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Forest managers are challenged with meeting numerous demands that often include wildlife habitat and carbon (C) sequestration. We used a probabilistic framework of wildfire occurrence to (1) estimate the potential for fuel treatments to reduce fire risk and hazard across the…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: forest management, C - carbon, wildfires, air quality, California spotted owl, Strix occidentalis occidentalis, ArcFuels, forest thinning, wildfire emissions, Ponderosa pine forests, mixed-conifer forest, Sierra Nevada, risk analysis, crown fire, fire severity

Wildfires release the greatest amount of carbon into the atmosphere compared to other forest disturbances. To understand how current and potential future fire regimes may affect the role of the Eurasian boreal forest in the global carbon cycle, we employed a new, spatially-…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, C - carbon, fire regimes, climate change, fire size, fire frequency, Siberia, taiga, boreal forest, C - carbon, climate change, Sibbork, Siberia, simulation model, Spatially-Explicit, taiga, Southern Siberia, Sayan Mountains, disturbance, vegetation, mortality, wildfire, biomass

Aerosols emitted by landscape fires affect many climatic processes. Here, we combined an aerosol-climate model and a coupled climate-carbon model to study the carbon cycle and climate effects caused by fire-emitted aerosols (FEA) forcing at the top of the atmosphere and at the…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Models, Fire Effects, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, C - carbon, aerosols, carbon cycle, Remote Effects, feedbacks, Diffuse-Radiation, Landscape Fires, system, Future, emission, Impact, cloud, attribution, sensitivity

Forest fires are very common in tropical region during February May months and are known to have significant impact on ecosystem dynamics. Moreover, aerosols emitted from these burning activities significantly modulate the Earth's radiation budget. In present study, we…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, C - carbon, air quality, Himalayas, forest fire, biomass burning, black carbon, organic carbon, Surface Darkening, Himalayas, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Data Assimilation System, black carbon emissions, Era-Interim, Premonsoon Season, model simulations, light absorption, Temperature Data, Tibetan Plateau, climate change

Lesson Overview: In this activity, students learn that smoke from wildland fires can either disperse readily or stick around, reducing visibility on the earth’s surface and making it difficult to breathe. Then they apply health guidelines regarding smoke to a very important…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Course
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Northwest
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, visibility, air quality, human health