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Smoke from wildfires in the United States is adversely affecting air quality and potentially putting more people at health risk from smoke exposure. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the USDA Forest Service, and other federal, state and community agencies…
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Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: indoor air quality, preparedness, wildfire, health, particulate air pollution, AirNow

Provides access to the data used in the GWIS applications. Data from the Current Situation Viewer are provided from the WMS (Web Map Service​).
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Year: 2021
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: GWIS - Global Wildfire Information System, fire danger forecasts, FWI - Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System, burned area, remote sensing, datasets

The datasets distributed from the new "County Profiles" portal are designed to be used for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change compliant fire activity reporting and emission inventories. From the new portal, users can access tables, maps and interactive charts that…
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Year: 2021
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: GWIS - Global Wildfire Information System, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, GlobFire, datasets, burned area, remote sensing

A tool that is part of the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) providing fire danger forecast up to 10 days in advance, 1-day lightning forecast and near-real time information on active fires, burnt areas and emissions worldwide.
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Year: 2020
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: GWIS - Global Wildfire Information System, fire danger forecasts, lightning, forecasts, remote sensing, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, active fires, burnt area

The Smoke Emissions Reference Application (SERA) database is a compilation of field and laboratory emission factors of wildland fire across the United States and Canada. The SERA database facilitates the analysis and summary of existing emission factors for emissions inventories…
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Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Canada, greenhouse gas emissions, PM - particulate matter, smoke management, wildfire emissions

Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a large-eddy simulation (LES) code for low-speed flows, with an emphasis on smoke and heat transport from fires. Smokeview (SMV) is a visualization program used to display the output of FDS and CFAST simulations.
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Year: 2015
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: LES - Large Eddy Simulation, heat transport, FDS - Fire Dynamics Simulator, Smokeview

Fires are an important source of atmospheric trace gases and aerosols and they are the most important disturbance agent on a global scale. In addition, deforestation and tropical peatland fires and areas that see an increase in the frequency of fires add to the build-up of…
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Type: Tool
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: area burned, trace gases, aerosols

Land managers needed a tool to accurately and efficiently estimated the biomass of hand-piled fuels as pile burning becomes a more widespread and common method for treating high fire hazard areas with heavy surface fuels. Past pile characterization research dealt only with large…
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Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: emission estimates, fuel treatments, pile burning, hand-pile biomass, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, FFT - Fuel and Fire Tools

A mobile application for prescribed fire smoke management with features including guidelines, a fuel calculator, fact sheets, Smokepedia glossary, and other helpful resources. Developed by North Carolina State University for the Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils and the…
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Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: guidelines, smoke management, mobile applications, fuel calculator

The Wildland Fire Emissions Information System (WFEIS) is a web-based tool that provides users a simple user interface for computing wildland fire emissions across North America at landscape to regional scales (1-km spatial resolution). WFEIS provides access to fire perimeter…
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Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel loading, fuel consumption

The HYSPLIT (HYbrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory) model is the newest version of a complete system for computing simple air parcel trajectories to complex dispersion and deposition simulations. As a result of a joint effort between NOAA and Australia's Bureau…
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Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: advection, air pollution, dispersion, pollutants, puff model

VIEWS is a website and database system designed to provide easy access to a wide variety of air quality data through an interactive suite of query, visualization, and analysis tools. Ground-based measurements from dozens of monitoring networks, air quality modeling results,…
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Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, database

The US National Atlas Data site provides a source for geospatial data including political boundaries, roads, waterways, and population centers. Nearly all data available in the National Atlas Map Maker can be downloaded at no cost.
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Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: database, downloading, map layers

The Hazard Mapping System (HMS) is an interactive processing system that allows the trained satellite analysts in the Satellite Analysis Branch (SAB), within the Satellite Services Division (SSD), to manually integrate data from automated fire detection algorithms using GOES and…
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Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire map, aerosol, smoke map

MesoWest is an ongoing cooperative project between researchers at the University of Utah, forecasters at the Salt Lake City National Weather Service Office, the NWS Western Region Headquarters, and personnel of participating agencies, universities, and commercial firms. The goal…
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Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: weather observations, weather maps

The AQS Data Mart is a database containing all of the information from the AQS system. The AQS Data Mart was built as a storehouse of air quality information that allows users to make queries of unlimited quantities of data. The main AQS system must maintain constant readiness…
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Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, database, AQI - Air Quality Index

The Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) is a weather modeling system for mesoscale numerical predictions for atmospheric research and operational forecasting.
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Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: weather prediction, Mesoscale

A computer-imaging software program that simulates visual air quality differences of various scenes.
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Type: Tool
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, aerosols, visibility

VSmoke-Web is a web-based implementation of Vsmoke for planning prescribed burns in the Southern United States. It is a Gaussian smoke dispersion model that calculates isopleths of surface smoke concentration.
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Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, AQI - Air Quality Index

CAMx is an Eulerian photochemical dispersion model that allows for integrated "one-atmosphere" assessments of gaseous and particulate air pollution (ozone, particulate matter, air toxics) over spatial scales ranging from neighborhoods to continents. It is designed to unify all…
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Type: Tool
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, air pollution, ozone, PM - particulate matter

The First Order Fire Effects Model Mapping Tool (FOFEMMT) provides an interface between ArcGIS desktop software and the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) (Reinhardt 2003). FOFEM is a non-spatial fire effects analysis program that computes potential first order fire effects…
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Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, spatial analysis, tree mortality, soil heating, fuel consumption, ArcGIS

The original Emissions Production Model (EPM) was designed to help managers estimate and mitigate the rates of heat, particles, and carbon gas emissions from controlled burns of harvest-slash residue in Northwest forests. This model has been updated with a number of significant…
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Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: FEPS - Fire Emissions Production Simulator, carbon emissions, EPM - Emissions Production Model, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, heat release, source strength model, coniferous logging slash

CONSUME [1.0] is a user-friendly computer program designed for resource managers with some working knowledge of IBM-PC applications. The software predicts the amount of fuel consumption on logged units based on weather data, the amount and fuel moisture of fuels, and a number of…
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Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: duff consumption, fuel moisture, piled fuels, prescribed burning, woody fuel consumption, Consume 1.0, CONSUME

The ventilation climate information system (VCIS) allows users to assess risks to values of air quality and visibility from historical patterns of ventilation conditions. It is available through an interactive, Internet map server that allows maps of ventilation potential to be…
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Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, ventilation index, visibility

Ventilated Valley Box Model is a screening model designed to predict ground level concentrations of particulate matter and gaseous pollutants under stagnation conditions in mountain valleys. The model assumes completely mixed valley with defined top; simplicity requires several…
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Year: 1991
Type: Tool
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: ventilation, TSARS - Tiered Smoke Air Resource System