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Deforestation as a result of burning and land conversion in the tropics and subtropics has been widely studied and active restoration of forests has been widely promoted. Besides other benefits, reforestation can sequester carbon thereby reducing CO2 emissions to the atmosphere…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Africa, South Africa, conservation, deforestation, species diversity (plants), succession, fire management, range management, grasslands, Grassland Biodiversity and Function, forest restoration, Underground Storage Organs, Grassland Succession
Exposure to forest fire smoke (FFS) is associated with multiple adverse health effects, mostly respiratory. Findings for cardiovascular effects have been inconsistent, possibly related to the limitations of conventional methods to assess FFS exposure. In previous work, we…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: 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: smoke effects, wildfires, British Columbia, Canada, air quality, health factors, particulates, fire management, smoke management, forest fire smoke, particulate matter, respiratory effects, cardiovascular effects, epidemiology, southern California wildfires, fine particulate matter, Acute Otitis-Media, air pollution, hospital admissions, Cardiovascular-Disease, Australia 1994-2007, health outcomes, Daily Mortality, climate change
Over recent decades, efforts have been made to reduce human exposure to atmospheric pollutants including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) through emission control and abatement. Along with the potential changes in their concentrations…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Australia, Queensland, air quality, hydrocarbons, fire management, smoke management, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, Seasonal Variation, temporal change, Emission Source Profile
In July 2012, two simultaneous wildfires burnt a big area in Valencia (Spain), where a birth cohort study (INMA) is being developed. The heavy smoke covered the whole INMA study area for several days. We aimed at evaluating the 2012 Valencia wildfire effects on the health of…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Europe, Spain, air quality, diseases, health factors, pollution, fire management, wildfire, children, allergy, air pollution, cohort, asthma, Rhinitis, Cardiorespiratory Hospital Admissions, Particulate Air-Pollution, time-series analysis, respiratory symptoms, forest fires, exposure, asthma, firefighters
The composition and distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were studied in organomineral and organic soils of the Meshchera National Park. It was found that the background oligotrophic peat soils unaffected by fires in central parts of the bogs are characterized…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire case histories, peat fires, wildfires, Europe, Russia, hydrocarbons, national parks, soil organic matter, fire management, soil management, watershed management, bogs, Forest and Bog Fires, Pyrogenic Changes of Soils, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, forest fires, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Russia, peat
Highly buoyant plumes, such as wildfire plumes, in low to moderate wind speeds have initial trajectories that are steeper than many industrial waste plumes. They will rise further into the atmosphere before bending significantly. In such cases the plume's trajectory will be…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: flame length, wildfires, wind, fire management, plume, Bent-Over Plume, Highly Buoyant Plume, Fire Plume, wildfire, Near Source Behavior, Cross-Flows, Rise, wind, jet, fires, dispersion
Subtitle: Indonesian peatlands need to be protected and restored to prevent fires and the health, environmental and economic impact that they have on the wider region. © Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire size, wildfires, Asia, Indonesia, air quality, health factors, fire management, smoke management, peatlands, El-Nino, Indonesia, forests
Peat fires in Southeast Asia have become a major annual source of trace gases and particles to the regional–global atmosphere. The assessment of their influence on atmospheric chemistry, climate, air quality, and health has been uncertain partly due to a lack of field…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Indonesia, trace gases, El Niño, peat fires, aerosols
PM2.5 inventories have been developed in major Chinese cities to quantify the contributions from various sources based on annual emissions. This approach, however, could substantially underestimate the contribution from open straw burning during the harvest or other active…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: China, PM2.5, straw burning, anthropogenic burning, air quality
The primary purpose of the Smoke Management Program (SMP) is to mitigate the effects of smoke from forestry related prescribed burning on Smoke Sensitive Areas (SSAs). The primary impetus is the Clean Air Act of 1970 and subsequent amendments in 1977 and 1990. The Clean Air Act…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Eastern
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In Northern Thailand, wildland fire during cold period releases large amounts of smoke and fine particles into the atmosphere. The fine particles include several persistent organic compounds such as PAHs. In this study, PM2.5-bound PAH concentrations in the air of nine…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: Thailand, cancer, wildfire, wildland fire, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, public health
Ambient concentrations of O3, PM2.5, NH3, NO, NO2, HNO3, SO2 and VOCs were measured at Devils Postpile National Monument (DEPO) during the summer seasons of 2013 and 2014. The measurements were impacted by the Aspen and Rim Fires in 2013, and the French and King Fires in 2014.…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: air quality, O3 - ozone, passive sampler, PM2.5, VOC - volatile organic compounds, NO - nitrogen oxide, air pollution
This guide provides direction for planning and managing smoke from prescribed fires to achieve air quality requirements through improved smoke management practices. The Guide applies to all prescribed fires, those started by managers or by nature throughout the Manti-La Sal…
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, backfires, burning permits, coniferous forests, firing techniques, fuel types, health factors, liability, national forests, national parks, plant communities, public information, rangeland fires, rangelands, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, thinning, Utah, watershed management, wilderness areas, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, Yellowstone National Park
From the text...'The purpose of this document is to provide technical information on prescribed burning. It does so in two ways. One, it provides background information useful in determining reasonably available control measures (RACM) and best available control measures (BACM)…
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Arizona, burning permits, Colorado, combustion, education, fire hazard reduction, firing techniques, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, Georgia, Montana, natural resource legislation, North Carolina, Oregon, particulates, public information, slash, smoke behavior, smoke management, US Forest Service, Washington, wind
A devestating conflagration occurred in the scenic hills above the cities of Oakland and Berkeley, California, on October 20, 1991. burning embers carried by high winds from the perimeter of a small but growing duff fire ignited overgrown vegetation and led to the further…
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Mapping, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: catastrophic fires, crown fires, crowns, droughts, duff, education, eucalyptus, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire injuries (humans), fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, fuel loading, grasses, humidity, ignition, Pinus radiata, public information, rate of spread, season of fire, shrubs, sloping terrain, temperature, topography, urban habitats, wildfires, wind
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, biomass, distribution, disturbance, fire frequency, forest fragmentation, grasses, mosaic, particulates, photography, precipitation, remote sensing, savannas, seasonal activities, Tanzania, weather observations, Zambia
From the text...'Prescribed Burning Act of 1990 ... A blue-ribbon committee translated these prescribed burning concerns into proposed legislation that was introduced into the 1990 legislative session. Representative Frances L. "Chance” Irvine and Senator Karen Thurman led the…
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Safety
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, burning intervals, competition, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, education, European settlement, fire dependent species, fire equipment, fire exclusion, fire management, fire protection, fire size, Florida, France, fuel management, grazing, herbaceous vegetation, land management, landscape ecology, liability, livestock, Native Americans, natural resource legislation, nutrient cycling, pollution, prehistoric fires, public information, range management, reforestation, smoke management, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), state forests, state parks, statistical analysis, Stoddard, H.L., Tall Timbers Research Station, wilderness areas, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wildlife management
To demonstrate the usefulness of active remote-sensing systems in observing forest fire behavior, we studied two fires, one using a 3.2-cm-wavelength Doppler radar, and one more extensively, using Doppler lidar. both instrumentS observed the kinematics of the convection column,…
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: ash, Canada, Colorado, convection, distribution, fire management, ignition, mountainous terrain, needles, Ontario, remote sensing, smoke behavior, vortices, wildfires, wind
Airborne studies of smoke from the Kuwait oil fires were carried out in the spring of 1991 when 4.6 million barrels of oil were burning per day. Emissions of sulfur dioxide were 57% of that from electric utilities in the United States; emissions of carbon dioxide were 2% of…
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, combustion, environmental impact analysis, gases, Kuwait, Middle East, particulates, radiation, smoke behavior, smoke effects, soot, statistical analysis, S - sulfur, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, wildfires
Fire behavior on a 2 ha fire, inferred from physical evidence observed one week after the fire, was compared with fire behavior estimates obtained using the BEHAVE fire behavior prediction system and fuel measurements in Imperata cylindrica (Alang-alang) made in the same area.…
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire behavior prediction systems, Indonesia, resprouting, Imperata cylindrica, fuel bed, alang-alang, Acacia mangium, bark, coniferous forests, crown scorch, dead fuels, Eupatorium, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire models, fire suppression, flame length, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, humidity, Imperata cylindrica, Java, live fuels, mortality, plantations, rate of spread, scorch, site classes, soot, statistical analysis, wind
To demonstrate the usefulness of active remote-sensing systems in observing forest fire plume behavior, we studied two fires, one using a 3.2-cm-wavelength Doppler radar, and one more extensively, using Doppler lidar. Both instruments observed the kinematics of the convection…
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: convection column, smoke plume, lidar data, smoke columns, Doppler lidar, Doppler radar
Emission factors for several trace gases were determined using airborne measurements from 13 biomass fires in North America. Emissions of methane (CH4), nonmethane hydrocarbons (NMHC), hydrogen (H2) and ammonia (NH3) were found to be positively correlated with the ratio of…
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, North America, smoke measurements, trace gas emissions, biomass burning, biomass burning emissions inventories, airborne measurements
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: forest health, eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, air quality regulations, prescribed burning restrictions
Major wildfires have affected millions of acres of forest lands in the continental United States during recent years. Many believe the increase in wildfire activity may be the result of fuel accumulations caused by 80 years of fire suppression, combined with drought and trees…
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: wildfire, Cascades Range, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, air quality, Shady Beach Fire, Willamette National Forest, logging slash, broadcast burning, fire severity, clearcuts, woody fuel loading, duff loading, Blue Mountains, Siskiyou National Forest, Silver Fire, Ochoco National Forest, Malheur National Forest, Umatilla National Forest, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, PM2.5
Proceedings from the 1992 annual meeting of Pacific Northwest international section of the Air and Waste Management Association. This was published on electronic media and is not paginated.
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, plume rise, smoke models, plume monitoring