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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, agriculture, air quality, arid regions, biomass, deforestation, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, humidity, population density, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, statistical analysis, vegetation surveys, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, cover type conversion, deforestation, deserts, distribution, Europe, forest types, habitat conversion, habitat types, land use, landscape ecology, Mediterranean habitats, Portugal, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, Spain, statistical analysis, tropical forests
From the text ...'This paper summarizes results of a study conducted under the aegis of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. We report on a midscale scientific assessment of vegetation change in terrestrial landscapes of the interior West, associated change…
Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies amabilis, Abies concolor, Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa, Abies magnifica, air quality, arthropods, Cascades Range, coniferous forests, conifers, cover type, crown fires, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire regimes, fire suppression, fishes, forbs, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, grasses, grasslands, health factors, herbaceous vegetation, histories, hydrology, Idaho, insects, Juniperus, landscape ecology, Larix occidentalis, Montana, montane forests, mountains, national forests, Nevada, northern California, Oregon, overstory, Picea engelmannii, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, Pinus edulis, Pinus flexilis, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus monticola, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, Populus, prairies, Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, Quercus garryana, range management, relict vegetation, remote sensing, rivers, Salix, shrublands, sloping terrain, smoke management, succession, Thuja plicata, Tsuga heterophylla, Tsuga mertensiana, Utah, Washington, watershed management, watersheds, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, Wyoming
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will implement new regulations for the management of atmospheric particulate matter 2.5 Fm and less in diameter (PM2.5), tropospheric ozone, and regional haze in the next few years. These three air quality issues relate…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, combustion, education, fire management, gases, health factors, human caused fires, ozone, particulates, pollution, public information, remote sensing, site treatments, smoke management, thinning, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind
Fire modeling and information system technology play an important supporting role in fuel and fire management. Modeling is used to examine alternative fuel treatment options, project potential ecosystem changes, and assess risk to life and property. Models are also used to…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, 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: fuel models, wildland fire, fire spread, fuel management, air quality, biomass, catastrophic fires, computer program, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire injuries (plants), evolution, fire management, flame length, fuel loading, fuel types, GIS - geographic information system, mineral soil, ignition, rate of spread, remote sensing, mortality, surface fires, season of fire, thinning, water quality, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
Attitudes and policies concerning wildland fire, fire use, and fire management have changed greatly since early European settlers arrived in North America. Active suppression of wildfires accelerated early in the 20th Century, and areas burned dropped dramatically. In recent…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, 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, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, fire policy, research needs, fuel management, air quality, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire models, fire regimes, fire suppression, fire weather, fuel loading, GIS - geographic information system, fuel moisture, remote sensing, season of fire, site treatments, smoke management, vegetation surveys, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, chemistry, distribution, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, human caused fires, hydrocarbons, ozone, remote sensing, South America, statistical analysis, numerical simulation, atmospheric chemistry modeling, biomass burning, satellite measurements
The impact of the Central American fires on PM2.5 mass concentration and composition in the Tennessee Valley region during portions of May, 1998, has been quantified. Elevated concentrations of smoke aerosol tracers -- fine potassium, (and to a lesser extent, calcium and silicon…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Alabama, biomass, calcium, C - carbon, Central America, dust, Kentucky, Mexico, particulates, photography, K - potassium, remote sensing, smoke effects, smoke management, Tennessee, wildfires, wind, PM2.5 mass, long distance transport, Central American fires, fine particle standards, potassium tracer of biomass combustion