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Land managers need a tool to accurately and efficiently estimate the biomass of hand- and machine-piled fuels as pile burning becomes a more widespread and common method for treating high fire hazard areas with heavy surface fuels. This proposal is to incorporate the calculation…
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Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: pile burning, hand-pile biomass, Hand-piled Fuels Biomass Calculator
Regional smoke and air quality models require plume rise information (the height of smoke plumes and vertical distribution of smoke particles) as initial and boundary conditions in modeling point-source emissions like wildland fires. A unrealistic specification of plume rise…
Person:
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, plume rise, smoke dispersion, DAYSMOKE