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These questions arise not as a local phenomenon but on a world scale which is seldom appreciated. Fire regimes prevail not only over huge areas in south-central Africa and Brazil, but also extend through North Africa--in the Sudan Zone especially--and no doubt also occur in the…
Person:
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Weather, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, air temperature, Australia, biomass, Brazil, Burma, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, distribution, fire dependent species, fire regimes, climate change, grasslands, hunting, India, pacific ocean, precipitation, savannas, season of fire, smoke effects, soil moisture, temperature, Thailand, Zambia

Biomass burning effects the African continent all year round. In the dry season there are widespread savannah fires, and there are always some domestic and agricultural fires. Here we present measurement of particulate black carbon, which is an unambiguous indicator of…
Person:
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Mapping, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, biomass, C - carbon, combustion, droughts, old growth forests, particulates, pH, precipitation, sampling, savannas, statistical analysis, tropical forests, water, weather observations

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, gases, human caused fires, ozone, rainforests, remote sensing, savannas, South America, tropical forests

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Arctic, Canada, C - carbon, chemistry, distribution, fuel types, gases, Greenland, Northwest Territories, organic matter, particulates, pollution, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, wildfires

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Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, biomass, burning intervals, burning permits, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, clearcutting, computer programs, conifers, decay, diameter classes, duff, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, firing techniques, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel inventory, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, hardwoods, herbicides, humus, ignition, logging, moisture, multiple resource management, national forests, Oregon, organic soils, particulates, pine, post fire recovery, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, season of fire, slash, slash and burn, smoke management, statistical analysis, Tsuga heterophylla, Washington, woody fuels

Wild and prescribed fires currently burn about 20,100 ha per year in Washington west of the Cascade Crest: prehistoric wildfires burned an estimated 19,200 ha per year. Modern burning consumes 38 g/m²/yr of fuel; the estimated prehistoric rate was 35 g/m²/yr over a 50-percent…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: prehistoric fires, smoke production, fuel consumption, western Washington, Abies amabilis, aerial ignition, air quality, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, elevation, evergreens, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire regimes, fire weather, foliage, forest types, heavy fuels, lightning caused fires, litter, logging, multiple resource management, national parks, natural resource management, Picea sitchensis, population density, prehistoric fires, season of fire, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, Thuja plicata, Tsuga heterophylla, Tsuga mertensiana, understory vegetation, wildfires

The classification of savanna fires into headfire and backfire types can in theory help in assessing pollutant emissions to the atmosphere via relative apportionment of the amounts of smouldering and flaming combustion occurring, and is also important when assessing a fire's…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: C - carbon, fire, intensity, radiative energy, global emission budgets

The production of residual white ash patches within wildfires represents near-complete combustion of the available fuel and releases a considerable quantity of gases to the atmosphere. These patches are generally produced from combustion of large downed woody debris (LDWD) such…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: C - carbon, remote sensing, burned area, savannas, Africa, DWD - downed woody debris, white ash, Fraxinus americana, Botswana, air quality, ash, biomass, combustion, experimental fire, fire management, fuel loading, gases, ignition, litter, national parks, particulates, range management, snags, South Africa, statistical analysis, surface fires, wildfires, woody fuels, Zambia

The NOAA 12 advanced very high resolution radiometer detected extensive forest fires in boreal Siberia and northern Mongolia during April through October 1998, a year of extremely dry weather, in particular, in the Russian Far East. Analysis of the satellite data has been…
Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, C - carbon, fire, biomass consumption, carbon release, radiometer, Siberia

We used NOAA-AVHRR satellite imagery, biomass density maps, fuel consumption estimates, and a carbon emission factor to estimate the total carbon (C) emissions from the spring 1998 fires in tropical Mexico. All eight states in southeast Mexico were affected by the wildfires,…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfire, biomass, carbon emissions, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, tropospheric ozone, Mexico, agriculture, air quality, charcoal, C - carbon, Chiapas, climatology, cover, deforestation, digital data collection, distribution, drought, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, evapotranspiration, evergreens, fire injury, fire management, fire management planning, fire size, fire suppression, fragmentation, grasslands, greenhouse gases, habitat conversion, human caused fires, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land use, mortality, photography, overstory, Pinus, plantations, population density, precipitation, Quercus, remote sensing, savannas, storms, tropical forest, understory vegetation, winds

In Florida, natural communities require periodic fires for maintenance of their ecological integrity. Because of public concerns, wildfires can no longer be allowed to perform this mandatory function so prescribed burning is essential to manage these plant and animal communities…
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Florida, aesthetics, allelopathy, biogeography, burning permits, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, climatology, community ecology, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental impact analysis, European settlement, fire control, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (humans), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire protection, fire suppression, firing techniques, flame length, flatwoods, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, fuel types, herbaceous vegetation, humidity, ignition, incendiary fires, insects, land management, landscape ecology, liability, Native Americans, natural areas management, natural resource legislation, nutrient cycling, pine forests, Pinus palustris, plant communities, plant diseases, population density, post-fire recovery, escaped prescribed fires, private lands, public information, rate of spread, reforestation, scrub, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, state forests, state parks, temperature, US Forest Service, vegetation surveys, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind