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Smoke management program manual that provides an overview for fire management officers, including site inspection expectations and "big league" burn programs.
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
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Radar observations of wild fire plumes in Oklahoma carried out with the prototype of dual polarization S-band WSR-88D weather radar are presented. The observations show that the copolar correlation coefficients between horizontally and vertically polarized returns in the plumes…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire detection, fire plumes, remote sensing
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer programs, smoke management, weather observations
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Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, coastal vegetation, fire management, grasslands, natural areas management, pollution, post fire recovery, prairies, rangeland fires, rangelands, shrubs, Texas, threatened and endangered species (animals), Tympanuchus, weed control, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
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Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, energy, gases, hydrocarbons, organic matter, particulates, S - sulfur, volatilization, wood
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Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies spp., agriculture, air quality, annual plants, Artemisia, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, boreal forests, burning intervals, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, Colorado, coniferous forests, crown fires, dead fuels, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fuel types, gases, grasses, heat effects, human caused fires, Juniperus, litter, national forests, nutrient cycling, organic matter, ozone, perennial plants, Picea spp., Pinus edulis, post fire recovery, precipitation, sampling, savannas, season of fire, shrubs, site treatments, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, tropical forests, understory vegetation, wildfires, woody plants
Three questions regarding fire research needs were asked of 355 respondents at 68 western USDA Forest Service locations. Responses have been analyzed, summarized, and categorized. Results provide guidance for defining and setting priorities in wildfire research in the western…
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: fire danger rating, forest management, fuel management, land management, land use, multiple resource management, nutrient cycling, smoke effects, smoke management, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Andropogon cabanisii, Aristida stricta, Avicennia germinans, Big Cypress National Preserve, birds, Cladium jamaicense, coastal forests, competition, fire danger rating, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firing techniques, Florida, fuel types, game birds, grasses, hardwood hammocks, hardwoods, human caused fires, incendiary fires, lightning caused fires, mammals, marshes, particulates, peat fires, pine forests, Pinus elliottii densa, post fire recovery, Sabal palmetto, salt marshes, Serenoa repens, small mammals, south Florida, succession, swamps, Taxodium distichum, wetlands, wildlife habitat management
Multiple trace-gas instruments were deployed during the fourth Fire Lab at Missoula Experiment (FLAME-4), including the first application of proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry (PTR-TOFMS) and comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-time-of-flight…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: biomass burning, FTIR - Fourier transform infrared absorption spectroscopy , laboratory experiments
In China, many pollutants are released because of crop residue burning in the field, resulting in serious pollution of ambient air. Suqian with 4523 km2 of total area under cultivation was selected as a case to be studied, where wheat-rice double cropping system is widely…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Asia, China, cropland fires, croplands, fire management, pollution, range management, statistical analysis, crop residue, field burning, pollutant emissions
The levels of benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) were determined in downtown Caracas in order to have a first approach to the problem related to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in this city. Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela is located 10.30°N and 66.7°E in a valley at an altitude of…
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, fire management, hydrocarbons, mountains, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, South America, temperature, tropical regions, Venezuela, wildfires
A presentation recorded at the 7th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress.
Person: Gamble
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Outreach
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Florida, 1998 fire season
Reliable estimates of pre-burn biomass and fuel consumption are important to estimate wildland fire emissions and assist in prescribed burn planning. We present empirical models for predicting fuel consumption in natural fuels from 60 prescribed fires in ponderosa pine-dominated…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest, Southern
Keywords: biomass, fuel consumption, Douglas-fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii, loblolly pine, Pinus taeda, longleaf pine, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, southern pine forests, smoke management, wildland fire
Polarization lidar observations from the interior of Alaska have revealed unusual supercooled altocumulus cloud conditions in the presence of boreal forest fire smoke from local and regional fires. At temperatures of about -15ºC, the lidar data show ice nucleation prior to…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aerosols, boreal forests, fire management, grasslands, smoke effects, smoke management, soot, statistical analysis, temperature, tundra, water, wildfires, indirect aerosol, cloud effects, boreal smoke, polarization lidar
Several boreal insect species respond to smoke and heat generated by forest fires and use recent burns to reproduce in high numbers. Some of these species are rare or uncommon in undisturbed forests, and the contribution of recently burned habitats to their population dynamics…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Models, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: age classes, boreal forests, Canada, conservation, distribution, fire adaptations (animals), fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, habitat suitability, heat, insects, logging, population density, Quebec, reproduction, salvage, snags, statistical analysis, suppression, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, wood, boreal forest, forest fire, habitat connectivity, population dynamics, pyrophilous insects
The combine harvesting technology which has become common in the rice-wheat system in India leaves behind large quantities of straw in the field for open residue burning, and Punjab is one such region where this is regularly happening. This becomes a source for the emission of…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Asia, biomass, biomass burning, chemistry, disturbance, fire management, fire size, gases, India, leaves, mosaic, remote sensing, statistical analysis, suppression, taxonomy, burned patches, decision-tree classifier, knowledge-based classification, thermal band
With evidence of increasing wildfire risks in wildland-urban interface zones in the U.S. West and elsewhere, understanding intended evacuation behavior is a growing issue for community planners. This research investigates intended evacuation behavior due to wildfire risks, using…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: distribution, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (humans), fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, Mexico, national forests, New Mexico, population density, public information, statistical analysis, wildfires, evacuation, wildfire
Inventories of methyl halide emissions from domestic burning of biomass in Africa, from 1950 to the present day and projected to 2030, have been constructed. By combining emission factors from Andreae and Merlet [2001. Emission of trace gases and aerosols from biomass burning.…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, biomass burning, charcoal, chemical compounds, fire management, fuel management, gases, Africa, biofuel, domestic biomass burning, emission factor, methyl halide
In some areas of the world where agricultural burning is practised, the airborne particles produced have been linked to respiratory disease in humans. Here, we investigate the abundance and form of silica (SiO2) minerals found within ash and aerosol produced by the experimental…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, ash, biomass, biomass burning, combustion, Cyperaceae, Europe, experimental fires, fire management, leaves, minerals, particulates, Poaceae, Saccharum officinarum, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, United Kingdom, wildfires, wind, biomass burning, cristobalite, respirable particles, silica, sugarcane
A newly developed method, which involves the use of satellite measurements of energy released by fires, was used to estimate smoke emissions in the United States (US) Southern Great Plains (SGP). This SGP region was chosen because extensive agricultural and planned burning…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, biomass burning, croplands, energy, fire frequency, fire management, grasslands, Great Plains, particulates, radiation, range management, remote sensing, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, FRE - Fire Radiative Energy, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
Smoke and aqueous smoke extracts enhance both seed germination and seedling vigour in a wide variety of plants. The butenolide, 3-methyl-2H-furo[2,3-c]pyran-2-one, has been identified as a highly active germination promoter from plant-derived smoke. The present study was…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, Callus, chemical compounds, germination, seed germination, smoke effects, smoke management, South Africa, auxin-like activity, cytokinin-like activity, smoke-derived butenolide
On February 28, 2007, a severe smoke event caused by prescribed forest fires occurred in Atlanta, GA. Later smoke events in the southeastern metropolitan areas of the United States caused by the Georgia-Florida wild forest fires further magnified the significance of forest fire…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fuel loading, Georgia, ozone, particulates, Picoides borealis, pollution, smoke management, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), wildfires, wildlife habitat management
Throughout 2004,
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, England, Europe, fire management, human caused fires, smoke behavior, United Kingdom, wildfires
Fire-related cues (smoke and heat) contribute largely to changes in vegetation communities in fire prone habitats. The germination responses of seeds of species from Combretaceae, Leguminosae and Poaceae to smoke, heat or their interaction were examined. Half of the seed batch…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, Andropogon, Andropogon gayanus, Anogeissus, Burkina Faso, Combretaceae, Combretum, fire management, forest management, germination, heat, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, Leguminosae, plant communities, Poaceae, savannas, seed germination, seeds, smoke effects, smoke management, Sudan, temperature, Terminalia, wildfires, woody plants, Burkina Faso, Combretaceae, Leguminosae, Poaceae, germination
Measurements of total ozone column and solar UV radiation under different atmospheric conditions are needed to define variations of both UV and ozone and to study the impact of ozone depletion at the Earth's surface. In this study, spectral and broadband measurements of UV-B…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Asia, biomass, biomass burning, dust, fire frequency, gases, India, natural areas management, ozone, radiation, remote sensing, tropical regions, UV index, aerosols, ozone, biomass burning, TUV model