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The damage caused by forest fires to humans and the environment cannot be ignored. However, there are few works about the traceability of tree smoke in current time. In this paper, a new system of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) combined with machine learning was…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: LIBS - laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, forest fires, wildfires, source tracing, principal component analysis, BP-ANN - back propagation artificial neural networks
Extreme wildfires are becoming more common and increasingly affecting Earth’s climate. Wildfires in boreal forests have attracted much less attention than those in tropical forests, although boreal forests are one of the most extensive biomes on Earth and are experiencing the…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forest, boreal forest fires, wildfires, CO2 - carbon dioxide, Eurasia, North America, water deficit
Background
Wildfire imposes a high mortality burden on Brazil. However, there is a limited assessment of the health economic losses attributable to wildfire-related fine particulate matter (PM2.5).
Methods
We collected daily time-series data on all-cause, cardiovascular, and…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfire, fine particulate matter, Brazil, mortality, economic burden, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter
Smoke pollution from landscape fires is a major health problem, but it is difficult to predict the impact of any particular fire. For example, smoke plumes can be mapped using remote sensing, but we do not know how the smoke is distributed in the air-column. Prescribed burning…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, wildfires, smoke plume, health impacts, air quality, Australia
Fire has always been an important component of many ecosystems, but anthropogenic global climate change is now altering fire regimes over much of Earth's land surface, spurring a more urgent need to understand the physical, biological, and chemical processes associated with fire…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire, wildfire, fire science
This StoryMap presents information about the use of prescribed fire on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, specifically: 1) what is prescribed fire, 2) types of prescribed fire, 3) pile burning, 4) understory burning, 5) broadcast burning, 6) benefits of mitigating risk, 7)…
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Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
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Smoke from wildfires is a well-recognized public health and safety issue. While there have been extensive efforts to help communities be “smoke ready”, most people would still prefer not to live with weeks of unhealthy air quality during the summer and fall. This webinar will…
Person: Graw
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: air pathways, air quality, wildfires, fuel treatments, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, fuel bed, vegetative strata, AQI - Air Quality Index
Forest fire research over the last several decades has improved the understanding of their emissions and impacts. Nevertheless, the evolution of forest fire plumes remains poorly quantified and understood. Here, a Lagrangian chemical transport model, the Forward Atmospheric…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Lagrangian particle transport model, Eulerian chemical scheme, airborne measurements, boreal forest, fire plumes, Saskatchewan, Canada
Smoke plumes emitted from wildland-urban interface (WUI) wildfires contain toxic chemical substances that are harmful to human health, mainly due to the burning of synthetic components. Accurate measurement of these air toxics is necessary for understanding their impacts on…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California
Keywords: UAV - unmanned aerial vehicles, wildfire, smoke plumes, air quality monitoring, low-cost sensor, VOC - volatile organic compounds
Soil seed banks play an important role in plant species persistence in fire-prone systems. Response to fire related germination cues often reflect historical fire regimes and can be important in maintaining ecotones between different forest types. We assessed the effects of heat…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: disturbance, Eucalyptus regnans, karrikinolide, Nothofagus, plant functional traits, Australia, germination
[from the text] California is facing an unprecedented and growing forest and wildfire crisis. Decades of fire exclusion, coupled with the increasing impacts of climate change, have dramatically increased wildfires’ size and intensity throughout the state. The 2021 wildfire…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: pyrodiversity, biodiversity, strategic planning, beneficial fire, cultural burning, managed fire, smoke management
Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity in part because of changing climate conditions and decades of fire suppression. Though fire is a natural ecological process in many forest ecosystems, extreme wildfires now pose a growing threat to the nation’s natural…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: controlled burn, wildfire resilience, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), partnerships, air quality, equity, cross-boundary
The vast Angara region, with an area of 13.8 million ha, is located in the southern taiga of central Siberia, Russia. This is one of the most disturbed regions by both fire and logging in northern Asia. We have developed surface and ground fuel-load maps by integrating satellite…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forests, Siberia, Angara region, clearcuts, surface fuels, ground fuels, fuel load
As wildfire risks have elevated due to climate change, the health risks that toxicants from fire smoke pose to wildland firefighters have been exacerbated. Recently, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has reclassified wildland firefighters’ occupational…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildfire, firefighter, multi-pollutant mixtures, occupational health, environmental health, exposure assessment, wildfire management, respiratory protection
Air quality in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) of the U.S has generally been good in recent years, but unhealthy events were observed due to wildfires in summer or wood burning in winter. The current air quality forecasting system, which uses chemical transport models (CTMs), has…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Safety
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: machine learning, air quality forecasting, O3 - ozone, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, random forest, multiple linear regression
The results of two previously published reports of the events and impacts of the Campfire wildfire smoke exposure that occurred in California in 2018 are amplified from the point of view of the potential toxic mechanism involved. The Campfire wildfire led to the exposure of a…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: Camp Fire, wildfire, smoke exposure, birth defects, pregnancy, rhesus macaque monkey
People have set fire to the savannas of West Africa for millennia, creating a pyrogeography. Fires render the landscape useful for many productive activities, but there is also a long history of efforts to regulate indigenous burning practices. Today, savanna fires are under…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: savanna fires, CH4 - methane, emission factors, combustion efficiency, Africa
Fire radiative power (FRP) is a basic parameter for fire characterization since it represents the heat emission rate of fires. Moreover, its temporal integration (fire radiative energy, FRE) is used as a proxy for estimating biomass burning and emissions. From satellite, FRP is…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): International
Keywords: RST - Robust Satellite Techniques, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, FRE - Fire Radiative Energy, Italy
At a fundamental level, smoke from wildland fire is of scientific concern because of its potential adverse effects on human health and social well-being. Although many impacts (e.g., evacuations, property loss) occur primarily in proximity to the actual fire, smoke can end up…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: human health, health effects, economic impacts, firefighter exposure, risk communication, social acceptability
Wildfires negatively affect the atmosphere and ecological environment. The rapid identification of smoke is helpful for early fire detection and positioning, which are significant for fire early warning, fire point tracing, and atmospheric environment monitoring. The purpose of…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke detection, concentration, inversion, Mahalanobis distance, fire detection, fire positioning, satellite imagery
Background: Given the increasing prevalence of wildfires worldwide, understanding the effects of wildfire air pollutants on human health, in specific, immunological pathways, is crucial. Exposure to air pollutants is associated with cardiorespiratory disease, however, immune,…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: wildfire exposure, air pollution, proteomics, immune cells, mass cytometry, immune system, smoke exposure, human health
The impact of smoke from wildland fires on communities across the western United States is an interdisciplinary crisis that requires an interdisciplinary solution. There are increasing calls for cross-collaboration between forest, fire, air quality, and public health…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: public health, community health, wildfire, WHWG - Wildfires and Health working group, Washington, collaboration
Fires and their associated carbon and air pollutant emissions have a broad range of environmental and societal impacts, including negative effects on human health, damage to terrestrial ecosystems, and indirect effects that promote climate change. Previous studies investigated…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: wildfire, climate change, biomass, change, economic development, 21st Century
Substantial natural environmental damage and economic losses are caused by fire. For this problem, automatic fire-smoke detection and identification are needed. Fire-smoke detection methods based on vision still suffer from significant challenges that fail to balance model…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire detection, smoke detection, YOLOv3, CNN - convolution neural network, attention mechanism, anchor-free mechanism, lightweight backbone
Background: Exposure to wildfire smoke has been linked with a range of health outcomes. However, to date, evidence is limited for the association between wildfire-specific PM2.5, a primary emission of wildfire smoke, and adverse birth outcomes.
Objective: We aimed to estimate…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, public health, preterm birth, birth weight, wildfires, air pollution, cohort study, PM2.5