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We evaluated the accuracy of National Weather Service (NWS) Fire Weather mixing height estimates over the western United States corresponding to smoke plume events from 2006-2020. We developed a toolbox for measuring smoke-related aerosol mixing heights using Cloud-Aerosol LiDAR…
Person: Wright, Berkowitz, Liu, Mock, Weber, Nisbet-Wilcox, Ross, Toth
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: satellite, smoke
Fires, including wildfires, prescribed burns, agricultural burning, or residential biomass burning, emit substantial amounts of particles, reactive trace gases, and longer-lived species to the atmosphere on regional and global scales. These emissions and the products from…
Person: Wiedinmyer
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, air pollutants, biomass burning, atmospheric pollutants, emission factor, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, aerosol, health impacts, FINN - Fire Inventory of NCAR, VOC - volatile organic compounds
On 26 April 1986, the explosion and subsequent open-air graphite fire at Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant contaminated the soil, water and atmosphere alike with radioactive material. The 30-km2 Chernobyl Exclusion Zone remains one of the most contaminated areas…
Person: Eriksen
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: Chernobyl, radioactivity, air pollution, wildfires, atmosphere, radiation, exposure, human health, nuclear effects
Wildfire is globally important to climate change and is projected to increase in severity with it. Thus, improving our predictability and understanding of its spatial patterns and impacts on terrestrial vegetation dynamics are greatly needed, as well as our ability to quantify…
Person: Mekonnen, Zhu, Simmonds
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: climate change, greenhouse gas, CALAND - California natural and working lands carbon and greenhouse gas model, vegetation change, high latitude, boreal forest, arctic tundra, C - carbon, carbon budget, SOC - soil organic carbon, machine learning, Global Fire, E3SM model
The Wildland Fire Emissions Inventory System (WFEIS) came out of a NASA Applied Science program focused on creating maps of regional-scale wildland fire carbon emissions using the Consume emissions model and the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) for describing…
Person: French, Billmire
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: WFEIS - Wildland Fire Emissions Information System, air quality, land management, fire management, smoke management, atmospheric chemistry, FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, CONSUME, emission factor, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Canada, health effects, PM2.5, Arctic-Boreal zone
Rapid advancements in wildland fire modeling are promoting innovations in how we characterize and map wildland fuels. Before these models can be widely used, more research on fuel characterization and mapping methods is needed to support 3D model inputs. The 3D Fuels Project is…
Person: Prichard
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: 3D fuels, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, remote sensing, multi-scale imagery, fuel characterization, FastFuels, FIA - Forest Inventory and Analysis, fuel classification, CFD - Computational Fluid Dynamics, fuel consumption
Smoke impacts are increasing across the west. Many communities are wrangling with how to address this intrusive element, especially among sensitive and vulnerable populations. HEPA filters are a proven mitigation tool but for many, these filters are out of reach due to a…
Person: Krasilovsky, Gibble, Ray, Coefield, Lerch
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: air quality, FAC - fire adapted communities, indoor air filtration, HEPA filter - high effieciency particulate air filter, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, respiratory health, portable air purifier, portable air cleaners
The 4th installment of the Mountain Studies Institute's Learning Series will feature Dr. Jessica Gilman and her research on the air quality impacts of wildfire smoke. Dr. Gilman will describe her work making detailed chemical measurements of biomass burning from the NOAA (…
Person: Gilman
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: chemistry, health impacts, air quality, smoke components, VOC - volatile organic compounds, biomass burning, lignin, cellulose, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, fire temperature, smoke exposure, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, pollutants, wildfires, agricultural fires
Fire behavior video from the 2015 Willow Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, low severity fire, moderate severity fire, burnout operation, fire suppression, 2015 Willow Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2015 Willow Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, low severity fire, moderate severity fire, burnout operation, fire suppression, 2015 Willow Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2015 Willow Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, low severity fire, moderate severity fire, burnout operation, fire suppression, 2015 Willow Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2015 Willow Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, high severity fire, unburned, burnout operation, unmanaged fuels, 2015 Willow Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2015 Willow Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, moderate severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2015 Willow Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2015 Willow Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, moderate severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2015 Willow Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2015 Willow Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, moderate severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2015 Willow Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2015 Willow Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, high severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, fire suppression, 2015 Willow Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2015 Willow Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, high severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, fire suppression, 2015 Willow Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2015 Willow Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, high severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, fire suppression, 2015 Willow Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2006 Warm Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, Coconino County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2006 Warm Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2006 Warm Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, Coconino County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2006 Warm Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2006 Warm Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, Coconino County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2006 Warm Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2006 Warm Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, Coconino County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2006 Warm Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2006 Warm Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, Coconino County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2006 Warm Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2006 Warm Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, Coconino County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2006 Warm Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2006 Warm Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, Coconino County, light wind, moderate rate of spread, surface fire, torching, moderate severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2006 Warm Fire