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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: adaptation, Agrostis hyemalis, air temperature, Betula nana, biogeography, boreal forests, Brasenia, carbon dioxide, Chamaecyparis, coastal plain, community ecology, conservation, distribution, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, forest fragmentation, climate change, habits and behavior, histories, Liquidambar, Liriodendron, Magnolia, marshlands, Menispermum, moisture, mortality, mountains, natural areas management, Ovibos moschatus, Picea engelmannii, Pinus strobus, Pinus taeda, plant growth, population density, population ecology, precipitation, Rangifer tarandus, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), temperate forests, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), Thuja, Tsuga, Tsuga canadensis, vulnerable species or communities, wildlife refuges
Wetlands dominated by flora of the Gramineae and Cyperaceae, such as fens and sedge meadows, have been shown to be fire dependent or fire related in their natural history as well as their community composition and structure. Prescribed burning is therefore a useful and often…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: Alnus rugosa, Betula sandbergii, bogs, burning intervals, Calamagrostis canadensis, Carex stricta, community ecology, conservation, Cornus stolonifera, Cyperaceae, education, fire dependent species, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Gramineae, grasslike plants, ground cover, histories, humidity, ignition, introduced species, invasive species, land management, Larix laricina, moisture, mortality, natural areas management, openings, overstory, plant communities, public information, resprouting, Salix, season of fire, shrubs, species diversity (plants), succession, temperature, water, wetlands, wildlife refuges, wind, Wisconsin, woody plants
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Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): Hawaii, International
Keywords: age classes, air quality, Asia, biogeography, community ecology, competition, coniferous forests, decay, diseases, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, Galapagos Islands, habitat conversion, habitat types, invasive species, Japan, Metrosideros polymorpha, mortality, mountains, New Zealand, Nothofagus, openings, overstory, Papua New Guinea, pioneer species, plant communities, plant growth, plantations, rainforests, seedlings, senescence, size classes, species diversity (plants), subalpine forests, succession, trees, tropical regions
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Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Models
Region(s): Northwest, International
Keywords: age classes, air quality, biogeography, community ecology, coniferous forests, decay, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, habitat types, histories, mortality, New Zealand, Nothofagus, overstory, pioneer species, plant communities, plant diseases, plant growth, population density, regeneration, reproduction, senescence, size classes, soils, species diversity (plants), succession, volcanoes
Fire behavior on a 2 ha fire, inferred from physical evidence observed one week after the fire, was compared with fire behavior estimates obtained using the BEHAVE fire behavior prediction system and fuel measurements in Imperata cylindrica (Alang-alang) made in the same area.…
Person:
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire behavior prediction systems, Indonesia, resprouting, Imperata cylindrica, fuel bed, alang-alang, Acacia mangium, bark, coniferous forests, crown scorch, dead fuels, Eupatorium, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire models, fire suppression, flame length, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, humidity, Imperata cylindrica, Java, live fuels, mortality, plantations, rate of spread, scorch, site classes, soot, statistical analysis, wind
To demonstrate the usefulness of active remote-sensing systems in observing forest fire plume behavior, we studied two fires, one using a 3.2-cm-wavelength Doppler radar, and one more extensively, using Doppler lidar. Both instruments observed the kinematics of the convection…
Person:
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: convection column, smoke plume, lidar data, smoke columns, Doppler lidar, Doppler radar
Airborne measurements have been made in the smokes from large fires of standing coniferous trees and logging debris, standing chaparral, fallen jack pine, and wheat stubble. Panicle emission factors, particle size distributions, optical properties of the smokes, and trace gas…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California, Northern Rockies, Northwest, International
Keywords: Canada, PM - particulate matter, biomass burning, airborne measurements
Measurements of biogenic soil emissions of nitric oxide (NO) and nitrous oxide (N2O) before and after a controlled burn conducted in a chaparral ecosystem on June 22, 1987, showed significantly enhanced emissions of both gases after the burn. Mean NO emissions from heavily…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: chaparral, N2O - nitrous oxide, San Dimas Experimental Forest, biogenic emissions, nitric oxide, biogenic soil emissions
The first simultaneous measurements of gaseous nitric acid and ammonia in the smoke plume of a wetlands biomass burn were obtained. The measurements were made using tungsten oxide-coated diffusion denuder tubes from a helicopter during a prescribed burn on November 9, 1987, at…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: smoke emissions, wetlands, biomass burning, smoke plumes, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, ammonia, nitric acid
Emission factors for several trace gases were determined using airborne measurements from 13 biomass fires in North America. Emissions of methane (CH4), nonmethane hydrocarbons (NMHC), hydrogen (H2) and ammonia (NH3) were found to be positively correlated with the ratio of…
Person:
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, North America, smoke measurements, trace gas emissions, biomass burning, biomass burning emissions inventories, airborne measurements
Measurements in the plumes from seven forest fires show that the concentrations of NH3 were considerably in excess of ambient values. Calculation of NH3 emissions from the fires, based on the ratio of NH3/CO in the plumes and emissions of CO from biomass burning, suggest that…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California, Northern Rockies, Northwest, International
Keywords: smoke measurements, biomass burning, fire emissions, smoke plumes, airborne measurements, ammonia
Smoke aerosol was collected on filters from a helicopter during a 400-acre (1.62 km2) prescribed chaparral burn in the San Dimas Experimental Forest on December 12, 1986. Hi-Vol samplers were used to collect particles on both Teflon and glass fiber filters. Scanning electron…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: smoke aerosol emissions, San Dimas Experimental Forest, chaparral fires, particulate emissions
Gas samples were collected in smoke plumes over the San Dimas Experimental Forest during a 400-acre prescribed chaparral fire on December 12, 1986. A helicopter was used to collect gas samples over areas of vigorous flaming combustion and over areas of mixed stages (vigorous/…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: trace gas emissions, smoke plumes, San Dimas Experimental Forest, chaparral fires
Recent measurements indicate significantly enhanced biogenic soil emissions of both nitric oxide (NO) and nitrous oxide (N2O) following surface burning. These enhanced fluxes persisted for at least 6 months following the burn. Simultaneous measurements indicate enhanced levels…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: N2O - nitrous oxide, biomass burning, San Dimas Experimental Forest, surface burn, biogenic emissions
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Person:
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: forest health, eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, air quality regulations, prescribed burning restrictions
Emission reduction is a central part of the regulatory strategy for prescribed forest burning in Washington and Oregon. This paper examines the success of that strategy and the information systems needed to plan and tract progress toward emission reduction goals specified in the…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: emission reduction, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, prescribed fire emissions, prescribed fire planning, air quality, regulations, smoke management, Washington, Oregon
Emission factors and the size distribution for smoke particles from prescribed fire are described from data collected by airborne sampling, surface sampling using towers, and combustion hood systems. Emission factors for particulate matter (g/kg) range from 4 to 16 for particles…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, smoke properties, emission factors, particulate matter (PM) emissions, fire management, forest management, smoke management, air quality, particulates, Montana, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington
Major wildfires have affected millions of acres of forest lands in the continental United States during recent years. Many believe the increase in wildfire activity may be the result of fuel accumulations caused by 80 years of fire suppression, combined with drought and trees…
Person:
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: wildfire, Cascades Range, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, air quality, Shady Beach Fire, Willamette National Forest, logging slash, broadcast burning, fire severity, clearcuts, woody fuel loading, duff loading, Blue Mountains, Siskiyou National Forest, Silver Fire, Ochoco National Forest, Malheur National Forest, Umatilla National Forest, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, PM2.5
Proceedings from the 1992 annual meeting of Pacific Northwest international section of the Air and Waste Management Association. This was published on electronic media and is not paginated.
Person:
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, plume rise, smoke models, plume monitoring
Proceedings from the 1992 annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest international section of the Air and Waste Management Association. This was published on electronic media and is not paginated.
Person:
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: GIS - geographic information system, wildfire, biomass emissions, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team
The current study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of smoke on forced expiratory volumes and airway responsiveness in wildland fire fighters during a season of active fire fighting. Sixty-three seasonal and full-time wildland fire fighters from five U.S. Department of…
Person:
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): California, Northern Rockies
Keywords: smoke impacts, inhalation irritants, firefighter health, respiratory illness
Smoke emitted from forest fires in northern California in September 1987 was trapped in a valley by an inversion for 3 weeks. Daily maximum temperatures on the valley floor were more than 15 degrees C below normal for 1 week and more than 5 degrees C below normal for 3 weeks.…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Models, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: temperature, surface cooling, air temperature, catastrophic fires, climatology, heat, mortality, northern California, nuclear winter, plant growth, smoke behavior, smoke effects, soil temperature, weather observations, wildfires
Over the past decade, concern over potential global warming has focused attention on the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and there is an active debate concerning the desirability of reducing emissions. At the heart of this debate is the future path of both…
Person:
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: carbon emissions, climate change
CONSUME [1.0] is a user-friendly computer program designed for resource managers with some working knowledge of IBM-PC applications. The software predicts the amount of fuel consumption on logged units based on weather data, the amount and fuel moisture of fuels, and a number…
Person:
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: duff consumption, fuel moisture, piled fuels, prescribed burning, woody fuel consumption, Consume 1.0, CONSUME
Greater needle packing (number of needles per unit stem length) among shoots of Picea engelmanii(Parry ex. Engelm.), Abies lasiocarpa ([Hook] Nutt.), and Pinus contorta (Engelm.) collected at sun-exposed locations resulted in leaf temperatures (T1) that were well above air…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies spp., Abies lasiocarpa, air temperature, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, conifers, forest management, leaves, needles, photosynthesis, Picea, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, plant growth, temperature, Wyoming