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The National Weather Service Fire Weather Program provides weather forecasting and meteorological support services to state and federal wildland fire management agencies. An Intergovernmental Fire Weather User's Summit, sponsored by the National Weather Service (NWS) and the…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, biomass, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, land management, particulates, Pinus, smoke management, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, US Forest Service, wildfires
A major problem with weather data in complex terrain is temporal and spatial interpolation. The British Columbia Forest Service, through the services of Atmospheric Dynamics Corporation, has adapted a meso-scale weather model to provide hourly predictions out to 4.5 days for a…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: British Columbia, Canada, rate of spread, smoke management, temperature, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, air quality, Australia, biomass, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemistry, digital data collection, distribution, droughts, energy, eucalyptus, fire control, fire frequency, fire scar analysis, fuel types, Georgia, grasslands, greenhouse gases, land management, mosaic, Northern Territory of Australia, nutrients, particulates, plant growth, precipitation, radiation, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, statistical analysis, understory vegetation, biomass burning, NOAA-AVHRR (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer), fire mosaic, fire scar, Northern Territory of Australia, gaseous emissions, anthropogenic effects
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Social Science
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: bacteria, bark, carbon dioxide, chemistry, combustion, deciduous forests, fire growth, fire retardants, fire suppression, flammability, forest management, fuel arrangement, fuel inventory, fuel loading, fuel management, fungi, Georgia, heat, ignition, leaves, litter, logging, microorganisms, moisture, national forests, needles, Oregon, organic matter, private lands, public information, remote sensing, slash, soil moisture, soil organic matter, spontaneous combustion, temperature, wood, woody fuels, spontaneous ignition, forest residue, wood chips, slash, CHIP PILE, SAWDUST
In this air quality assessment, aerial photo attributes and an emissions inventory approach were used to estimate smoke production over time for the Deschutes, Grand Ronde, Methow, Pend Oreille, Wenatchee, and Yakima river basins in eastern Oregon and eastern Washington.…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, forest health, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, PM10 emissions, Deschutes River Basin, Grand Ronde River Basin, Methow River Basin, Pend Oreille River Basin, Wenatchee River Basin, Yakima River Basin, wildfires, smoke production, vegetation mapping, aerial photo interpretation, current fuel loading, CONSUME, photo series, emission factors, fuel moisture, fuel consumption, emission production, historical fuel loading
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: air quality, biomass, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, catastrophic fires, combustion, coniferous forests, crown fires, dead fuels, decomposition, duff, ecosystem dynamics, energy, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire intensity, fire protection, fire size, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel types, gases, Georgia, headfires, lightning caused fires, litter, live fuels, CH4 - methane, Montana, needles, organic matter, overstory, particulates, photography, scorch, smoke management, surface fires, surface fuels, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park, PM - particulate matter, greenhouse gases, biomass burning, ERC - Energy Release Component, aerial photography, fire dependent ecosystem, fire patterns, NFDRS - National Fire Danger Rating System, nonmethane hydrocarbons, Canyon Creek Fire, Sundance Fire, Tillamook Fire
Meteorological conditions, extremely conducive to fire development and spread in the spring of 1987, resulted in forest fires burning over extremely large areas in the boreal forest zone in northeastern China and the southeastern region of Siberia. The great China fire, one of…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forest, China, gas emissions, satellite imagery, Siberia