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EPA's Terminology Services are a suite of tools and services intended to address several issues related to information management. These areas are: Understanding EPA: EPA programs often define terms and acronyms differently, or use different terms to mean the same thing.…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: glossary

The OAR Policy and Guidance Web site is designed to provide access to rules, policy, and guidance documents produced by the USEPA Office of Air and Radiation (OAR). This site allows regulators, the regulated community and members of the general public to easily obtain access to…
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Outreach
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, air quality regulations, documentation

Ecosystems defy geopolitical boundaries and land ownerships. They ignore state, tribal, and municipal boundaries, private property lines, and agency jurisdictions. Collaboration is an approach to bridging the boundaries that subdivide ecosystems so that ecosystem management…
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: ecosystem management, adaptive management, collaboration

ROMAN has been designed for use by fire weather professionals and others requiring to current and archived weather observations across the United States based on weather observation networks.
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire weather, weather observations

The Geospatial Data Gateway (GDG) is the One Stop Source for environmental and natural resources data, at anytime, from anywhere, to anyone. The Gateway allows you to choose your area of interest, browse and select data from our catalog, customize the format, and have it…
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: GIS - geographic information system

National Weather Service Fire Weather page displays hazards, forecasts, current conditions, outlooks, and more.
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire weather, weather advisory, weather forecast, weather maps

Landsat represents the world's longest continuously acquired collection of space-based moderate-resolution land remote sensing data. Four decades of imagery provides a unique resource for those who work in agriculture, geology, forestry, regional planning, education, mapping,…
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Type: Website
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: Landsat

The RMRS Rocky Mountain Center (RMC) is part of the Wildland Fire Management RD&A Program. The RMC Team is engaged in development and deployment of science-based computer applications for real-time delivery of high-resolution fire-weather intelligence and smoke dispersion…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke dispersion, smoke forecasting, BlueSky Modeling Framework

The Aerial Photography Field Office is a division of the Farm Service Agency (FSA), of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA has been involved in the acquisition, use and distribution of aerial photography for more than 65 years. The Farm Service Agency…
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Type: Website
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: GIS - geographic information system, aerial photography, digital imagery

The PSU/NCAR mesoscale model (known as MM5) is a limited-area, nonhydrostatic, terrain-following sigma-coordinate model designed to simulate or predict mesoscale atmospheric circulation. The model is supported by several pre- and post-processing programs, which are referred to…
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Type: Website
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: regional climate model

Predictive Services was developed to provide decision support information needed to be more proactive in anticipating significant fire activity and determining resource allocation needs. Predictive Services consists of three primary functions; fire weather, fire danger/fuels,…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: NICC - National Interagency Coordination Center, NIFC - National Interagency Fire Center, predictive services

An interagency incident information management system to provide a single source of information for the public and a standardized reported tool for the public affairs community.
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Outreach
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: public information, fire incident mapping, public affairs, fire information

An EPA webpage listing links for every state and territorial environmental agency.
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: environmental agencies

The Clean Air Act calls for states and EPA to solve multiple air pollution problems through programs based on the latest science and technology information. This site provides information related to the Act.
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, air pollution, Clean Air Act, regional haze

Lists the conference proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Hazard and Risk, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire regime, fire weather, climate change

Lists the conference proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire weather, climate change

The term "fire adapted communities" was codified in the 2005 Quadrennial Fire and Fuel Review, and subsequently became one of the three tenets of the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Strategy. Fire adapted communities is not a program, rather it is a continual process with no…
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Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildfire risk reduction, Firewise, FAC - fire adapted communities

The Great Basin Fire Science Exchange (GBFSE) is one of fifteen regional consortia supported by the Joint Fire Science Program and is part of a national fire science knowledge exchange network. The Great Basin Science Delivery Project is part of the Joint Fire Science Program's…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: fire science, science delivery, information sharing, GBFSE - Great Basin Fire Science Exchange, GBRMP - Great Basin Research and Management Partnership , Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming

The Lake States Fire Science Consortium (LSFSC) is one of fifteen regional consortia supported by the Joint Fire Science Program and is part of a national fire science knowledge exchange network. It is a network of fire managers and scientists interested in the fire-dependent…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, International
Keywords: JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Michigan, fire science, Minnesota, Wisconsin, science delivery, information sharing, LSFSC - Lake States Fire Science Consortium, Michigan, New York, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Ontario, Manitoba, Ohio

The Consortium of Appalachian Fire Managers and Scientists (CAFMS) is one of fifteen regional consortia supported by the Joint Fire Science Program and is part of a national fire science knowledge exchange network. Its goal is to promote communication among fire managers and…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: fire science, science delivery, information sharing, CAFMS - Consortium of Appalachian Fire Managers and Scientists, Appalachian Region, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama

The California Fire Science Consortium (CFSC) is one of fifteen regional consortia supported by the Joint Fire Science Program and is part of a national fire science knowledge exchange network. The CFSC is a network of scientists and managers funded by the Joint Fire Science…
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: fire science, science delivery, information sharing, CFSC - California Fire Science Consortium

The Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) is one of fifteen regional consortia supported by the Joint Fire Science Program and is part of a national fire science knowledge exchange network. Their primary purpose is to strengthen the link between fire science research and on-the-…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: FRAMES - Fire Research and Management Exchange System, science delivery, information sharing, AFSC - Alaska Fire Science Consortium

The Southwest Fire Portal provides information about fire science and technology relevant to the southwestern contiguous United States. Our goal is to provide 'one-stop shopping' for resource managers, decision makers, scientists, students, and communities who want access to the…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather, Social Science, Aquatic
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: FRAMES - Fire Research and Management Exchange System, Arizona, fire research, New Mexico, information exchange, SWFSC - Southwest Fire Science Consortium, west Texas

The Southern Fire Portal (SFP) provides information about fire science and technology relevant to the southern United States. This 13 state area includes Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee,…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather, Social Science, Aquatic
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: FRAMES - Fire Research and Management Exchange System, fire research, ESFS - Encyclopedia of Southern Fire Science, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, information exchange, CAFMS - Consortium of Appalachian Fire Managers and Scientists, SFE - Southern Fire Exchange, Tall Timbers Research Station E.V. Komarek Fire Ecology Database and Thesaurus

The Rocky Mountain Fire Portal provides information about fire science and technology relevant to Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas. Our goal is to provide 'one-stop shopping' for resource managers, decision makers, scientists, students, and communities who…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Aquatic
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: FRAMES - Fire Research and Management Exchange System, Colorado, fire research, South Dakota, Wyoming, Kansas, information exchange, Nebraska, SRFSN - Southern Rockies Fire Science Network