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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
During the dry season, from November to April, agricultural biomass burning and forest fires especially from March to late April in mainland Southeast Asian countries of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam frequently cause severe particulate pollution not only in the local areas…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, Asia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, aerosols, air quality, pollution, fire management, smoke management, biomass burning, Southeast Asia, MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth, CALIPSO Aerosol Types, WRF - Weather Research Forecast, Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT)
Large-scale sea surface temperature (SST) patterns influence the interannual variability of burned area in many regions by means of climate controls on fuel continuity, amount, and moisture content. Some of the variability in burned area is predictable on seasonal timescales…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire size, wildfires, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, temperature, fire management, biomass burning, teleconnection, Seasonal Outlook, mitigation, biomass burning emissions, fire danger forecasts, interannual variability, Southeast Asia, El-Nino, Statistical-Model, wildfire activity, drought, severity
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
Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, 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: wildland fires, adaptation, mitigation, resilience, information sharing
The goal of this paper is to describe the overall meteorological measurement campaign design and methods and present some initial results from analyses of two burn experiments.
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Doppler lidar, micrometeorology, RxCADRE, low intensity burns, military lands, wind, fire management, smoke management
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 south-eastern United States in 2008, 2011 and 2012 to collect wildland fire data in…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: model evaluation, RxCADRE, aircraft
Relationships between boreal wildfire emissions and day-to-day variations in meteorological variables are complex and have important implications for the sensitivity of high-latitude ecosystems to climate change. We examined the influence of environmental conditions on boreal…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, weather observations, fire models, fuel consumption, biomass burning, boreal forest
Forest fire emissions have a strong impact on the concentrations of trace gases and aerosols in the atmosphere. In order to quantify the influence of boreal forest fire emissions on the atmospheric composition, the fire seasons of 1997 and 1998 are compared in this paper. Fire…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, precipitation, N - nitrogen, nitrogen deposition, climate variability, wavelet analysis
Presentation to the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee Arctic Data Collaboration Team Meeting September 2016 by Eric Miller on behalf of the Wildfires Collaboration Team.
Person: Miller
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: data, data management, remote sensing, fire management, data gaps, wildfire, Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group, soil moisture, fire severity, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, fuels mapping, burn severity, RAWS - Remote Automated Weather Station, fuel moisture, NDVI - Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
Rick Thoman, Rick Lader, and Nicole Molders presented at the IARC Research Salon Series, May 19, 2016. Rick Thoman, Climate Science and Services Manager, NWS Alaska Region: Seasonal scale forecasting of the atmospheric drivers important to wildfire (0-15:50); Rick Lader, PhD…
Person: Thoman, Lader, Mölders
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aviation, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: climate models, fire weather, fire weather forecast, dynamic modelling, extreme fire, area burned, lightning, CFFDRS - Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System, BUI - CFFDRS Buildup Index, WRF - Weather Research and Forecasting, UAV - unmanned aerial vehicles, smoke forecasting
[Executive Summary] The Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Act of 2009 (FLAME Act) called for the development of a National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy). The Cohesive Strategy was created to serve as guidance to assist…
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Year: 2016
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: wildland fire, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), WFLC - Wildland Fire Leadership Council, fuels management, CPAW - Community Planning Assistance for Wildfire, community planning, wildfire
This webinar will review the objectives and progress of the multi-agency Fire and Smoke Modeling Experiment (FASMEE) project. The primary objective of FASMEE is to gather observational data needed to evaluate and advance fire and smoke modeling systems. The project has two…
Person: Ottmar, Larkin
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: FASMEE - Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, smoke models, RxCADRE, plumes, fuelbeds, fuel measurement, plume dynamics, smoke science research, smoke measurements
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: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Indonesia, drought, biomass burning, haze, pollution, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, MOPITT - Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere instrument, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, OMI - Ozone Monitoring Instrument, MLS - Microwave Limb Sounder
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: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Weather
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, fire spread, fire plumes, PM2.5
An assessment of outcomes from research projects funded by the Joint Fire Science Program was conducted to determine whether or not science has been used to inform management and policy decisions and to explore factors that facilitate use of fire science. In a web survey and…
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Year: 2016
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: fire research, science delivery, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program
Boreal fires have immediate effects on regional carbon budgets by emitting CO2 into the atmosphere at the time of burning, but they also have legacy effects by initiating a long-term carbon sink during post-fire vegetation recovery. Quantifying these different effects on the…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: wildfires, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, boreal forests, Global Vegetation Model, climate change, Interior Alaska, burned area, forest, dynamics, regime, 20th Century, temperature