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The Northwest Regional Modeling Center (NWRMC) demonstration project was undertaken to determine the feasibility of using the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system to investigate regional haze in the Pacific Northwest. The project was also aimed at establishing…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, regional haze, aerosol transport, aerosol formation, MCAQ - Multi-Scale Air Quality modeling system
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: computer applications, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, Pacific Northwest, prescribed fire planning, air resource management, air quality, computer program, fire management, forest management, fuel types, national forests, smoke behavior, smoke management, US Forest Service, Washington
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: forest health, eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, air quality regulations, prescribed burning restrictions
This document represents a compendium of all supporting material prepared by the NBTT throughout the development of the Recommended Policy for Categorizing Fire Emissions. The Recommended Policy for Categorizing Fire Emissions has been developed over an 18-month period by the…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, fire emissions, Regional Haze Rule, WRAP - Western Regional Air Partnership, air resource management
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke emissions, prescribed fire emissions, PM10 emissions
Smoke exposure among wildland firefighters was measured at five wildfires in the northwestern US by the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station and Radian Corporation on behalf of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group. Twelve days of data collection were…
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Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: wildfires, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, Pacific Northwest, smoke exposure
Smoke exposure among wildland firefighters in Redding, California was measured by the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station and Radian Corporation on behalf of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Firefighters from Station 43 in the Shasta…
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Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: wildland fire, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, firefighter health, smoke exposure, occupational health, pollutants
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, prescribed fire planning, slash burning, air resource management
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, prescribed fire planning, slash burning, air resource management
Emission reduction is a central part of the regulatory strategy for prescribed forest burning in Washington and Oregon. This paper examines the success of that strategy and the information systems needed to plan and tract progress toward emission reduction goals specified in the…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: emission reduction, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, prescribed fire emissions, prescribed fire planning, air quality, regulations, smoke management, Washington, Oregon
In this paper I describe progress in reducing emissions in western Washington and western Oregon and include a projection for future improvement.
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: emission reduction, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, western Washington, western Oregon
A simplified model for predicting total biomass consumption and particulate emission yield for slash burning in western Washington and western Oregon is developed by combining results from earlier studies by the Forest Fire and Atmospheric Sciences Research team. The model…
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: biomass consumption, emission reduction, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, prescribed fire planning, air pollutants
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: emission reduction, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, air pollutants, meteorological scheduling
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: forest health, climate change, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team
Chapter 16 in the book titled, Natural and Prescribed Fire in Pacific Northwest Forests.
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, human health, prescribed fire emissions, coniferous forests, erosion, fire intensity, hydrology, logging, nitrogen, nutrient cycling, nutrients, organic matter, overstory, phosphorus, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, site treatments, slash, soil erosion, soil nutrients, water, water quality, watersheds, wildfires
Major wildfires have affected millions of acres of forest lands in the continental United States during recent years. Often, these wildfires burn through intensively managed, timber producing areas. This study presents a comparison of fuel consumption, soil fire severity, and…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: fuel consumption, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, Oregon, smoke production, soil fire severity, slash treatment, broadcast burning, clearcut, CONSUME, logging slash, Willamette National Forest, downed woody fuels, duff, Shady Beach Fire, fuel treatments, wildfire effects, emission production, soil fire severity
Several receptor modeling techniques are used to identify sources contributing to concentrations of air pollutants at receptor sites that degrade air quality. Potassium and carbon content of the fine particulate matter are the primary indicators for smoke from slash fires in…
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, PM - particulate matter, trace gas emissions, smoke characteristics, source apportionment, carbon, chemistry, chlorine, coniferous forests, energy, fire intensity, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, logging, particulates, pollution, K - potassium, sampling, slash, statistical analysis
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: smoke measurements, emission factors, LODI test fires
This paper describes emission factors for several gaseous and particulate matter emissions from burning chaparral fuels found primarily in the southwestern United States. Measurements of the smoke were taken for flaming and smoldering combustion phases by suspending sample…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: chaparral, prescribed fire emissions, air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, gases, hydrocarbons, particulates, pollution, fire management, smoke management
Emission factors and the size distribution for smoke particles from prescribed fire are described from data collected by airborne sampling, surface sampling using towers, and combustion hood systems. Emission factors for particulate matter (g/kg) range from 4 to 16 for particles…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, smoke properties, emission factors, particulate matter (PM) emissions, fire management, forest management, smoke management, air quality, particulates, Montana, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington
The Consume 3.0 tutorial is intended to be viewed individually by students online or downloaded to a personal computer and viewed offline. You may wish to incorporate the tutorial as a pre-course assignment or in-class exercise. A student workbook is available on the Consume…
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Year:
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Consume 3.0, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, models / software, tutorial, training workbook, CONSUME
Between 1994 and 2003, FERA inventoried and burned 106 sites in the United States including marsh grass, tallgrass prairie, sagebrush shrublands, chaparral, palmetto-galberry shrublands, Ponderosa pine/mixed conifer forests, black and white spruce/hardwood forests, longleaf pine…
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Year:
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, Consume 3.0, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, models / software, tutorial, training workbook, 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. The Internet server allows maps of ventilation…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: database, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, fire weather data, mixing height, ventilation index, wind speed
The overall effects of fire on ecosystems are complex, ranging from the reduction or elimination of aboveground biomass to impacts on belowground physical, chemical and microbial mediated processes. Since a key component of overall ecosystem sustainability occurs belowground,…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: microbial ecology, soils, organic matter, physical properties, nutrients, arid regions, Arizona, ash, bibliographies, biomass, biogeochemical cycles, Bouteloua gracilis, C - carbon, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire suppression, forbs, fuel loading, grasslands, grazing, Gutierrezia sarothrae, heat, herbaceous vegetation, Juniperus, land use, landscape ecology, leaching, litter, live fuels, microorganisms, mineral soil, moisture, mycorrhiza, New Mexico, N - nitrogen, Pinus edulis, roots, shrublands, smoke effects, soil leaching, soil moisture, soil nutrients, soil organic matter, soil temperature, species diversity, succession, temperature, volatilization, wildfires
Airborne measurements of several gaseous and particulate chemical species were obtained in the emissions from a wildfire that burned in an old black spruce forest in Alaska during the summer of 1990 [Fire A121 in Yukon Flats]. The relative proportions of most of the measured…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: fire, particulates, gases, airborne measurements