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On January 4, 2014, during the summer period in South America, an intense forest and dry pasture wildfire occurred nearby the city of Santiago de Chile. On that day the biomass-burning plume was transported by low-intensity winds towards the metropolitan area of Santiago and…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Chile, biomass burning, air quality, fire plumes, South America, WRF-Chem, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, plume rise, atmospheric modeling
Based on the data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI; Aura) satellite instrument, an analysis of changes in total formaldehyde (CH2O) column and tropospheric nitrogen dioxide (NO2) column, associated with the extreme summer weather regimes and wildfires in European Russia…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Siberia, Russia, formaldehyde, NO2 - nitrogen dioxide, extreme weather, wildfires
Fire as a management practice in South Africa’s grasslands inflamed heated debate throughout the twentieth century. Imported ecological ideas meshed with homegrown sectoral land management traditions to reinforce a powerful anti-burning narrative among experts. Farmers, however…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, South Africa, fire management, land management
The climate mitigation potential of tropical peatlands has gained increased attention as Southeast Asian peatlands are being deforested, drained and burned at very high rates, causing globally significant carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to the atmosphere. We used a process-based…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: climate change, peatlands, carbon dioxide, air quality, peatlands, peatland rewetting, carbon dynamics, oil palm, REDD - reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, swamp forests, Borneo, carbon accumulation, conservation, Indonesia, Sumatra
In recent years, fires regularly and extensively took place in Indonesian forest and peatland, inducing a wide range of environmental and economic impacts, particularly the very bad air quality due to smoke haze and the considerable increase of carbon emissions. The causal…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, land use, Indonesia, forest fire, peat fire, fire risk modeling, tropical peatland, Peat Conservation, tropical peatlands, air pollution, forest, degradation, Malaysia, Sumatra, impacts, policy
In this paper, we analyze the spatio-temporal distribution of vegetation fires in Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo in the severe El Niño year of 2015, concentrating on the distribution of fires between mineral soils and peatland areas, and between land cover types in…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, peatlands, peat fires, wildfires, air quality, Indonesia, plantations, peatland management, Hotspot, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, sensitivity, pollution, Singapore, drought, haze
Canada is expected to see an increase in fire risk under future climate projections. Large fires, such as that near Fort McMurray, Alberta in 2016, can be devastating to the communities affected. Understanding the role of human emissions in the occurrence of such extreme fire…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, climate change, Alberta, Canada, event attribution, extremes, boreal forest, fire spread, CFFDRS - Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System
The Southern Annular Mode (SAM) is the main driver of climate variability at mid to high latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere, affecting wildfire activity, which in turn pollutes the air and contributes to human health problems and mortality, and potentially provides strong…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, climate change, South America, fire scars, climate modes, AAO - Antarctic Oscillation, synchrony, warming, Atlantic Ocean influence, fire regimes, northern Patagonia, western Patagonia, past millennium, time series
Over the past decades, fires have burned annually in Indonesia, yet the strength of the fire season is for a large part modulated by the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The two most recent very strong El Niño years were 2015 and 1997. Both years involved high incidences of…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: precipitation, fire regimes, fire frequency, Indonesia, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, TRMM - Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, regional air quality, Southeast Asia, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, rainfall, peatlands, drought, Borneo
Wildland and cropland fires, which differ considerably in fire regime characteristics, have often been evaluated jointly to estimate regional or global fire regimes using satellite-based fire activity data. We hypothesised that excluding cropland fires will change the output of…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, cropland fires, fire regimes, Turkey, agricultural fire, land cover, Mediterranean basin, Taurus Mountains, global scale, Count Data, MODIS
Key message: Acacia melanoxylon produces abundant seeds leading to large seed banks in the soil. These seeds display a large viability and their germination is stimulated by heat. To control the populations, it is necessary to remove adults and young individuals, and to prevent…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: germination, seed dispersal, seed germination, seed production, Europe, black wattle, seed dissemination, seed banks, tree population structure, Australian acacias, reproductive biology, high temperatures, regeneration, management, heat
This study presents the spatial and temporal patterns of vegetation fires in China based on a combination of national fire records (1950-2010) and satellite fire data (2001-12). This analysis presents the first attempt to understand existing patterns of open fires and their…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, fire regimes, China, air quality, boreal forest, burnt area, crop residue burning, Great Xing’an Mountains, fuel moisture content, forest fire, ecosystems, Algorithm
A wildfire with many ignition points took place in the Daxing'an Mountains of north-east China in June 2010. After the fire, moss polsters and particle traps were collected from burnt and unburnt areas a few kilometres away from four ignition points. Charcoal extracted from the…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, ignition, air quality, China, biomass burning, Larch Forest, wildfire, forest fire, macroscopic charcoal, microscopic charcoal, Holocene fire, source area, records, deposition, regimes, boreal, history
Well-drained, aerated soils are important sinks for atmospheric methane (CH4) via the process of CH4 oxidation by methane-oxidising bacteria (MOB). This terrestrial CH4 sink may contribute towards climate change mitigation, but the impact of changing soil moisture and…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: soils, Australia, Tasmania, soil temperature, soil moisture, CH4 - methane, N-Saturated Spruce, Trace Gas Fluxes, N2O emissions, land use, Atmospheric Methane, Continuous Record, Limed Soil, Ch4 Uptake, ecosystems, consumption
The emission factors (EFs) for a broad range of semivolatile organic chemicals (SVOCs) from subtropical eucalypt forest and tropical savannah fires were determined for the first time from in situ investigations. Significantly higher (t test, P < 0.01) EFs (mg kg-1 dry fuel,…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, savannas, wildfires, Australia, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, biomass burning emissions, Transform Infrared-Spectroscopy, Dibenzo-P-Dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls, global distribution, Molecular Tracers, Field-Measurements, Pah Source, Part 1
Seed germination and early seedling establishment are critical stages during a plants life cycle. These stages are precisely regulated by multiple internal factors, including phytohormones and environmental cues such as light. As a family of small molecules discovered in…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: germination, smoke effects, seedling, karrikins, Aba, Ga, Iaa, germination, photomorphogenesis, Box Protein Max2, Shade Avoidance, Arabidopsis thaliana, abscisic acid, Dormancy Alleviation, Hypocotyl Elongation, Auxin Transport, Light Responses, Strigolactone
BACKGROUND: Vegetation fires can release substantial quantities of fine particles (PM2.5), which are harmful to health. The fire smoke may be transported over long distances and can cause adverse health effects over wide areas. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to assess annual mortality…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, pollution, Europe, wildland fires, air pollution, forest fires, particulate matter, health impacts, Southeast Asia, fine particles, quality
...An estimate of premature deaths attributable to vegetation smoke.
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality
The mechanism of smoke haze formation over the European part of Russia (EPR) in the summer of 2016 is analyzed using satellite measurements, ground-based observations, reanalysis data, and trajectory modeling. The analysis reveals that smoke in the atmosphere over EPR with the…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke aerosols, wildfires, aerosol optical depth, CO - carbon monoxide, long-range transport, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, AIRS - atmospheric infrared sounder, trajectory analysis, Russia, Siberia
Forest fire is an serious hazard in many places around the world. For such threats, video-based smoke detection would be particularly important for early warning because smoke arises in any forest fire and can be seen from a long distance. This paper presents a novel and robust…
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Year: 2017
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, deep belief networks, color spaces, motion detection, fire occurrence patterns, video monitoring
We have investigated the variability of smoke aerosol absorbing ability with variations in the content of brown carbon (BrC) and black carbon (BC). Using monitoring data on radiative characteristics of smoke aerosol at AERONET stations and the spatial distribution of aerosol…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke aerosols, brown carbon, black carbon, absorption spectra, aerospace monitoring, aerosol radiative forcing, boreal forest, Russia, Canada
Based on online wildfire satellite-monitoring data, distributions of burned-out areas, as well as emission volumes of carbon-containing gases (СО and СО2) and fine aerosols (РМ2.5), for different regions and months in 2005-2016 (across the territory of Russia) and in 2010-2016 (…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): International
Keywords: satellite monitoring, remote sensing, satellite imagery, wildfires, pollutant emissions, atmosphere, Russia, Eurasia, area burned, PM2.5, CO - carbon monoxide, CO2 - carbon dioxide
Mountains are crucial places in which to observe, experience, and learn about rapid weather and climate shifts, felt to varying degrees in different contexts. Fire lookout observers, immersed in the mountain environments of Alberta, Canada, for 5 to 6 months of the year, many of…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Alberta, Canada, Rocky Mountains, wildfires, fire lookouts, lookout firefighter, visibility, extreme weather
Pyroendemics are plants in which seedling germination and successful seedling recruitment are restricted to immediate postfire environments. In many fire-prone ecosystems species cue their germination to immediate postfire conditions. Here we address how species have evolved one…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): California, International
Keywords: fire-prone, fire-prone ecosystem, germination, pyroendemic plants, Mediterranean climate, South Africa, combustion products
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