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Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish fire, when needed; use fire where…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildfire, wildland fire, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy)
Wildfires affect Rocky Mountain ecosystems across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Many of the resulting changes are greatest for environmental factors, such as substrate and microclimate that control exchanges of greenhouse gases. We investigated this link to…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fuel moisture, post-fire recovery, wildfires, carbon dioxide, gases, global warming, CH4 - methane, N - nitrogen, pH, soil moisture, soil nutrients, soil temperature, statistical analysis, Douglas-fir, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Colorado Front Range, Colorado, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, soil management, coniferous forests, trace gases, soils
In the present work, post-burning soil N2O fluxes and related microbial processes were investigated in a Mediterranean shrubland subjected to experimental fires. Nine plots were selected, of which three were used as controls, three were burned with low-intensity fire and three…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: experimental fire, fire frequency, fire intensity, low intensity burns, surface fires, air quality, C - carbon, enzymes, N - nitrogen, sampling, soil moisture, soil nutrients, soil organic matter, soil temperature, statistical analysis, Italy, Mediterranean, fire management, soil management, Mediterranean habitats, shrublands, denitrification, fire intensity, nitrification, soil nitrogen
Agricultural residue burning is one of the major causes of greenhouse gas emissions and aerosols in the lndo-Ganges region. In this study, we characterize the fire intensity, seasonality, variability, fire radiative energy (FRE) and aerosol optical depth (AOD) variations during…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, cropland fires, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire size, season of fire, aerosols, agriculture, air quality, greenhouse gases, pollution, radiation, remote sensing, India, Asia, fire management, forest management, croplands, FRE - Fire Radiative Energy, agricultural residues, biomass burning, aerosol optical depth variations
Wildland fire is a natural force that has shaped most vegetation types of the world. However, its inappropriate management during the last century has led to more frequent and catastrophic fires. Wildland fires are also recognized as one of the sources of CO2 and other…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, wildfires, air quality, carbon dioxide, deforestation, gases, plant growth, Patagonia, Argentina, South America, fire management, forest management, CO2 emissions, Kyoto Protocol, emissions mitigation, biomass growth
Background: During the summer of 2006, a wave of wildfires struck Galicia (north-west Spain), giving rise to a disaster situation in which a great deal of the territory was destroyed. Unlike other occasions, the wildfires in this case also threatened farms, houses and even human…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Safety, Fire Effects, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire injuries (humans), smoke effects, wildfires, health factors, Spain, Europe, fire management
As climate change increases vegetation combustibility, humans are impacted by wildfires through loss of lives and property, leading to an increased emphasis on prescribed burning practices to reduce hazards. A key and pervading concept accepted by most environmental managers is…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire adaptations (plants), fire damage (property), fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (humans), fire resistant plants, smoke effects, wildfires, conservation, flowering, resprouting, seed germination, serotiny, Australia, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, Mediterranean habitats
Epidemiological studies of exposure to vegetation fire smoke are often limited by the availability of accurate exposure data. This paper describes a systematic framework for retrospectively identifying the cause of air pollution events to facilitate a long, multicenter analysis…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, particulates, pollution, remote sensing, eucalyptus, New South Wales, Tasmania, western Australia, Australia, fire management, smoke management, sclerophyll forests
Biomass burning covers open fires (forest and grassland fires, crop residue burning in fields, etc.) and biofuel combustion (crop residues and wood, etc., used as fuel). As a large agricultural country, China may produce large quantities of mercury emissions from biomass burning…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, cropland fires, fuel moisture, wildfires, air quality, herbaceous vegetation, leaves, Hg - mercury, pollution, woody plants, China, Asia, fire management, forest management, fuel management, range management, grasslands
Fires in tropical forests release globally significant amounts of carbon to the atmosphere and may increase in importance as a result of climate change. Despite the striking impacts of fire on tropical ecosystems, the paucity of robust spatial models of forest fire still hampers…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire regimes, carbon emissions, Amazon, hot pixels, IPCC A2 scenario, REDD - Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries
Alaskan forests used to be important players in Mother Nature's game plan for regulating carbon dioxide levels in the air. It's elementary earth science: Trees take up carbon dioxide and give off oxygen. But now, American and Canadian researchers report that climate change is…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: fire frequency, fire severity, carbon emissions, climate change, boreal forests, carbon sources
This document provides a list of publications produced by the Rocky Mountain Research Station from January-March, 2011. It includes series publications, science perspectives, journal articles, and other publications. The topics covered include all aspects of forest management.
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: US Forest Service, publications, research publications
Large wildfire occurrence and burned area are modeled using hydroclimate and landsurface characteristics under a range of future climate and development scenarios. The range of uncertainty for future wildfire regimes is analyzed over two emissions pathways (the Special Report on…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire modeling, burned area, moisture deficit, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire size, flammability, fuel moisture, wildfires, air temperature, climate change, precipitation, fire management, forest management
Boreal forests and peatlands in northern circumpolar areas, including Ontario, store globally significant amounts of carbon but are subject to forest fires and other natural disturbances that cycle carbon between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. Climate change…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, fire management, carbon sequestration, carbon storage, climate change, peatlands, boreal forests
Wildfires are a common experience in Alaska where, on average, 3,775 km2 burn annually. More than 90% of the area consumed occurs in Interior Alaska, where the summers are relatively warm and dry, and the vegetation consists predominantly of spruce, birch, and cottonwood.…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: wildfires, lightning-caused fires, PM - particulate matter, visibility, CO emissions, PDSI - Palmer Drought Severity Index, CDC - Canadian Drought Code
Vegetation fires are the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. The reduction of the climatic impact of these emissions is related to the vegetation susceptibility to fire (fire risk), as well as to the understanding of possible implications of…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Brazil, greenhouse gases, PFI - Potential Fire Index, fire danger rating, season of fire, smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, CO2 - carbon dioxide, deforestation, drought, evapotranspiration, climate change, precipitation, fire management, forest management, tropical forest
Agricultural burning is an important land use practice in the central U.S. but has received little attention in the literature, whereas most of the focus has been on wildfires in forested areas. Given the effects that agricultural burning can have on biodiversity and emissions…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Eastern, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: biodiversity, land use, spatial analysis, agricultural burning, fire detection, active fires, cloud cover
This assessment was conducted to fulfill the requirements of section 712 of the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 and to improve understanding of carbon (C) and greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes in the Great Plains region in the central part of the United States. The…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: C - carbon, carbon storage, greenhouse gas, flux, climate change, wildfires, wildland fire, area burned, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, carbon dioxide
Gas and particulate fractions were measured simultaneously from a wildfire in Penedono, central Portugal, which occurred in summer 2009. The total volatile hydrocarbons (THC) and carbon oxides (CO2 and CO) collected in Tedlar bags were measured using automatic analysers with…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire frequency, incendiary fires, smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, climate change, gases, hydrocarbons, particulates, Portugal, Europe, fire management, smoke management, wildfire, organic compounds, PM2.5, PM2.5-10, emission factors
Fires in tropical forests release globally significant amounts of carbon to the atmosphere and may increase in importance as a result of climate change. Despite the striking impacts of fire on tropical ecosystems, the paucity of robust spatial models of forest fire still hampers…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, fire regimes, fire size, human caused fires, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, climate change, deforestation, droughts, roads, statistical analysis, Amazon, Brazil, South America, fire management, forest management, cerrado, tropical forests, carbon emissions, hot pixels, IPCC A2 scenario, Redd, SimAmazonia
This study focused on structural analysis of ground carbon storage following fires in light conifer stands of the Lower Angara region (Siberia, Russia). Experimental fires of varying frontal intensity were conducted at Scots pine and mixed larch forests of southern taiga.…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, fire size, wildfires, biomass, C - carbon, Larix sibirica , larch, Pinus sylvestris, Scots pine, Russia, Asia, fire management, forest management, coniferous forests, light conifer stands, carbon storage, biomass consumption, carbon emissions, forest type, depth of burn
A series of wildfires broke out in Western Russia starting in late July of 2010. Harmful particulates and gases released into the local Russian atmosphere have been reported, as have possible negative consequences for the global atmosphere. In this study, an extremely hazy area…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire damage (property), wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, gases, ozone, particulates, remote sensing, Russia, Asia, Europe, fire management
Fire in tropical montane cloud forests (TMCFs) is not as rare as once believed. Andean TMCFs sit immediately below highly flammable, high-altitude grasslands (Puna/Paramo) that suffer from recurrent anthropogenic fire. This treeline is a zone of climatic tension where…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire frequency, firebreaks, flammability, ground fires, human caused fires, rate of spread, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, deforestation, national parks, peat, resprouting, roots, snags, soil organic matter, soils, Peru, South America, fire management, forest management, soil management, grasslands, montane forests, peatlands, tropical forests, biomass burning emissions, resprouting, montane cloud forests, Andes, peat soil, REDD+
Prescribed burning, in combination with mechanical thinning, is a successful method for reducing heavy fuel loads from forest floors and thereby lowering the risk of catastrophic wildfire. However, an undesirable consequence of managed fire is the production of fine particulate…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: biomass burning, broadcast burning, crown fires, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire suppression, fuel loading, heavy fuels, low intensity burns, recreation related fires, surface fuels, air quality, C - carbon, hydrocarbons, particulates, slash, thinning, understory vegetation, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, Arizona, fire management, forest management, coniferous forests, elemental carbon, fine particulate matter, organic carbon, PM2.5, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, wood-smoke particulate
In summer 2009, emissions of trace gases and aerosols from several wildfires occurring in Portugal were sampled. A portable high-volume sampler was used to collect sequentially, on quartz fibre filters, coarse (PM2.5-10) and fine (PM2.5) smoke particles. Tedlar air sampling bags…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, aerosols, air quality, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, gases, hydrocarbons, organic matter, particulates, Portugal, Europe, fire management, wildfires, trace gases, carbonaceous particles, emission factors, water-soluble ions, metals