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Rationale: Wildfires are increasing in intensity, duration, and frequency with smoke plums affecting the lives of millions over large geographic areas. The immune modulatory effects of wildfire smoke are unclear. We previously showed that a major wildfire smoke component, ozone…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: COVID-19, public health, air quality
Wildfires in boreal forests release large quantities of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, exacerbating climate change. Here, we characterize the magnitude of recent and projected gross and net boreal North American wildfire carbon dioxide emissions, evaluate fire management as…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: Canada, boreal North America, Alaska wildfires, carbon emissions, climate change
Rapid warming in Arctic tundra may lead to drier soils in summer and greater lightning ignition rates, likely culminating in enhanced wildfire risk. Increased wildfire frequency and intensity leads to greater conversion of permafrost carbon to greenhouse gas emissions. Here, we…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: CH4 - methane, Arctic tundra fire, airborne spectroscopy, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
The escalating frequency and severity of global wildfires necessitate an in-depth understanding and monitoring of wildfire smoke impacts, specifically its contribution to fine particulate matter (PM2.5). We propose a data-fusion method to study wildfire contribution to PM2.5…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: Bayesian analysis, calibration, citizen science, spectral analysis, spatiotemporal modelling, fine particulate matter, PM2.5, air quality
Rapid Arctic environmental change affects the entire Earth system as thawing permafrost ecosystems release greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Understanding how much permafrost carbon will be released, over what time frame, and what the relative emissions of carbon dioxide and…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: Arctic, permafrost carbon, climate change, terrestrial ecosystems, tundra, boreal, global carbon cycle
[First paragraph] Firefighters are embarking on an ambitious experiment to stamp out blazes deep in the Alaskan wilderness as a way to avert carbon emissions in what experts say is a seismic shift in thinking in modern wildfire management that has traditionally focused only on…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: climate change mitigation, carbon release, Yukon Flats, BLM - Bureau of Land Management, Alaska wildfires
Between 2010 and 2020, an average of 36,037 hectares of grassland burned in wildfires in California each year, emitting greenhouse gasses (GHGs) and particulate matter (PM). These emissions impact climate and human health. Cattle grazing removes herbaceous fuel through the…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): California
Keywords: livestock, herbaceous fuel, Monte Carlo, climate change, greenhouse gas, PM - particulate matter, grasslands
Bushfires and smoke pose substantial risks to physical and mental health across exposed populations. Enhanced community-level knowledge and response capability may promote exposure reduction and therefore protect health, however few interventions exist to achieve this goal. We…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach
Region(s): International
Keywords: bushfire, air quality, wildfires, health, resilience, online education, Australia
Starting from point sources, wildfire smoke is important in the global aerosol system. The ability to characterize smoke near-source is key to modeling smoke dispersion and predicting air quality. With hemispheric views and 10-min refresh, imagers in Geostationary (GEO) orbit…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: remote sensing, air quality, smoke dispersion, MAS (MODIS Airborne Simulator), FIREX‐AQ - Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality
Background: Wildfires in 2020 ravaged California to set the annual record of area burned to date. Clusters of wildfires in Northern California surrounded the Bay Area covering the skies with smoke and raising the air pollutant concentrations to hazardous levels. This study uses…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: air quality, PM2.5, wildfires, low-cost sensor, health impacts, PM - particulate matter
Wildfires have become larger and more frequent because of climate change, increasing their impact on air pollution. Air quality forecasts and climate models do not currently account for changes in the composition of wildfire emissions during the commonly observed progression…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: air pollution, air quality, satellite data, TROPOMI - TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument
Boreal forest ecosystems are regions vulnerable to climate change. Such areas act as the main atmospheric carbon sinks in the world. Wildfires are among the drivers of ecosystem modification and functioning. Boreal wildfires emit an annual average of about 10% of global fire…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Siberia, forest fires, soil emission, boreal forest, disturbances, climate change, carbon cycle, CO2 - carbon dioxide
The vertical distribution of biomass burning aerosol (BBA) is important in regulating their impacts on weather and climate. The plume-rise process affects the injection height of BBA and interacts with the air parcel lifting and cloud processes. However, these processes are not…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: E3SM - Energy Exascale Earth System Model, aerosol radiative effects, fire plumes, fire size
Emission factors (EFs) are crucial in understanding the effects of wildfire emissions on air quality. We examined the variability of EFs of three wildfires (Nethker, Castle, and 204 Cow) during the 2019 Western US wildfire season using the Aerodyne Mobile Laboratory (AML) and…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: emission factors, air quality, FIREX‐AQ - Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality, MCE - modified combustion efficiency
Climate change and human activity have increased fires in India. Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is released into the atmosphere by stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana and forest fires in the north-eastern and central areas of the country. Accurate short-term PM2.5 estimates…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire forecasting, deep learning, air pollution, LSTM - long short-term memory, India, PM2.5, fine particulate matter
Atmospheric pollutant gases emitted from straw burning and forest fires can lead to air quality and human health problems. This work explored the evolutionary trends of atmospheric CO2 and other pollutant gases in five countries of Peninsular Southeast Asia (PSEA) over a long…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: WRF-Chem, air pollutants, biomass burning, Asia, Sentinel-5P, CO2 - carbon dioxide, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, air quality, human health, FINN - Fire Inventory of NCAR
Sub-micron particles are ubiquitous in the indoor environment, especially during wildfire smoke episodes, and have a higher impact on human health than larger particles. Conventional fibrous air filters installed in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems play…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, HVAC, air pollution, indoor air quality, indoor air filtration, filters, health effects, Canada
Ambient air quality is the most important environmental factor affecting human health, estimated by the WHO to be responsible for 4.2 million deaths annually. Having timely estimates for air quality is critical for implementing public policies that can limit anthropogenic…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, low-cost sensor, wildfires, air trajectories, source contribution, Brazil, air quality
NV-RxFIRe provides an interface between air quality managers, land management agencies, and individuals that conduct prescribed burning in Nevada. The web map facilitates communication by providing access to a database containing information on burn planning and burn approvals.…
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Great Basin
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Progam details fact sheets and other information about prescribed fire in Oklahoma.
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
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The website provides additional information on air quality, prescribed burning and wildfires, and steps to take when the air quality is affected by smoke.
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
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The Nez Perce Tribe operates a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) delegated burn permit program within the exterior boundaries of the 1863 Nez Perce Reservation pursuant to the EPA Federal Air Rules for Reservations (FARR). The Nez Perce Environmental Restoration and…
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Northern Rockies
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The Air Quality Division's WyVisNet website is a 'self serve' resource: that provides access to near real-time ambient air monitored data and web cameras throughout Wyoming. The Air Quality Division may also post messages to WyVisNet for forecasted moderate to heavy smoke. The…
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
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Information page on preparing for wildfire smoke and video snippets from partners.
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Northwest
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The Colville Tribal Broadcasts, News and Information facebook page is one of the outlets which prescribed and wildfire information is posted for the community.
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Northwest
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