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From the text ... 'Smoke from wild and prescribed fire has been an increasing concern in public health and safety over the last few decades. The Georgia Forestry Commission (GFC) encourages safe use of fire on firest lands in Georgia and provides a number of smoke management…
Person:
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, fuel types, Georgia, smoke management, understory vegetation, wildfires, wind
On the morning of 2 June 2002, an abandoned campfire grew into a wildfire in the Double Trouble State Park in east-central New Jersey, USA. The wildfire burned 526 ha (1300 acres) and forced the closure of the Garden State Parkway for several hours due to dense smoke. In…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air temperature, backfires, dead fuels, evolution, fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire growth, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, fuel moisture, humidity, New Jersey, rate of spread, recreation related fires, state parks, statistical analysis, wildfires, wind, fire-weather forecasting, Double Trouble State Park, meteorological factors
• Background and Aims The role of fire as a germination cue for Mediterranean Basin (MB) plants is still unclear. The current idea is that heat stimulates germination mainly in Cistaceae and Fabaceae and that smoke has a limited role as a post-fire germination cue, in comparison…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Ericaceae, Europe, experimental areas, Fabaceae, fire management, germination, heat, heat effects, Mediterranean habitats, plant communities, plant growth, post fire recovery, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, shrublands, smoke effects, smoke management, Spain, woody plants, post-fire germination, heat treatments, Mediterranean basin, smoke treatments, seedling growth, Cistaceae, Fabaceae, Ericaceae, Lamiaceae, Linaceae, Scrophulariaceae , Primulaceae
A new dataset of emissions of trace gases and particles resulting from biomass burning has been developed for the historical and the recent period (1900-2005). The purpose of this work is to provide a consistent gridded emissions dataset of atmospheric chemical species from 1900…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, biomass, biomass burning, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, cover, ENSO, fire management, gases, mosaic, particulates, remote sensing, savannas, tropical forests, wildfires, climate change, gases, particles, biomass burning, burnt areas, historical, satellite
Biomass burning is one of many sources of particulate pollution in Southeast Asia, but its irregular spatial and temporal patterns mean that large episodes can cause acute air quality problems in urban areas. Fires in Sumatra and Borneo during September and October 2006…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Asia, biomass, biomass burning, Borneo, fire management, fire size, fuel models, Indonesia, Malaysia, pollution, Singapore, smoke management, Southeast Asia, Sumatra, urban habitats, wildfires, biomass burning, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, aerosol, aerosol transport modeling, aerosol modeling, emissions modeling, smoke emissions, Sumatra, Borneo
Long term, high quality estimates of burned area are needed for improving both prognostic and diagnostic fire emissions models and for assessing feedbacks between fire and the climate system. We developed global, monthly burned area estimates aggregated to 0.5º spatial…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, fire management, fire scar analysis, fire size, gases, remote sensing, statistical analysis, trees
The trend in global wildfire potential under the climate change due to the greenhouse effect is investigated. Fire potential is measured by the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI), which is calculated using the observed maximum temperature and precipitation and projected changes…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Africa, Asia, Australia, droughts, Europe, fire management, climate change, greenhouse gases, precipitation, season of fire, South America, temperature, wildfires, wildfire potential, KBDI - Keetch-Byram Drought Index, projection, fire potential
Smoke from fire is a local, regional and often international issue that is growing in complexity as competition for airshed resources increases. BlueSky is a smoke modeling framework designed to help address this problem by enabling simulations of the cumulative smoke impacts…
Person:
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky, British Columbia, Canada, Cascades Range, competition, cropland fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fuel loading, fuel management, Idaho, land management, Montana, Oregon, remote sensing, smoke management, Washington, wildfires, BlueSky Modeling Framework, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team
This paper presents an operational approach to predicting fire growth for wildland fires in Canada. The approach addresses data assimilation to provide predictions in a timely and efficient manner. Fuels and elevation grids, forecast weather, and active fire locations are…
Person:
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Alberta, Canada, cover, elevation, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire growth, fire management, fire size, forest management, fuel management, fuel types, ignition, national parks, Northwest Territories, remote sensing, Saskatchewan, temperature, wildfires, wind, wood, fire detection, fire-growth modelling, Wood Buffalo National Park
Each spring, smoke particles from fires over the Yucatan Peninsula and south Mexico cross over the Gulf of Mexico into the United States (US) under the control of moist oceanic air flow from the southwestern branch of the subtropical (Bermuda) high. Smoke can be transported deep…
Person:
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, biomass burning, Central America, convection, lightning, Mexico, moisture, ozone, particulates, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, water, Central American smoke, severe weather, aerosol-cloud interaction
Recent IPCC projections suggest that Africa will be subject to particularly severe changes in atmospheric conditions. How the vegetation of Africa and particularly the grassland-savanna-forest complex will respond to these changes has rarely been investigated. Most studies on…
Person:
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, biomass, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, deserts, distribution, disturbance, fertilization, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel moisture, grasslands, phenology, physiology, rainforests, range management, roots, savannas, statistical analysis, suppression, temperature, vegetation surveys, adaptive vegetation modelling, aDGVM - Adaptive Dynamic Global Vegetation Model, Africa, climate change, demographic model, DGVM - Dynamic Global Vegetation Model, process-based model, savanna, vegetation distribution
Historical range of variation (HRV) has been used as a conceptual tool to determine appropriate management actions to sustain or restore diversity of ecological systems. This concept has come into question for both biological and social considerations, and the southeastern…
Person:
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: cavity nesting birds, coastal plain, Colinus virginianus, disturbance, fine fuels, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire sensitive plants, fire suppression, forest fragmentation, forest management, fragmentation, fuel management, game birds, Georgia, grasslands, histories, human caused fires, Jones Ecological Research Center, land use, logging, low intensity burns, Native Americans, nongame birds, Picoides borealis, pine, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, savannas, soil management, species diversity (plants), threatened and endangered species (animals), understory vegetation, wetlands, disturbances, fire regimes, historical, future range of variability, legacies, rareness, social acceptability, species richness
In this paper, the main microphysical characteristics of clouds developing in polluted and clean conditions in the biomass-burning season of the Amazon region are examined, with special attention to the spectral dispersion of the cloud droplet size distribution and its potential…
Person:
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Amazon, biomass, biomass burning, Brazil, distribution, forest management, moisture, precipitation, radiation, smoke effects, smoke management, South America, statistical analysis, tropical forests, water, wildfires, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, biomass burning, effective radius ratio, relative dispersion, specific cloud water content
In a future climate scenario forest fire activity over Portugal will substantially increase and consequently area burned and forest fire emissions to the atmosphere are also expected to increase. This study investigated the impact of future forest fire emissions on air quality…
Person:
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire size, fuel loading, wildfires, air quality, climate change, ozone, particulates, pollution, Portugal, Europe, fire management, forest management, climate change, future fire activity, forest fire emissions, air quality modelling, ozone, particulate matter
We present Daysmoke, an empirical-statistical plume rise and dispersion model for simulating smoke from prescribed burns. Prescribed fires are characterized by complex plume structure including multiple-core updrafts which makes modeling with simple plume models difficult.…
Person:
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: smoke behavior, air quality, military lands, particulates, Georgia, fire management, smoke management, plume model, air quality
We examine the impacts of aerosols on regional meteorology due to intense Siberian forest fires occurred in May 2003 using both reanalysis data and global model simulations. Our analysis of the NCEP-DOE reanalysis data shows 99% statistical significant changes in meteorological…
Person:
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, aerosols, Korea, Siberia, Asia, fire management, forest fire aerosols, regional meteorology, climate model, chemistry-transport model
Crop residue burning is an extensive agricultural practice in the contiguous United States (CONUS). This analysis presents the results of a remote sensing-based study of crop residue burning emissions in the CONUS for the time period 2003-2007 for the atmospheric species of…
Person:
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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: cropland fires, agriculture, air quality, remote sensing, Great Plains, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Texas, Washington, fire management, range management, croplands, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CH4 - methane, CO - carbon monoxide, NO2 - nitrogen dioxide, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, PM2.5, PM10, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
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…
Person:
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
Biomass burning and associated emissions of aerosols into the atmosphere play a vital role in atmospheric composition and climate change. During summer of 2007, Greece faced the worst natural disaster recorded in recent decades in terms of human losses, number of fire outbreaks…
Person:
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, radiation, remote sensing, Greece, Europe, fire management, Mediterranean habitats, forest fires, remote sensing, radiative forcing, Peloponnese, Greece
Coarse woody debris serves many functions in forest ecosystem processes and has important implications for fire management as it affects air quality, soil heating and carbon budgets when it combusts. There is relatively little research evaluating the physical properties relating…
Person:
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: combustion, fine fuels, fuel moisture, fuel loading, fuel types, heavy fuels, ignition, air quality, bark, C - carbon, cover type, decomposition, duff, fungi, litter, overstory, plant physiology, roots, slash, snags, soil temperature, wind, Australia, Costa Rica, Central America, New Zealand, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, fuel management, coniferous forests, pine hardwood forests, CWD - coarse woody debris, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, thermal properties
With the emergence of a new forest management paradigm based on the emulation of natural disturbance regimes, interest in fire-related studies has increased in the boreal forest management community. A key issue in this regard is the improvement of our understanding of the…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Models
Region(s): Alaska, Eastern, International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire frequency, fire size, wildfires, air quality, disturbance, climate change, paleoecology, statistical analysis, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, boreal forests, carbon emissions, charcoal analysis, simulation model
The fragmentation of mediterranean climate landscapes where fire is an important landscape process may lead to unsuitable fire regimes for many species, particularly rare species that occur as small isolated populations. We investigate the influence of fire interval on the…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, forest management, fragmentation, climate change, Mediterranean habitats, mortality, plant growth, population density, post fire recovery, regeneration, seed dispersal, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, senescence, shrubs, smoke effects, threatened and endangered species (plants), western Australia, wildfires, PVA, demography, climate change, RAMAS Metapop, soil seed bank, non-sprouting fire recruiting shrub, obligate seeder
State-of-the-art applications of weather, fire danger rating, and fire behavior in smoke management and prescribed burning by southern fire managers are addressed. Validations of fire predictive systems versus observed fire conditions are stressed as a prime need in the south.
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, air temperature, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fuel models, humidity, North Carolina, overstory, scorch, smoke management, wind, smoke management, fire danger rating
From the text ... 'Forty-eight hours into the costliest wildfire in Colorado's history, Mike Tombolato turned to his computer for answers on what to do next.The wind-driven blaze was fast approaching the city of Boulder....That's where fire models developed at the U.S. Forest…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: air temperature, Colorado, dendrochronology, ENSO, fire damage (property), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, greenhouse gases, histories, insects, laboratory fires, Montana, plant diseases, pollution, rate of spread, remote sensing, season of fire, stand characteristics, understory vegetation, wildfires, wind
A means of determining air emission source regions adversely influencing the city of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada from potential burning of isolated piles of mountain pine beetle-killed lodge pole pine is presented. The analysis uses the CALPUFF atmospheric dispersion…
Person:
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, British Columbia, burning permits, Canada, Dendroctonus ponderosae, fire exclusion, fire management, forest management, human caused fires, insects, mortality, pine, plant diseases, slash, smoke management, wind, wood, airshed, CALPUFF, influence region, dispersion modeling