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FOFEM - A First Order Fire Effects Model - is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed fires that best…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, computer program, tree mortality, soil heating, fuel consumption, fuel load, duff, moisture regimes, fire intensity
Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, light wind, low rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, torching, low severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, high wind, high rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, active crown fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, torching, surface fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, torching, surface fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, torching, surface fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, head fire, active crown fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, head fire, active crown fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2016 Buffalo Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, low severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, 2016 Buffalo Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2016 Buffalo Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, low severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, 2016 Buffalo Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2016 Buffalo Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, low severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, 2016 Buffalo Fire
The Ecology of Smoke is something that has been considered by very few in the United States, despite extensive and intensive interest and research into frequent fire systems. This presentation will review some of the existing science; present some recent data on smoke and…
Person: Lata
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: air quality, smoke exposure, germination, plant growth, ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa, Linum lewisii, Penstemon barbatus
The dynamics and structure of the phytomass and production of an undisturbed mesotrophic dwarf shrub-sphagnum phytocenosis and one burned by fire have been compared. The net primary production (NPP) of both sites of phytocenoses in the postpyrogenic period is estimated by direct…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Asia, Russia, C - carbon, remote sensing, fire management, watershed management, peat bogs, Mesotrophic Mire, productivity, carbon emissions
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
In this study, WRF-Sfire is coupled with WRF-Chem to construct WRFSC, an integrated forecast system for wildfire behaviour and smoke prediction. WRF-Sfire directly predicts wildfire spread, plume and plume-top heights, providing comprehensive meteorology and fire emissions to…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire case histories, fire danger rating, fuel moisture, wildfires, air quality, particulates, fire management, smoke management
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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
In this study, volatile and semi-volatile organic compound (VOCs and SVOCs) mass emission factors were determined from laboratory peat fire experiments. The peat samples originated from two National Wildlife Refuges on the coastal plain of North Carolina, U.S.A. Gas- and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: biomass burning, laboratory fires, peat fires, North Carolina, air quality, C - carbon, organic soils, peat, fire management, smoke management, coastal plain, biomass burning, organic soil, VOC - volatile organic compounds, emission factors, Fine-Particle Emissions, wood combustion, source apportionment, particulate matter, gas phase, biomass, tracers
The 2015 fire season and related smoke pollution in Indonesia was more severe than the major 2006 episode, making it the most severe season observed by the NASA Earth Observing System satellites that go back to the early 2000s, namely active fire detections from the Terra and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire intensity, wildfires, Asia, Indonesia, air quality, droughts, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, pollution, precipitation, remote sensing, fire management, land use, smoke management, Indonesia, biomass burning, haze, pollution
See publishers web site for abstract. http://www.springeronline.com © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015.
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, wildfires, Sierra Nevada, fire management, forest management, fuel management, coniferous forests, treatment optimization, burn probability, fuel treatments, mixed conifer, mixed-conifer forest, reduction treatments, western United States, Treatment Impacts, wildland fires, ponderosa pine, carbon stocks, spotted owl
We present a study focusing on detection and initial quantitative estimates of ethylene (C2H4) in observations from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES), a Fourier transform spectrometer aboard the Aura satellite that measures thermal infrared radiances with high…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence
Region(s): California
Keywords: biomass burning, flame length, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, hydrocarbons, ozone, remote sensing, fire management, Ethylene, Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer, satellite remote sensing
Wildfires are important contributors to atmospheric aerosols and a large source of emissions that impact regional air quality and global climate. In this study, the regional and nearfield influences of wildfire emissions on ambient aerosol concentration and chemical properties…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: biomass burning, combustion, wildfires, Oregon, aerosols, air quality, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, biomass burning emissions, Organic Aerosol, Mass-Spectrometer, high resolution, trace gases, chemical composition, particulate matter, mixing ratios
Humans use combustion for heating and cooking, managing lands, and, more recently, for fuelling the industrial economy. As a shift to fossil-fuel-based energy occurs, we expect that anthropogenic biomass burning in open landscapes will decline as it becomes less fundamental to…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: biomass burning, human caused fires, carbon dioxide, climate change, fire management, fuel management, smoke management, anthropogenic burning, carbon dioxide emissions, climate change, Global Fire, pyrogeography, fire regimes, wildfire, Impact, Anthropocene, transition, landscape, patterns, drivers
Fire and herbivory are the two consumers of above-ground biomass globally. They have contrasting impacts as they differ in terms of selectivity and temporal occurrence. Here, we integrate continental-scale data on fire and herbivory in Africa to explore (i) how environmental…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire regimes, wildfires, Africa, grazing, greenhouse gases, herbivory, mammals, CH4 - methane, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, wildlife management, savannas, Fire - Grazer Interactions, Savannah Determinants, greenhouse gas emissions
A lack of independent, quality-assured data prevents scientists from effectively evaluating predictions and uncertainties in fire models used by land managers. This paper presents a summary of pre-fire and post-fire fuel, fuel moisture and surface cover fraction data that can be…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire size, fuel loading, fuel moisture, post fire recovery, surface fuels, Florida, Georgia, ash, char, cover, energy, herbaceous vegetation, litter, military lands, mineral soils, shrubs, fire management, forest management, land management, ash, fuel consumption, fuel loading, longleaf pine
The lack of independent, quality-assured field data prevents scientists from effectively evaluating and advancing wildland fire models. To rectify this, scientists and technicians convened in the southeastern United States in 2008, 2011 and 2012 to collect wildland fire data in…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire size, Florida, Georgia, energy, military lands, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, smoke management, fire model evaluation, remote-piloted aircraft system