The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has supported the development of a new resource for defining fuel loading across the variable landscapes of the US. The work entailed compiling existing data on fuel loadings categorized by Existing Vegetation Type...
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Person: French, Prichard, Kennedy, Billmire
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The impact of wildland fire smoke on air quality and health is an issue growing in importance to many health officials across the country, as well as federal, state and local decision-makers. This webinar gives an overview of EPA’s tools and resources...
Person: Long
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The literature-spanning several recent decades-describes numerous attempts to characterize the efficacy of cumulonimbus 'Cb' convection as a pollutant pathway connecting the planetary BL to the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS). The...
Person: Fromm, Peterson, Di Girolamo
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Background: The increasing size and frequency of wildland fires are leading to greater potential for cardiopulmonary disease and cancer in exposed populations; however, little is known about how the types of fuel and combustion phases affect these...
Person: Kim, Warren, Krantz, King, Jaskot, Preston, George, Hays, Landis, Higuchi, DeMarini, Gilmour
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Multiple trace-gas instruments were deployed during the fourth Fire Lab at Missoula Experiment (FLAME-4), including the first application of proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry (PTR-TOFMS) and comprehensive two-dimensional gas...
Person: Hatch, Yokelson, Stockwell, Veres, Simpson, Blake, Orlando, Barsanti
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfire is a natural and integral ecosystem process that is necessary to maintain species composition, structure and ecosystem function. Extreme fires have been increasing over the last decades, which has a substantial impact on air quality, human...
Person: Sokolik, Soja, DeMott, Winker
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildland fire characteristics, such as area burned, number of large fires, burn intensity, and fire season duration, have increased steadily over the past 30 years, resulting in substantial increases in the costs of suppressing fires and managing...
Person: Steblein, Miller
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfire smoke is typically a mixture of water vapor, gases, fine particles, and trace minerals from burning fuels like trees and vegetation, other organic components, and, sometimes, building materials.
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Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The dispersion of particles from wildfires, volcanic eruptions, dust storms, and other aerosol sources can affect many environmental factors downwind, including air quality. Aerosol injection height is one source attribute that mediates downwind...
Person: Vernon, Bolt, Canty, Kahn
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Background: Asthma-related outcomes are regularly used by studies to investigate the association between human exposure to landscape fire smoke and health. Robust summary effect estimates are required to inform health protection policy for fire smoke...
Person: Borchers-Arriagada, Horsley, Palmer, Morgan, Tham, Johnston
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES