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The impacts of air pollution on public health have become great concerns worldwide. Particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter small than 2.5μm (PM2.5), either from conventional sources such as traffic emissions or wildfire smoke, is among the most damaging air pollutants…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: health impacts, wildfire smoke exposure, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease
A Resource from the Western Regional Air Partnership's (WRAP) Fire Emissions Joint Forum (FEJF)In December 2002 the FEJF issued a request for proposal for a bibliography and summary table on Emission Reduction Techniques for agricultural burning and wildland fire in support of…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Fire Behavior
Region(s): National, Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: WRAP - Western Regional Air Partnership, emission factors, agricultural burning, emissions reduction, agricultural residues, burning index, wildland fire
Background: The record number of wildfires in the United States in recent years has led to an increased focus on developing tools to accurately forecast their impacts at high spatial and temporal resolutions.
Aims: The Warn-on-Forecast System for Smoke (WoFS-Smoke) was developed…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: data assimilation, ensemble, GOES-R, NWP - numerical weather prediction, probabilistic forecasting, smoke forecasting, weather radar, wildfires, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas
Global climate change and extreme weather has a profound impact on wildfire, and it is of great importance to explore wildfire patterns in the context of global climate change for wildfire prevention and management. In this paper, a wildfire spatial prediction model based on…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire management, GFED - Global Fire Emissions Database, convolutional neural network, area burned
Rationale: Wildfires are increasing in intensity, duration, and frequency with smoke plums affecting the lives of millions over large geographic areas. The immune modulatory effects of wildfire smoke are unclear. We previously showed that a major wildfire smoke component, ozone…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: COVID-19, public health, air quality
Starting from point sources, wildfire smoke is important in the global aerosol system. The ability to characterize smoke near-source is key to modeling smoke dispersion and predicting air quality. With hemispheric views and 10-min refresh, imagers in Geostationary (GEO) orbit…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: remote sensing, air quality, smoke dispersion, MAS (MODIS Airborne Simulator), FIREX‐AQ - Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality
The vertical distribution of biomass burning aerosol (BBA) is important in regulating their impacts on weather and climate. The plume-rise process affects the injection height of BBA and interacts with the air parcel lifting and cloud processes. However, these processes are not…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: E3SM - Energy Exascale Earth System Model, aerosol radiative effects, fire plumes, fire size
Sub-micron particles are ubiquitous in the indoor environment, especially during wildfire smoke episodes, and have a higher impact on human health than larger particles. Conventional fibrous air filters installed in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems play…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, HVAC, air pollution, indoor air quality, indoor air filtration, filters, health effects, Canada
Peatland fires are one of the major global sources of atmospheric particles. Emission factors for fine (PM1 and PM2.5) and ultrafine (PM0.1) particles and particle-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from plants in the peat swamp forest (PSF), including Melaleuca…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: peat swamp forest, forest burning source, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Melaleuca cajuputi, PM2.5, PM1, PM0.1, leaf litter, PAH diagnostic ratios, particle emission factors
These Smoke Management Best Management Practices (SMBMP) are a set of guidelines and procedures that are followed by signatory organizations to reduce the adverse effects of smoke from prescribed fires. The goal of the Wisconsin SMBMP is to prevent violations of the federal…
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Year:
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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Agricultural and forestry smoke management are addressed in Section 11.7.
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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Ohio Environmental Protection Agency's open burning resource and permitting information site.
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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A collection of New Jersey SIP documents with a searchable directory.
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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This document outlines New Jersey's long-term strategy (2018 to 2028) for dealing with visibility-impairing air pollution within its borders and from out-of-state sources that transportpollution to the Brigantine Wilderness Area.
Burning is addressed in section 4.6.7.4.
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Year: 2020
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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The SMP establishes a basic framework of procedures and requirements for managing smoke from fires managed for resource benefits and are typically developed by States/tribes with cooperation and participation by wildland owners/managers. The purpose of a SMP is to mitigate the…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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The planning process for the Minnesota Smoke Management Program document began early in 1999 with the formation of a subcommittee of the Minnesota Incident Command System (MNICS) Prescribed Fire and Fuels Working Team (PFFWT). Participants included representatives from the…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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The SMP has been developed based on the principles identified in The Exceptional Events Rule (EER) Parts 50 and 51 of March 22, 2007 and Section VI, “Smoke Management Programs” of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) April 23, 1998 “Interim Air Quality Policy on…
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Year:
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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The following smoke management guidelines are recommendations. The guidelines are not inclusive of all smoke management techniques and are not meant to limit prescribed burning activities. Rather, these guidelines are intended as interim recommendations until such time as the U.…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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Indiana Department of Natural Resources Information page on fire behavior, planning a prescribed burn, upcoming events, and FAQs.
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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This Smoke Management Plan (SMP) is based on Section VI “Smoke Management Programs” of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (U.S.EPA) “Interim Air Quality Policy on Wildland and Prescribed Fires” (April 23, 1998). According to this policy, the purpose of a SMP is to…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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Georgia Environmental Protection Divisions (EPD) information page describing open burning rules.
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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Prescribed Fire Smoke Management Plan information page from Georgia's Environmental Protection Division (EPD).
This includes links to:
Regional Haze State Implementation Plan
Georgia's Smoke Management Plan
Related links
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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Delaware informtion on burn application, permitting, restrictions, and other detail.
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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Delaware’s Visibility State Implementation Plan (SIP) Revision revised August 2022.
Agricultural and Forestry BSMPs and Smoke Management Programs are addressed in section 8.9.
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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General page on Air Quality Planning for the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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