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The purpose of this work is to propose new indices for the spatial validation of hazardous plumes forecast, and apply and test them with data of a case study. One, the Plume-Overlap-Area Hit index, is a modification of a widely used index that considers the overlap area between…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: grass fires, rangeland fires, wildfires, remote sensing, Argentina, South America, fire management, range management, smoke management, grasslands, plume forecast, dispersion model, validation index, case study
Durative haze clouds with unusual yellow color appeared in East China in agricultural burning period during June 8-12 in 2012, causing extreme air pollution in densely populated regions including Jiangsu, Hubei, and the Yangtze River Delta. The spatial variation, vertical…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: cropland fires, aerosols, agriculture, air quality, pollution, remote sensing, China, Asia, fire management, range management, croplands, yellow haze, agricultural burning, satellite, dust transport, East China
Background: Exposure to wildfire smoke has been associated with cardiopulmonary health impacts. Climate change will increase the severity and frequency of smoke events, suggesting a need for enhanced public health protection. Forecasts of smoke exposure can facilitate public…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, Northwest
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, health factors, remote sensing, British Columbia, Canada, fire management, smoke management
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
Estimates of methane wildfire emissions from Northeast Eurasia for years 2000-2011 are reported on the basis of satellite burned area data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS MCD45 data product) and ecosystem-dependent fire emission parameters. Average…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, air quality, CH4 - methane, remote sensing, Asia, Europe, fire management, smoke management, boreal forests, wetlands, methane emissions, biomass burning, satellite observations, boreal forest
Carbon monoxide (CO) is an important greenhouse gas that is emitted during the incomplete combustion of biomass burning. In this study, we assessed the Measurements Of Pollution In the Troposphere (MOPITT) CO retrievals from two different biomass burning regions, fires in the…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, cropland fires, slash and burn, agriculture, CO - carbon monoxide, remote sensing, India, Asia, fire management, smoke management, forest and agriculture residue fires, FRP - Fire Radiative Power
This report highlights selected accomplishments by the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station's Wildland Fire and Fuels Research & Development projects in support of the National Fire Plan from 2008 through 2012. These projects are examples of the broad range of…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: NFP - National Fire Plan, fire science, fire management, fire research, science delivery
Frequent wildfires emit large amounts of black carbon (BC) into the atmosphere in the semiarid regions of the African continent. This atmospheric BC efficiently absorbs shortwave radiation and thus modifies the climate system on a regional scale. Therefore, it is essential to…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, climate change, remote sensing, vegetation surveys, Africa, fire management, smoke management, black carbon, wildfire, Africa, emission factor, regional variation
We used a Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) image from the 2011 Wallow fire in Arizona, USA, in combination with field data to assess different methods for determining fire severity. These include the normalised burn ratio (NBR), the differenced NBR (dNBR), the relative dNBR (RdNBR)…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: fire severity, NBR - Normalized Burn Ratio, Arizona, carbon cycle, Landsat TM (Thematic Mapper), spectral analysis, burning efficiency, Wallow Fire, fire case histories, fire intensity, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, duff, litter, remote sensing, shrubs, size classes, statistical analysis, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, fire management, forest management, soil management, coniferous forests