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Wildfire emissions are challenging to measure and model, but simple and realistic estimates can benefit multiple disciplines. We evaluate the potential of MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) data to address this objective. A total of 11,004 fire pixels detected…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, 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, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, British Columbia, Canada, fire danger rating, fire management, fire size, GIS - geographic information system, remote sensing, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, area burned, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, aerosol emissions
Daysmoke is a local smoke transport model and has been used to provide smoke plume rise information. It includes a large number of parameters describing the dynamic and stochastic processes of particle upward movement, fallout, fluctuation, and burn emissions. This study…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, smoke behavior, wildfires, aerial ignition, air quality, mosaic, national forests, pollution, North Carolina, Tennessee, fire management, fuel management, smoke management, plume rise, DAYSMOKE, sensitivety analysis
Mechankcal treatments such as roller-chopping, mowing, chain-sawing, and logging, and herbicide application, are increasingly used to manage fire-maintained Florida ecosystems. Goals include achieving or restoring desired vegetation structure and composition, providing habitat…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aphelocoma coerulescens, cavity nesting birds, cutting, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, flatwoods, Florida, Florida Scrub-Jay, forest management, fuel loading, hardwoods, herbicides, logging, mosaic, mowing, FFS - Fire and Fire Surrogate Study, national forests, nongame birds, Ocala National Forest, Picoides borealis, pine, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, prairies, prescribed fires (escaped), range management, red-cockaded woodpecker, reptiles, resprouting, sandhills, scrub, season of fire, site treatments, slash pine, species diversity, state parks, threatened and endangered species (animals), vegetation surveys, ecological restoration, mowing, roller-chopping, logging, Florida scrub, Sandhill, flatwoods, dry prairie, pine rockland
From the text ... 'As we move forward and as we put more prescribed fire across the nation, there are going to be things like smoke incidents, there will be accidents, there will be loss of structures. And, yes, there will even be loss of life. The future of prescribed fire…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, education, health factors, public information, fire management, land management, smoke management
In Australia the long-term ecolgical consequences of forest practices which lead to nutrient depletion may be very serious. In the absence of fertilization, cumulative nutrient depletion associated with intensive management (involving clear-felling, slash burning, and short…
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: ash, Australia, bibliographies, biomass, clearcutting, combustion, decay, disturbance, duff, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, eucalyptus, evapotranspiration, fertilization, fine fuels, forest management, fuel accumulation, humus, ignition, leaching, litter, logging, mineral soils, nitrogen fixation, nutrient cycling, nutrients, organic matter, particulates, precipitation, regeneration, sclerophyll forests, seedlings, site treatments, slash, slash and burn, soil erosion, soils, Tasmania, temperature, understory vegetation, wildfires
Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) may curb carbon emissions, but the consequences for fire hazard are poorly understood. By analyzing satellite-derived deforestation and fire data from the Brazilian Amazon, we show that fire occurrence has increased in…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, fire hazard, land management, deforestation, Amazon, Brazil
This document provides a list of publications produced by the Pacific Southwest Research Station from July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010. It includes series publications, science perspectives, and journal articles and other publications. The topics covered include all aspects of…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, 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, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather, Social Science, Aquatic
Region(s): California, Hawaii
Keywords: US Forest Service, publications, research publications
This paper presents modeling methods for mapping fire hazard and fire risk using a research model called FIREHARM (FIRE Hazard and Risk Model) that computes common measures of fire behavior, fire danger, and fire effects to spatially portray fire hazard over space. FIREHARM can…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FIREHARM, fuel treatment prioritization, air quality, coniferous forests, crown fires, distribution, drought, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, flame length, forest management, fuel management, fuel moisture, GIS - geographic information system, grasslands, LANDFIRE, moisture, montane forests, mortality, overstory, rate of spread, riparian habitats, scorch, season of fire, shrublands, smoke management, soil temperature, watersheds
Predictive equations for duff reduction and mineral soil exposure by prescribed fire are presented. An explanation is suggested for the dependence of duff combustion on surface fuel combustion. Surface fire duration and fuel moisture estimates of the National Fire-Danger Rating…
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: duff, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, site preparation, air quality, chemistry, coniferous forests, dominance, fine fuels, erosion, fire danger rating, fire management, fire management planning, fire weather, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, heat, heat effects, ignition, mineral soil, post-fire recovery, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, regeneration, season of fire, seeds, site treatments, smoke management, soils, statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, understory vegetation, water quality, Oregon, Washington
Particulate matter (PM) emitted from biomass burning and wildfire has been an air quality concern in affected areas such as dense population conters. Because of regulatory requirements, airborne particles smaller than 32.5 µm (PM2.5) are of special concern. Controversy has…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: biomass burning, fire hazard reduction, wildfires, air quality, air temperature, C - carbon, N - nitrogen, particulates, sampling, S - sulfur, understory vegetation, Pinus taeda, loblolly pine, Okefenokee Swamp, north Florida, Georgia, fire management, forest management, smoke management, coniferous forests, pine forests, biomass burning, chemical signature, PM2.5, smoke wildfire
The mass burning rates of several polymer systems, including polycarbonates, polysystrenes, polyethylenes, and wood were determined for steady-state combustion in an apparatus similar to that constructed at Factory Mutual Research. The work was undetaken to determine the…
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: burning intervals, char, chemical elements, combustion, fire control, flammability, gases, heat, Michigan, O - oxygen, wood