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Fire behavior video from the 2013 Rim Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Stanislaus National Forest, California, Tuolumne County, light wind, surface fire, moderate severity fire, unburned, plantation, activity fuels, 2013 Rim Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2013 Rim Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Stanislaus National Forest, California, Tuolumne County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, unburned, plantation, activity fuels, 2013 Rim Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2013 Rim Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Stanislaus National Forest, California, Tuolumne County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, unburned, plantation, activity fuels, 2013 Rim Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2013 Rim Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Stanislaus National Forest, California, Tuolumne County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, unburned, plantation, activity fuels, 2013 Rim Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2013 Rim Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Yosemite National Park, California, Tuolumne County, light wind, low rate of spread, surface fire, low severity fire, unburned, burnout operation, unmanaged fuels, 2013 Rim Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2013 Rim Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Yosemite National Park, California, Tuolumne County, light wind, low rate of spread, surface fire, low severity fire, unburned, burnout operation, unmanaged fuels, 2013 Rim Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2013 Rim Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Yosemite National Park, California, Tuolumne County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, unburned, burnout operation, prescribed burn, 2013 Rim Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2013 Rim Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Yosemite National Park, California, Tuolumne County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, unburned, burnout operation, prescribed burn, 2013 Rim Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2013 Rim Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Yosemite National Park, California, Tuolumne County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, unburned, burnout operation, prescribed burn, 2013 Rim Fire

Leaves from three species of Eucalyptus were combusted in a mass-loss calorimeter to characterise the effect of fuel moisture on energy release and combustion products for this genus. Increasing moisture content reduced peak heat release and the effective heat of combustion in a…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: combustion, fire control, fire intensity, fuel moisture, heat, ignition, air quality, CO2 - carbon dioxide, leaves, Eucalyptus spp., Australia, fire management, fuel management, effective heat of combustion, emission factors, Eucalyptus bicostata, Eucalyptus saligna, Eucalyptus tereticornis, heat release rate, ignition probability, time to ignition, heat of combustion

Emissions of trace gases and C5-C10 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from Mediterranean wildfires occurring in Portugal in summer 2010 were studied. Fire smoke was collected in Tedlar bags and analysed for CO, CO2, total hydrocarbons (THC) and VOCs. The CO, CO2 and THC emission…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: combustion, wildfires, air quality, carbon dioxide, gases, hydrocarbons, Portugal, Europe, fire management, smoke management, Mediterranean habitats, wildfires, Mediterranean forest, emission factors, trace gases, VOCs

Smoke dispersion modelling based on the Fire Emission Production Simulator and the Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (FEPS-HYSPLIT) model was applied to prescribed burns in the Lake Tahoe Basin (LTB) during fall 2011. This, in conjunction with measurements…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: combustion, biomass burning, smoke effects, air quality, pollution, Nevada, fire management, forest management, smoke management, smoke forecast, biomass burning, emission model, PM2.5 emission factor, WRF, IMPROVE network

Smoke pollution from wildfires can adversely affect human health, and there is uncertainty about the amount of smoke pollution caused by prescribed v. wildfires, a problem demanding a landscape perspective given that air quality monitoring is sparse outside of urban airsheds.…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire intensity, fire size, wildfires, air quality, pollution, remote sensing, Victoria, New South Wales, Australia, fire management, landscape ecology, smoke management, biomass smoke pollution, eucalypt forest, fire management, landscape ecology, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, smoke plume, smoke pollution

Satellite based fire radiant energy retrievals are widely applied to assess biomass consumed and emissions at regional to global scales. A known potential source of uncertainty in biomass burning estimates arises from fuel moisture but this impact has not been quantified in…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel moisture, remote sensing, biomass burning, FRE - Fire Radiative Energy, FRP - Fire Radiative Power

Key Findings: 1)Climate forecasts indicate that the South's spring and fall wildfire seasons will be extended. 2)Prescribed fires, currently conducted on roughly a 3 to 5 year rotation across much of the South, would need to become more frequent if conditions become drier. 3)…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, climate change, fire potential, human health, PDI - Palmer Drought Index, fuel build up, climate scenario, wildfire potential mapping, future fire activity, prescribed fire alternatives

The Fire Modeling Institute (FMI) brings the best available fire and fuel science and technology developed throughout the research community to bear in fire-related management issues. Although located within the Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program of the U.S. Forest Service…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: MPB - mountain pine beetle, smoke science research, Fire Modeling Institute

Ground, airborne and spaceborne data were collected for a 450 ha prescribed fire implemented on 18 October 2011 at the Henry W. Coe State Park in California. The integration of various data elements allowed near-coincident active fire retrievals to be estimated. The Autonomous…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: remote sensing, GOES - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, biomass burning, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, airborne scanner

Wind erosion and aeolian transport processes are under studied compared to rainfall-induced erosion and sediment transport on burned landscapes. Post-fire wind erosion studies have predominantly focused on near-surface sediment transport and associated impacts such as on-site…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: dust, Idaho, PM10, post-fire, sagebrush steppe, sediment flux, wind erosion

Fuel Loading Models (FLMs) and Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCSs) fuelbeds are used throughout wildland fire science and management to simplify fuel inputs into fire behavior and effects models, but they have yet to be thoroughly evaluated with field data. In this…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: FIA - Forest Inventory and Analysis, FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, fuel loading, LANDFIRE, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, surface fuels, fuel type characteristics, dead fuels, fuel models, fuel types, wildfires, woody fuels, duff, litter, soil temperature, fire management, fuel management

We applied standard forest inventory and soil sampling techniques to estimate carbon stocks in aboveground forest components and belowground in soil and fine roots to 30 cm depth before, and immediately after, low intensity planned burning. Three areas within Eucalyptus obliqua…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: CWD - coarse woody debris, litter, biomass, carbon stock, understory, Australia, Eucalyptus obliqua , carbon dioxide

Fire disturbance is a primary driver of forest dynamics across the circumpolar boreal region, although there are major differences in continental fire regimes. Relatively infrequent, high intensity crown fires dominate North American boreal forests, and low to moderate intensity…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire regimes, carbon emissions, Russia, global climate models, fire intensity, fire size, surface fires, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, climate change, disturbance, fire management, forest management, coniferous forests

Boreal forest dynamics are largely driven by disturbance, and fire is a prevalent force of change across the boreal circumpolar region. North American and Eurasian boreal fire regimes are known to be very different but there are few quantitative comparison studies. Russian and…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire regimes, carbon emissions, Russia, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fuel loading, fuel types, rate of spread, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, fire management, forest management

Areas affected by forest fires that occurred in 2005 were mapped in the municipalities of Boca do Acre and Lábrea (in the southern part of Brazil's state of Amazonas) and estimates were made of the loss of biomass and carbon stock and the committed emissions from increased tree…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: carbon emissions, global warming, greenhouse gases, satellite imagery, Amazon, Brazil, fire injuries (plants), fire scar analysis, fire size, wildfires, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, mortality, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, tropical forest

Seedlings of Phacelia strictiflora A.L. de Jussieu (Hydrophyllaceae) germinate profusely after major fires in the Cross Timbers forest of Oklahoma and rarely at other times and places. Seed germination was greatly enhanced under laboratory conditions by exposure to a water…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: germination, smoke-induced germination, Oklahoma, Phacelia strictiflora, regeneration

Space-borne sensors provide the only way to monitor the global distribution and characteristics of fire. Dramatic satellite maps showing fire activity across the entire Earth have been providing a unique picture of fire activity for the last three decades. This chapter…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: satellite remote sensing, flaming, smoldering fires, fire-affected area