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The Fire Emission Production Simulator (FEPS) is a user-friendly computer program designed for scientists and resource managers with some working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications. The software manages data concerning consumption, emissions and heat release…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, CONSUME, consumption, FEPS - Fire Emissions Production Simulator, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, fuel moisture, air pollution, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team
FETM was applied on a portion of the Angeles National Forest (ANF). The vegetation of the ANF is predominantly chaparral; the fuel treatment scenarios comprise four levels of prescribed burning in northern mixed chaparral, the most common chaparral type. The scenarios ranged…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: FETM - Fire Effects Tradeoff Model, Angeles National Forest, fuel treatment alternatives
In 2001, FETM was applied on the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) of the Superior National Forest, Minnesota, as part of a Fuel Treatment Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). On July 4, 1999, a storm with wind speeds in excess of 90 mph swept through the BWCAW,…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: FETM - Fire Effects Tradeoff Model, BWCAW - Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, blowdown, fuel treatment alternatives
The Fire Effects Tradeoff Model (FETM) is a disturbance effects model designed to simulate the tradeoffs between alternative land management practices over long periods of time (up to 300 years) and under diverse environmental conditions, natural fire regimes, and fuel and fire…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FETM - Fire Effects Tradeoff Model, disturbance effects, human-induced changes, long-term impacts, natural disturbances, vegetation dynamics model, vegetation change
The 2nd Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference will be held from March 26-30, 2007 in Destin, Florida. It will focus on the fire environment - the 'fire environment' consists of fire weather, fire behavior, fire danger rating, predictive services, fuels, smoke management and fire…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, fire weather, conferences, fire environment, fire research, predictive services, fire danger rating
BlueSky is a modeling framework designed to predict cumulative impacts of smoke from forest, agriculatural, and range fires. The BlueSky smoke modeling framework combines state of the art emissions, meteorology, and dispersion models to generate the best possible predictions of…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: BlueSky Modeling Framework, BlueSkyRAINS, predictive modelling, smoke impacts, modeling framework, modular modeling system
Land managers need a tool to accurately and efficiently estimate the biomass of hand-piled fuels as pile burning becomes a more widespread and common method for treating high fire hazard areas with heavy surface fuels. Past pile characterization research dealt only with large,…
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Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: fuel moisture, piled fuels, prescribed burning, woody fuel consumption, biomass estimates, Consume 3.0, woody fuel loading
Many areas of the boreal forest of Alaska contain deep layers of moss, duff, and peat, resulting in a large pool of biomass that potentially can burn and smolder for long periods of time creating hazardous smoke episodes for local residents and communities and causing…
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Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: boreal forest, duff consumption, duff moisture, black spruce, Consume 3.0, feathermoss, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, forest floor consumption, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, smoke characterization, white spruce
Consume is a decision-making tool designed to assist resource managers in planning for wildland fire events (e.g., prescribed fires and wildfires). Consume predicts fuel consumption, pollutant emissions, and heat release based on fuel loadings, fuel moisture, and other…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: duff consumption, FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, fuel moisture, piled fuels, prescribed burning, woody fuel consumption, Consume 3.0, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, Consume 1.0, Consume 2.1, CONSUME, forest floor consumption, FFT - Fuel and Fire Tools, shrub consumption, Consume 4.2
The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) is a tool that enables land managers, regulators, and scientists to create and catalog fuelbeds and to classify those fuelbeds for their capacity to support fire and consume fuels. The fuelbed characteristics and fire…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, fire modeling, FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, fuel models, FCCS fuelbeds, fuel characteristics, fuel classification, fuelbed, potential fire behavior
FIREHouse provides user-friendly, web-based information about fire science and technology relevant to Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. For each project posted, the goal is to provide, as applicable, online, searchable access to: (1) project and tool descriptions, contact…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, Northwest
Keywords: metadata, fire research, reference database, publications, fire research plot map, clearinghouse, FIREHouse - The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse, Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, Alaska Fire and Fuels Research Map
The Applied Wildland Fire Research in Support of Project Level Hazardous Fuels Planning Project was initiated as a pilot project by the U.S. Forest Service in response to the need for tools and information useful for planning site-specific fuel (vegetation) treatment projects.…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: forest ecology, fuels management, plant ecology, wildlife ecology, decision support, fuels planning, fuels treatment, fact sheets
We plan to initiate and coordinate an inter-agency modeling consortium for the South that will develop and assimilate weather and fire models at fine levels of resolution. These models will rely on the mesoscale MM5 model and will eventually be able to supply regional and local…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: smoke modeling, MM5 - Mesoscale Model generation 5
Resource managers need the ability to predict and manage smoke movement associated with prescribed fire in the South. This funding will be used to speed completion of smoke simulation models and implement predictive models for all 13 southeastern states. We will initiate…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire prediction
As part of a proposed USDA Forest Service national framework for regional atmospheric modeling, as described in companion proposals from fire/atmosphere research work units in the Southern, Pacific Southwest, Pacific Northwest, and Rocky Mountain Research Stations, this North…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: forecasting
The organic layer (litter and duff) in forest, shrub, and grasslands can represent the bulk of the fuels consumed during wildland fires in southern ecosystems; it is imperative that organic layer depth measurements can be converted to mass as managers often measure the depth of…
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Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: bulk density, consumption, duff moisture, loblolly pine, longleaf pine, organic layer, Pinus palustris, slash pine, DMM600 - Duff Moisture Meter 600, hardwoods, Pinus taeda, Pinus elliottii, Pinus echinata, shortleaf pine
The Florida Division of Forestry Fire Protection Bureau has developed one of the most integrated and innovative fire suppression programs in the Country. This project will link to those tools developed by the DOF.
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire suppression, Florida, fire management, firefighting
Use of prescribed fire is an important forest management activity in the southern region with ~2,000,000 acres burned in 17,733 prescribed fires during the first 10 months of 2003 and an additional ~255,000 acres burned by 14,359 wildfires. Fire is used to remove logging slash…
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Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: BlueSky Modeling Framework, BlueSkyRAINS, FARSITE - Fire Area Simulator, FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, fuel loading, North Carolina, DWD - downed woody debris
The primary objective of the fuel consumption project is: Improve existing models to better predict fuel consumption during the smoldering phase of wildland fires; develop new fuel consumption models for shrubland hardwood, and boreal forest fuel types; implement modified and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: duff consumption, fuel moisture, piled fuels, prescribed burning, woody fuel consumption, Consume 3.0
Current fire danger and fire behavior prediction focuses on the flaming stage of combustion, while fire effects and resistance to control are governed by smoldering and residual combustion in heavy fuels and organic soil layers. Fuel combustion algorithms in current use are…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: duff consumption, fuel moisture, piled fuels, prescribed burning, woody fuel consumption, Consume 3.0, Consume 1.0, Consume 2.1
Prolonged drought and historic ditching in the southeastern USA have resulted in wetlands being unusually dry. Fire officials are often concerned that fires in wetlands may lead to extensive smoldering in accumulated organic soils. Many agencies - especially in the Atlantic and…
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Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: wetlands, Florida, Disney Wilderness Preserve
The Encyclopedia of Southern Fire Science (ESFS) synthesizes volumes of scientific knowledge about fire science in the southern United States. ESFS delivers grounded information to field practitioners and the general public with viewer-navigated text, photos, graphics, plus a…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: ESFS - Encyclopedia of Southern Fire Science