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Presented by Nicole June as part of the REU Workshop on August 8th, 2019
Person: June
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: brown carbon, C - carbon, emissions
Ecosystem services (ES) were conceived to emphasize the role of ecological processes in supporting societal needs and to allow their inclusion in the decision-making process. Currently climate change mitigation is one of the most important services ecosystems can provide to…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: C - carbon, wildfire, ecosystem function, DGVM - Dynamic Global Vegetation Model, climate change, ecosystem services, carbon sequestration
Across leading environmental challenges-fire management, climate change, deforestation - there is growing awareness of the need to better account for diverse stakeholder perceptions across complex, multi-level governance arrangements. Perceptions often condition behavior,…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire management, deforestation, peat fires, C - carbon, Indonesia, policy, Q method, haze, conservation, transboundary governance, tropical peatlands, climate change, transboundary haze, management, consequences, biodiversity, agriculture, dynamics, services
Climate change in the western United States has increased the frequency of extreme fire weather events and is projected to increase the area burned by wildfire in the coming decades. This changing fire regime, coupled with increased high-severity fire risk from a legacy of fire…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: climate change, C - carbon, air quality, forest management, wildfires, thinning, Sierra Nevada, Abies magnifica, carbon sequestration, Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project, Dinkey Creek, fire emission, forest management, LANDIS-II, mixed-conifer, Pinus ponderosa, wildfire, fuel reduction treatments, mixed-conifer forest, Lake Tahoe Basin, climate change, wildfire risk, landscape, dynamics
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…
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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-…
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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…
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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…
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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
Much recent research has investigated the effects of burning on mature black spruce (Picea mariana) forests in interior Alaska, however little research has focused on how frequent reburning affects soil organic layer (SOL) vulnerability in these ecosystems. We compared organic…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: fire frequency, soils, C - carbon, succession, fire frequency, Picea mariana, boreal forest, soil organic layer, Interior Alaska, fire severity, climate change, C - carbon, permafrost, communities, resilience, ecosystems, interval
The possibility of applying infrared imagery to the study of a large, hot plume materialized by carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of fuel oil is investigated. In a specific case (the PROSERPINE experiment), due to the high carbon particle content, the…
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air temperature, C - carbon, combustion, convection, heat, particulates, photography, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, temperature
The Missoula Equipment Development Center (MEDC) monitored firefighters' exposure to carbon monoxide on two wildfires in CY 1974. On one fire most of the firefighters were exposed to levels of carbon monoxide (CO) higher than those permitted by the proposed standard that the…
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Safety
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, Idaho, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires
As part of the FOS-DECAFE experiment at Lamto (Ivory Coast) in January 1991, various aerosol samples were collected at ground level near prescribed fires or under local background conditions, to characterize the emissions of particulate matter from the burning of savanna…
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Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, backing fires, biomass, boreal forests, C - carbon, combustion, distribution, forest types, climate change, headfires, ignition, Ivory Coast, particulates, pollution, K - potassium, savannas, slash, tropical forests, wildfires
Atmospheric blockings in the regions of the Northern Hemisphere (NH) under general warming during recent decades are analyzed. The total increase in the duration of summer atmospheric blockings in the NH with an increase in the hemispheric surface air temperature over 1969-2022…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Climate
Region(s): International
Keywords: atmospheric blocking, climate change, wildfires, observations, satellite data, reanalysis data, Russia
Global use of energy-inefficient mechanical vapor-compression air conditioning (AC) is increasing dramatically for home cooling. Direct evaporative coolers (EC) offer substantial energy savings, and may provide a sustainable alternative to AC for homes in hot, dry climates. One…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, fine particulate matter, evaporative cooler, indoor environmental quality, air quality, air pollution, Utah
Lesson Overview: In this activity, students learn about 3 concepts: the nature of smoke from wildland fires (through a technical reading), the ways in which smoke disperses into the atmosphere (through a demonstration and presentations), and some of the ways in which people can…
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Year: 2018
Type: Course
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Northwest
Keywords: PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, health impacts, smoke dispersion
Lesson Overview: From a lab demonstration or video, students learn how smoke disperses (or doesn’t), depending on atmospheric conditions. They learn how smoke affects visibility and human health, especially if it sticks around for days or weeks instead of dispersing into the…
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Year: 2018
Type: Course
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Northwest
Keywords: smoke dispersion, human health, visibility
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…
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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
It is possible to delimit the areas of the North, Central, and South America that are most susceptible to fire and would have been most affected by burning practices of early Americans. Areas amounting to approximately 155 x 105 km² are here designated as the most burnable part…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: agriculture, biomass, broadcast burning, C - carbon, Canada, Central America, charcoal, chemical elements, disturbance, European settlement, fire frequency, grasslands, human caused fires, land management, Mexico, Native Americans, particulates, presettlement fires, smoke effects, South America, topography
We investigated long-term consequences of modified fire and climate regimes on ecosystems for a landscape in Glacier National Park, Montana, using the mechanistic forest successional model, Fire-BGC (a Fire BioGeoChemical succession model). Changes in various ecosystem…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, biomass, C - carbon, coniferous forests, decomposition, duff, fire exclusion, fire regimes, fuel loading, histories, landscape ecology, Larix occidentalis, litter, Montana, mortality, national parks, organic matter, photosynthesis, Picea engelmannii, pine forests, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, Pinus monticola, Populus tremuloides, Pseudotsuga menziesii, runoff, seed dispersal, succession, Thuja plicata, Tsuga heterophylla, watersheds, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Many potent air toxins are in the smoke of burning forest and range biomass. Firefighters are exposed to the smoke of both wildfire and prescribed fire. A comprehensive assessment of these exposures is not yet possible due to insufficient data. Preliminary data on firefighter…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, biomass, broadcast burning, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, clearcutting, coniferous forests, fire suppression, forest management, fuel appraisal, land management, logging, national forests, particulates, rangelands, smoke management, statistical analysis, toxicity, Washington, wildfires
Spatial trends in pre-industrial biomass burning emissions for eastern North America were reconstructed from sediment charcoal data. Petrographic thin sections were prepared from varved lake sediments along a transect of sites extending from NW Minnesota eastward to NE Maine.…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): Eastern, International
Keywords: air quality, biomass, C - carbon, charcoal, combustion, coniferous forests, European settlement, fire regimes, hardwood forests, land use, Maine, Minnesota, New England, paleobotany, particulates, prairies, presettlement fires
From the text ... 'The smoke rising from a grass, brush or forest fire is primarily formed by the condensation of moisture and other vapors produced through pyrolysis and combustion. This smoke formation depends on the rate at which the surrounding air moves into the fire to…
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Fire Ecology, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: adaptation, brush, brush fires, C - carbon, chemistry, combustion, fire equipment, fuel types, gases, grass fires, grasses, moisture, ozone, particulates, pollution, sampling, wildfires
'...Manufactured inorganic fertilizers now supply the majority of the nutrients which once came from farmyard manure. The grain goes into silos and bins rather than under thatch. Much of the livestock is housed in intensive buildings which do not require bedding. At the same…
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, C - carbon, energy, Europe, fertilization, fertilizers, Great Britain, livestock, nutrients, organic matter, pollution, public information, soil management, soil organisms, soils
'With reference to 'Holiday Highlands Prescribed Burn' (by Peggy Lantz, FN Winter '92), I fail to understand what was accomplished. Why do we need to 'open up the canopy' by removing trees that are already established and performing their function of providing wildlife food and…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aristida stricta, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, central Florida, energy, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire suppression, Florida, fuel management, gases, general interest, Gopherus polyphemus, hardwood hammocks, heat, human caused fires, humus, lightning caused fires, logging, nutrients, organic matter, overstory, O - oxygen, Pinus palustris, Pituophis melanoleucus, plant nutrients, plantations, pollution, Quercus, sandhills, seedlings, soil organic matter, succession, trees, wildlife, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management, wildlife refuges, wood
These questions arise not as a local phenomenon but on a world scale which is seldom appreciated. Fire regimes prevail not only over huge areas in south-central Africa and Brazil, but also extend through North Africa--in the Sudan Zone especially--and no doubt also occur in the…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Weather, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, air temperature, Australia, biomass, Brazil, Burma, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, distribution, fire dependent species, fire regimes, climate change, grasslands, hunting, India, pacific ocean, precipitation, savannas, season of fire, smoke effects, soil moisture, temperature, Thailand, Zambia