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PLUMP is a general-purpose, one-dimensional plume rise model for wildfire and prescribed fire planning. It calculates the characteristics of fire plumes, including vertical velocity, water content, excess temperature, rain, and ice. The model can also be used to determine the…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: PLUMP, plume modelling, lightning, clouds
[from the text] The Southwest has beautiful desert landscapes, forested mountains, and a rapidly growing population. People expect clean air and unrestricted vistas. They complain when their visibility is reduced. Visibility reduction is caused by pollution transported into the…
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Models
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: smoke management, RAWS - Remote Automated Weather Station
[from the text] Outdoor recreation is continuing to increase in the United States. Hendee et al. (1977) estimated that public use of wilderness areas will increase, in the 40-year period from 1960 to 2000, by nearly tenfold. A report by the Heritage Conservation and Recreation…
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Fire Effects, Social Science, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: public attitudes, recreation, fire management, public knowledge
Large-scale, recurrent fires in Indonesia in recent decades have caused widespread deforestation and transformation of peatlands, and have contributed to substantial smoke haze and greenhouse-gas pollution. In some areas, local community use of fire for livelihood needs could be…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Indonesia, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, fishing, livelihoods, peatlands, turtles, agriculture, community ecology, deforestation, drought, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire size, fish, fuel loading, GIS - geographic information system, grasslands, grasslike plants, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, hydrology, natural areas management, overstory, plant growth, population density, post-fire recovery, rate of spread, regeneration, remote sensing, scrub, shrublands, soils, vegetation surveys
The proceedings is a collection of papers and posters presented at the Symposium on Effects of Fire Management of Southwestern Natural Resources held in Tucson, Arizona, November 15-17, 1988. Included are papers, poster papers and a comprehensive list of references on the…
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: fire management, watershed ecosystem, cultural resources, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, smoke management, Utah, watershed management
Smoldering fires in organic soils have negative effects on air quality and motorist safety as well as global implications from their release of large quantities of refractory C. However, the ecological implications of their occurrence are relatively unexplored despite their…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Fire Effects, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Florida, smoldering combustion, wetlands, pyrogeomorphology, peat fires, hydrologic processes, fire feedbacks
This study uses panel data from a mail survey administered to the same individuals in 1996 and 2000 to measure change in public attitudes toward fire management programs on federal lands in eastern Oregon and Washington. Findings were generally similar between 1996 and 2000, but…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: survey, fire management, public opinion, thinning, education, fire hazard reduction, fire management planning, fuel loading, mountains, Oregon, plant diseases, public information, rural communities, smoke effects, smoke management, US Forest Service, Washington
Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, 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, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildland fires, adaptation, mitigation, resilience, information sharing
[from the text] Our last research brief focused on managing smoke emissions using a decision support system in the wildland-urban interface (WUI). The authors of this system used a look-up table approach using smoke dispersion and fuel parameters to estimate the impact of smoke…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, PM - particulate matter, smoke plume simulations, Gaussian Dispersion Models, BlueSky Modeling Framework, CALPUFF, HYSPLIT - Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory
This paper presents ensemble simulations with the global climate model developed at the A. M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences (IAP RAS CM). These simulations are forced by historical reconstructions of concentrations of well-mixed greenhouse…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Fire Effects, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Russia, CO2 - carbon dioxide
Typical hazardous fuel reduction treatments target small diameter trees for removal producing large amounts of woody material, much of which is piled and burned on site. Little is known about how physical characteristics and the environmental conditions under which piles are…
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Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest, Southwest
Keywords: pile burn, combustion rate, pile age, fuel consumption, combustion duration, heat flux, hydrophobicity, soil effects, vegetation response, invasive species, charcoal production, nutrient levels, burn intensity, IFTDSS - Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System
Fires are a major source of gaseous and particulate pollutant, including black carbon (BC). In combination with organic carbon (OC), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), BC from fire emissions causes air quality degradation. BC is also increasingly…
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Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: black carbon, air quality
Global change models predict that high-latitude boreal forests will become increasingly susceptible to fire activity as climate warms, possibly causing a positive feedback to warming through fire-driven emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere. However, fire-climate feedbacks depend…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: climate warming, C - carbon, N - nitrogen, succession, black spruce, Picea mariana, trembling aspen, Populus tremuloides, paper birch, Betula neoalaskana, deciduous forests, boreal forest, post-fire recovery, wildfires, climate change, overstory, fire management, forest management, Alaskan birch, quaking aspen
Wildfires are by far the largest contributor to global biomass burning and constitute a large global source of atmospheric traces gases and aerosols. Such emissions have a considerable impact on air quality and constitute a major health hazard. Biomass burning also influences…
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Year: 2016
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: CO2 - carbon dioxide, fire models, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, gases, fire management, smoke management
Smoke measurements were made during grass and forest understorey prescribed fires as part of a comprehensive programme to understand fire and smoke behaviour. Instruments deployed on the ground, airplane and tethered aerostat platforms characterised the smoke plumes through…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: black carbon, combustion efficiency, emission factor, PM - particulate matter, understory vegetation, RxCADRE, combustion, firing techniques, smoke behavior, Florida, air quality, biomass, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, CH4 - methane, military lands, particulates, fire management, forest management, smoke management, grasslands
The goal of this paper is to describe the overall meteorological measurement campaign design and methods and present some initial results from analyses of two burn experiments.
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Doppler lidar, micrometeorology, RxCADRE, low intensity burns, military lands, wind, fire management, smoke management
Characterising radiation from wildland fires is an important focus of fire science because radiation relates directly to the combustion process and can be measured across a wide range of spatial extents and resolutions. As part of a more comprehensive set of measurements…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: FRP - Fire Radiative Power, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, remote sensing, UAS - Unmanned Aircraft System, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, WASP - Wildfire Airborne Sensor Platform , RxCADRE
The lack of independent, quality-assured field data prevents scientists from effectively evaluating and advancing wildland fire models. To rectify this, scientists and technicians convened in the south-eastern United States in 2008, 2011 and 2012 to collect wildland fire data in…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: model evaluation, RxCADRE, aircraft
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar conducted in partnership with the NWCG Smoke Committee, NC State University, the Desert Research Institute, the National Weather Service, and Montgomery Community College. The webinar features researcher Matthew Fearon of the Desert Research…
Person: Fearon, Heffernan
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: mixing height, atmosphere, atmospheric dynamics
Frequent burning is a crucial ecological and economic component of the Kansas Flint Hills. Although burning is important for the preservation of tallgrass prairie and improving livestock production, it has become a controversial societal issue because of its potential impact on…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Kansas, burn season, tallgrass prairie, season of fire, air quality, biomass, soil moisture, woody plants, fire management, range management, rangelands
The use of fire as a land management tool is well recognized for its ecological benefits in many natural systems. To continue to use fire while complying with air quality regulations, land managers are often tasked with modeling emissions from fire during the planning process.…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, LANDFIRE, air quality, land management, fuel loading, FLM - Fuel Loading Model, Idaho, duff, fire management, fuel management, land management, coniferous forests
The Brazilian Cerrado is significantly affected by anthropic fires every year, which makes the region an important source of pyrogenic emissions. This study aims at generating improved 1 km monthly burned area maps for Cerrado based on remote-sensed information. The algorithm…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Brazil, burned area, cerrado, fire regime, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, remote sensing, savannas
The production of pyrogenic carbon (PyC; a continuum of organic carbon (C) ranging from partially charred biomass and charcoal to soot) is a widely acknowledged C sink, with the latest estimates indicating that ~50% of the PyC produced by vegetation fires potentially sequesters…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: pyrogenic carbon, vegetation fires
The dynamic global vegetation model (DGVM) MC2 was run over the conterminous USA at 30 arc sec (~800 m) to simulate the impacts of nine climate futures generated by 3GCMs (CSIRO, MIROC and CGCM3) using 3 emission scenarios (A2, A1B and B1) in the context of the LandCarbon…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Fire Effects, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: MC2 DGVM, fire regime, carbon stock
(from the text) For this month’s wildland-urban interface (WUI) focus, we asked Joel Carlson, a NAFSE community representative, for the number one publication he references to manage smoke during a prescribed fire in MA and RI. He chose a report published by Wade and Mobley in…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: smoke dispersion, smoke sensitive area (SSA), Lavdas Dispersion Index