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Prescribed burnings are conducted in Queensland each year from August until November aiming to decrease the impact of bushfire hazards and maintain the health of vegetation. This study reports chemical characteristics of the ambient aerosol, with a focus on source apportionment…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, Australia, Queensland, aerosols, air quality, hydrocarbons, fire management, forest management, air quality, biomass burning, Organic Aerosol, Aerosol Mass Spectrometry, source apportionment, positive matrix factorization, Submicron Organic Aerosols, biomass burning emissions, Factor-Analytic Models, Mass-Spectrometer Data, source apportionment, Multilinear Engine, Urban Air, Secondary, components
In this paper we analyse the extent of fire-induced forest degradation in Mato Grosso State, Brazil. We utilise a sample based approach used in a previous pan-tropical deforestation survey to derive information on land cover and burned areas in the two major biomes of Mato…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire size, season of fire, wildfires, Amazon, Brazil, South America, cover, deforestation, forest fragmentation, sampling, fire management, forest management, cerrado, tropical forests, forest fires, Landsat, sampling, tropical forest, satellite data, Cover Changes, rainforests, deforestation, Landsat, MODIS, classification, patterns, savanna
The savanna biome has the greatest burned area globally. Whereas the global distribution of most biomes can be predicted successfully from climatic variables, this is not so for savannas. Attempts to dynamically model the distribution of savannas, including a realistically…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Africa, South Africa, distribution, grasses, national parks, precipitation, fire management, forest management, savannas, African Biome Distribution, Demographic Bottleneck Hypothesis, Dynamic Vegetation Models, LPJ-GUESS, Tree:Grass Ratio, wildfires, Global Vegetation Model, trace gas emissions, southern Africa, tropical forest, burned area, field data, ecosystems, cover, dynamics
Tropical peatland fires play a significant role in the context of global warming through emissions of substantial amounts of greenhouse gases. However, the state of knowledge on carbon loss from these fires is still poorly developed with few studies reporting the associated mass…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfires, Asia, Indonesia, C - carbon, climate change, drainage, greenhouse gases, remote sensing, fire management, watershed management, peatlands, tropical regions, peat fires, carbon loss, climate change, fires, Indonesia, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, remote sensing, tropical peatlands, land-cover change, Southeast Asia, peat fires, Indonesia, forest, soil, vegetation, Algorithm, severity
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Models, Logistics, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfires, Asia, India, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, vegetation, Algorithm, wildfire, tropics
The Cerrado (Brazilian savanna) is a biodiversity hotspot with a history of fire that goes back as far as 10 million years. Fire has influenced the evolution of several aspects of the vegetation, including reproduction and life cycles. This study tested how fire by-products such…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: heat, Brazil, South America, seed dormancy, seed germination, temperature, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, cerrado, grasslands, savannas, tropical regions, Campo Sujo, fire-prone ecosystem, heat shock, tropical savannas, wet grasslands, heat shock, Brazilian Cerrado, high temperatures, dormancy, Fluctuations, conservation, grasslands, management, plants
Large-scale sea surface temperature (SST) patterns influence the interannual variability of burned area in many regions by means of climate controls on fuel continuity, amount, and moisture content. Some of the variability in burned area is predictable on seasonal timescales…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire size, wildfires, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, temperature, fire management, biomass burning, teleconnection, Seasonal Outlook, mitigation, biomass burning emissions, fire danger forecasts, interannual variability, Southeast Asia, El-Nino, Statistical-Model, wildfire activity, drought, severity
Introduction: Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) emissions from vegetation fires can be transported over long distances and may cause significant air pollution episodes far from the fires. However, epidemiological evidence on health effects of vegetation-fire originated air…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Occurrence, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, smoke effects, wildfires, Europe, Finland, air quality, health factors, mortality, particulates, pollution, vegetation surveys, fire management, smoke management, vegetation fire, air pollution, particulate matter, mortality, hospital admissions
A larger amount of carbon is stored in forest ecosystems than in the entire atmosphere. Thus, relatively small changes in forest carbon stocks can significantly impact net carbon exchange between the biosphere and atmosphere. Changes in forest stocks can result from various…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Asia, China, C - carbon, droughts, fire management, forest management, forest fire, carbon emissions, historical trends, global wildland fire, climate change, terrestrial ecosystems, CO2 emissions, Earth System, land use, biomass, 21st Century, impacts
Wildfire can impose a direct impact on human health under climate change. While the potential impacts of climate change on wildfires and resulting air pollution have been studied, it is not known who will be most affected by the growing threat of wildfires. Identifying…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, Oregon, Great Plains, air quality, climate change, particulates, pollution, fire management, smoke management, fine particles, forest fires, Impact, quality, health, Area, mortality, perspective, management
We apply satellite fire detection products and air quality modeling to study the contribution of fire emissions to ambient aerosol concentrations over the southeastern U.S. We find that satellite MODIS fire counts show more extensive summer burnings than suggested by the bottom-…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: wildfires, aerosols, air quality, remote sensing, fire management, PM2.5, OC, EC, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, Satellite Fire Remote Sensing, secondary organic aerosol, Algorithm, photooxidation, performance, validation
Finding novel ways to plan and implement landscape-level forest treatments that protect sensitive wildlife and other key ecosystem components, while also reducing the risk of large-scale, high-severity fires, can prove to be difficult. We examined alternative approaches to…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Fuels, Fire Occurrence, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Fire Behavior
Region(s): California
Keywords: optimization, fuel treatments, mixed conifer, burn probability, fire spread
Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, 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
Keywords: wildland fires, adaptation, mitigation, resilience, information sharing
Global change models predict that high-latitude boreal forests will become increasingly susceptible to fire activity as climate warms, possibly causing a positive feedback to warming through fire-driven emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere. However, fire-climate feedbacks depend…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: climate warming, C - carbon, N - nitrogen, succession, black spruce, Picea mariana, trembling aspen, Populus tremuloides, paper birch, Betula neoalaskana, deciduous forests, boreal forest, post-fire recovery, wildfires, climate change, overstory, fire management, forest management, Alaskan birch, quaking aspen
A new WRF-CMAQ two-way coupled model was developed to provide a pathway for chemical feedbacks from the air quality model to the meteorological model. The essence of this interaction is focused on the direct radiative effects of scattering and absorbing aerosols in the…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: WRF - Weather Research and Forecasting, CMAQ - Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System, air quality, coupled models, aerosols, AOD - aerosol optical depth, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
Understanding the emissions of mercury (Hg) from wildfires is important for quantifying the global atmospheric Hg sources. Emissions of Hg from soils resulting from wildfires in the Western United States was estimated for the 2000 to 2013 period, and the potential emission of Hg…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: literature review, Hg - mercury, soil temperature, soil heating, fire severity, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, fire intensity, wildfires, fire management, soil management
This paper presents airborne measurements of multiple atmospheric trace constituents including greenhouse gases (such as CO2, CH4, O3) and biomass burning tracers (such as CO, CH3CN) downwind of an exceptionally large wildfire. In summer 2013, the Rim wildfire, ignited just west…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): California
Keywords: wildfires, trace gases, emission factors, enhancement ratios, airborne measurements, greenhouse gases, biomass burning, 2013 Rim Fire, fire case histories, fire size, fire management
The combined use of chemical analysis of organic molecules in atmospheric aerosols (PM1) collected in situ in Barcelona and optical measurements with a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) instrument allowed the characterization of the smoke plume from a wildfire that reached the…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: organic aerosols, levoglucosan, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, FLEXPART, Spain, air quality, biomass burning, wildfires, aerosols, remote sensing, fire management, smoke management, urban habitats
A novel video-based method is proposed for long-distance wildfire smoke detection. Since the long-distance wildfire smoke usually moves slowly and lacks salient features in the video, the detection is still a challenging problem. Unlike many traditional video-based methods that…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke detection, China, MSER - Maximally Stable Extremal Region, region tracking, smoke motion
Prescribed burning is used to reduce the occurrence, extent and severity of uncontrolled fires in many flammable landscapes. However, epidemiologic evidence of the human health impacts of landscape fire smoke emissions is shaping fire management practice through increasingly…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, human health, health effects, wildfires, health impacts, air quality, fire regimes, fuel loading, fire management
[Executive Summary] The Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Act of 2009 (FLAME Act) called for the development of a National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy). The Cohesive Strategy was created to serve as guidance to assist…
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Year: 2016
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
Keywords: wildland fire, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), WFLC - Wildland Fire Leadership Council, fuels management, CPAW - Community Planning Assistance for Wildfire, community planning, wildfire
On the evening of July 30, 2015, 38-year-old Black Hills National Forest Engine Captain David “Dave” Ruhl was entrapped and killed while scouting on foot during initial attack of the Frog Fire on the Modoc National Forest (Region 5, California). A Coordinated Response Team was…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Logistics, Planning, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: Frog Fire, Modoc National Forest, firefighter fatalities, lessons learned, entrapment, fatalities, fire management, fire suppression, training
Carbon farming initiatives have rapidly developed in recent years, influencing broad scale changes to land management regimes. In the open carbon market a premium can be secured if additional benefits, such as biodiversity conservation or social advancement, can be quantified.…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, additionality, carbon markets, carbon farming, ecosystem services, season of fire, PES - Payments for Ecosystem Services
An assessment of outcomes from research projects funded by the Joint Fire Science Program was conducted to determine whether or not science has been used to inform management and policy decisions and to explore factors that facilitate use of fire science. In a web survey and…
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Year: 2016
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
Keywords: fire research, science delivery, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program
Aim: This paper presents a new global burned area (BA) product developed within the framework of the European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative (CCI) programme, along with a first assessment of its potentials for atmospheric and carbon cycle modelling. Innovation: Methods…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire disturbance, burned area, essential climate variables, atmospheric emissions, remote sensing, satellite observations, MERIS, fire size, wildfires, Europe, climatology, disturbance, fire management, forest management