influence the soil-atmosphere exchange of major…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Prescribed Fire, Fire Effects, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: greenhouse gases, Australia
The International Smoke Symposium was held in Hyattsville, Maryland at the University of Maryland University College, USA, October 21-24, 2013. The objective of this symposium was to bring together air quality, fire, and smoke specialists from the research community, non-…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: conference proceedings, fire management, smoke management, smoke exposure
Large fires or 'megafires' have been a major topic in wildland fire research and management for over a decade. There is great debate regarding the impacts of large fires. Many believe that they (1) are occurring too frequently, (2) are burning abnormally large areas, (3) cause…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire management, social consequences, political consequences
We estimated emissions of carbon, as equivalent CO2 (CO2e), from planned fires in four sites in a south-eastern Australian forest. Emission estimates were calculated using measurements of fuel load and carbon content of different fuel types, before and after burning, and…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, C - carbon, fuel loading, air quality, litter, Victoria, fire management, forest management
Wildfires release substantial quantities of carbon (C) into the atmosphere but they also convert part of the burnt biomass into pyrogenic organic matter (PyOM). This is richer in C and, overall, more resistant to environmental degradation than the original biomass, and,…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Prescribed Fire, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: experimental fires, wildfires, C - carbon, charcoal, organic matter, Pinus banksiana, jack pine, Northern Territory of Australia, Canada, fire management, forest management, boreal forests, coniferous forests, biochar, black carbon, boreal forest, carbon emissions, charcoal, firesmart experimental fire, pyrogenic carbon
Prescribed burning is a forest management practice that is widely used in Australia to reduce the risk of damaging wildfires. Prescribed burning can affect both carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling in the forest and thereby influence the soil-atmosphere exchange of major…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, low intensity burns, Australia, Queensland, air quality, C - carbon, greenhouse gases, CH4 - methane, N - nitrogen, fire management, forest management