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Air Resource Advisors provide a vast array of tools and products to predict and communicate smoke impacts during wildfires. Having a resource solely dedicated to smoke management and effective messaging improves both internal and external communication.
Person: Lahm
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, smoke management

This session will provide an overview of the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) and a hands-on demonstration on the use of the GWIS viewer. GWIS is an online web application that uses remotely sensed wildfire data. This data includes fire danger, wildfire locations,…
Person: Schmidt, McCullum, Picotte
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: GWIS - Global Wildfire Information System, fire danger, forecast, Rapid Damage Assessment, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite

Presentation to the 33rd Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology/12th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium/Fourth Conference on Biogeosciences. This presentation focuses on emission factors for wildland fire fuels.
Person: O'Neill
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: emission factor, smoke modeling, smoke models

The Twelfth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and organized by the AMS Committee on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, was held 15-18 May 2018 at the Boise Centre, downtown Boise, Idaho. It was concurrently held with the…
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Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire meteorology, forest meteorology, meteorology, meteorology and smoke

The energy flow from a wildland fire is the most important measurable physical quantity. If we understand the time history of the energy flows, we can derive all other fire behavior and fire effects parameters. Dr. Bob Kremens will describe the difficulties in measuring the…
Person: Kremens
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: radiant heat, radiant energy, convection, radiation, fuel consumption, wildfires, conduction, thermal energy, energy transport

AICC Predictive Services meteorologist Heidi Strader provides an outlook for the 2018 fire season in Alaska and reviews the projects that Predictive Services staff have been involved in over the winter to improve their results. From the Spring 2018 Alaska Fire Operations Meeting.
Person: Strader
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: weather prediction, precipitation, winter precipitation, snowpack, temperature, fire season, acres burned, remote sensing, NASA DEVELOP, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, NASA SPoRT, smoke modeling, AKFF - Alaska Fire and Fuels, WFAS - Wildland Fire Assessment System

From the Spring 2017 AFSC Remote Sensing Workshop: Opportunities to Apply Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science.
Person: Jenkins, Butteri, Miller, Slaughter, Ellicott, Heinrichs, Waigl
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: fire intensity, fire perimeter, fire management, plumes

From the Spring 2017 AFSC Remote Sensing Workshop: Opportunities to Apply Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science.
Person: Veraverbeke
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: remote sensing, boreal fire, carbon emissions, burn severity, fire severity, lightning, climate change

From the Spring 2017 AFSC Remote Sensing Workshop: Opportunities to Apply Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science.
Person: Oliva
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Northwest, International
Keywords: remote sensing, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, boreal forest, area burned, NIROPS - National Infrared Operations, Canada

From the Spring 2017 AFSC Remote Sensing Workshop: Opportunities to Apply Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science.
Person: French
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel characteristics, remote sensing, fuel loading, FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, air quality, emissions modeling

Presented by: Mark Smith, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation PowerPoint presentation from the 2019 Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group Interagency Fall Fire Review and Alaska Fire Science Consortium Fall Fire Science Workshop Topics include comparison of air…
Person: Smith
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: air quality, monitoring, Smoke and Health

The WFR-Chem model can produce valuable smoke emissions and fire spread information along with up to a 72 hour smoke forecast. This model can be used by fire and resouce managers, city and borough personnel and others. Feedback is needed for improved graphics and output.
Person: Steufer
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: aerosols, AFSC - Alaska Fire Science Consortium, smoke forecasting, WRF-Chem, wildfire, pollutants, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, WRF-Fire, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

The National Wildfire Coordinating Group’s Smoke Committee with assistance from The Nature Conservancy, held a webinar focused on the emerging world of low-cost air quality sensors. Air quality sensors are a rapidly expanding segment of the air pollutant monitoring world. There…
Person: Benedict, Williams
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air, monitoring, air pollution, smoke monitoring, smoke monitoring network

Presentation to the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee Arctic Data Collaboration Team Meeting September 2016 by Eric Miller on behalf of the Wildfires Collaboration Team.
Person: Miller
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: data, data management, remote sensing, fire management, data gaps, wildfire, Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group, soil moisture, fire severity, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, fuels mapping, burn severity, RAWS - Remote Automated Weather Station, fuel moisture, NDVI - Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently finalized updates to the 2007 Exceptional Event Rule. This webinar will explore those updates, why changes were made and examine ways in which they may affect fire in the Great Plains, including prescribed fire in areas like the…
Person: Watson
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: exceptional event, air quality, EER - Exceptional Event Rule, Flint Hills, smoke management, BSMP - Basic Smoke Management Practices, Kansas, Oklahoma, tallgrass prairie, invasive species, eastern redcedar, cattle, smoke management plan, fire return interval, burn interval

Kris Ray from the Air Quality Program of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation presented his experience monitoring indoor air quality during the 2015 wildfire season, and Dr. Shelly Miller from the University of Colorado shared her findings on the effectiveness of…
Person: Ray, Miller
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: PM2.5 airborne concentrations, fine particulates, Colville Reservation, indoor air quality, air cleaner, Colorado, Washington

Rick Thoman, Rick Lader, and Nicole Molders presented at the IARC Research Salon Series, May 19, 2016. Rick Thoman, Climate Science and Services Manager, NWS Alaska Region: Seasonal scale forecasting of the atmospheric drivers important to wildfire (0-15:50); Rick Lader, PhD…
Person: Thoman, Lader, Mölders
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aviation, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: climate models, fire weather, fire weather forecast, dynamic modelling, extreme fire, area burned, lightning, CFFDRS - Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System, BUI - CFFDRS Buildup Index, WRF - Weather Research and Forecasting, UAV - unmanned aerial vehicles, smoke forecasting

2014 briefing presentation by Lindsay Wichers Stanek. Delivered to the National Wildland Fire Coordinating Group Smoke Committee. The presentation describes EPA's next generation air monitoring efforts.
Person: Stanek
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: EPA - Environmental Protection Agency, air quality, air pollution, technology systems

Narrated presentation describing the Wildland Fire Air Quality Response Program and its capabilities.
Person: Lahm
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, smoke impacts, public health, transportation safety, smoke exposure, public information

This webinar will review the objectives and progress of the multi-agency Fire and Smoke Modeling Experiment (FASMEE) project. The primary objective of FASMEE is to gather observational data needed to evaluate and advance fire and smoke modeling systems. The project has two…
Person: Ottmar, Larkin
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: FASMEE - Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, smoke models, RxCADRE, plumes, fuelbeds, fuel measurement, plume dynamics, smoke science research, smoke measurements

In this presentation Evan will provide a brief introduction to efforts at the University of Maryland and the Joint (NASA and NOAA) Polar Science System’s (JPSS) Proving Ground and Risk Reduction (PGRR) program.  The goal of the PGRR project is to leverage the VIIRS AF products…
Person: Ellicott
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: fire risk reduction, remote sensing, satellite imagery, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, geospatial data, Sentinel-3

This webinar will discuss various agricultural and forestry fires and their impacts on air quality, including smoke and other air emissions. Basic Smoke Management Practices (BSMPs) will be discussed as means to minimize air quality impacts from prescribed fires.
Person: Johnson
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: BSMP - Basic Smoke Management Practices, smoke management, particulate emissions, NO2 - nitrogen dioxide, PM - particulate matter, O3 - ozone, air quality, NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards, PM2.5, wildland fire, smoke dispersion, topography, mixing height, ventilation index

This is the second webinar offered in the Air Quality Planning for Wildland Smoke series.
Person: Baker, Kelly, Hagler
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Canada, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, BlueSky Modeling Framework, fire management

Smoke generated from low-intensity prescribed fires used for fuels management can have an adverse impact on local air quality, raising human health and safety concerns especially in wildland-urban-interface areas. Local smoke behavior is a complex process and is highly dependent…
Person: Heilman
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: low intensity burns, meteorology and smoke, smoke dispersion, New Jersey Pine Barrens, fire-induced atmospheric conditions

Prescribed fire is one tool used for treating fuels and achieving natural resources objectives in dry mixed conifer forests. However, the use of fire is never straightforward and always contains elements of uncertainty and complexity. The process is far more complex than using…
Person: Battaglia, Jain, Graham
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: fire damage, LANDFIRE, mastication, burn plans, dry mixed-conifer forest, forest change, near miss, fuel loads, fuels treatments, NRFSN - Northern Rockies Fire Science Network