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Short-term exposures to ambient particulate matter (PM) are associated with increased morbidity and mortality in the exposed population, and these same patterns have been noted during wildland fire episodes. Since the scale and frequency of wildfires are expected to increase…
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Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, public health, toxicity, aerosols
Typical hazardous fuel reduction treatments target small diameter trees for removal producing large amounts of woody material, much of which is piled and burned on site. Little is known about how physical characteristics and the environmental conditions under which piles are…
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Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest, Southwest
Keywords: pile burn, combustion rate, pile age, fuel consumption, combustion duration, heat flux, hydrophobicity, soil effects, vegetation response, invasive species, charcoal production, nutrient levels, burn intensity, IFTDSS - Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System
Prescribed burning is an important land management tool for upland hardwood forests, with fuel reduction, ecosystem restoration, and wildlife habitat improvement often cited as primary goals. Mechanical fuel reduction by cutting shrubs and small trees (also termed fire…
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Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: reptiles, amphibians, birds, invertebrates, mechanical fuel reduction, hardwood forest, land management, National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study
An issue of great concern on federal lands is wildland fires, which have steadily increased in frequency and strength over the past few decades as a possible consequence of climate change. Modeling wildfires under an evolving climate is challenging due to disparate spatial and…
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Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fuel loads, fire activity, NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards
This conference will specifically address wildland fire in the Eastern US, a topic of cruicial interest to the USDA, Forest Service and Department of Interior fire managers. Although the conference will focus on the East, the scientific and technology topics have national and…
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Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models, Social Science
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: DSS - decision support system, conferences, remote sensing, climate change, air quality
Project Objectives: We request support from the JFSP to: 1. adapt FFE-FVS to support fire-related economic analysis by linking FFE-FVS to IASELECT (Wiitala 1992) and CHEAPOII (Horn and others 1986). IASELECT quantifies the optimal economic performance of a fire organization in…
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Year: 2000
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FFE-FVS - Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator, fire suppression, cost-benefit analysis
PROJECT OBJECTIVES As requested under Tasks 8 and 9, user-friendly modeling systems designed for local use will be provided for modeling smoke from wildland fires. These tools will provide a means for conducting tradeoff analyses, with a focus on emissions production, of…
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Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FARSITE - Fire Area Simulator, BEHAVE
In the Spring of 2016, the Washington State Legislature passed House Bill 2928, the Forest Resiliency Burning Pilot project. This Pilot will examine the role of prescribed burning in creating healthier, more resilient forests. Prescribed burning, or controlled burning, is a time…
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Year:
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Washington, fuel reduction, smoke forecasting, forest resilience, low intensity burns, Washington DNR Smoke Management Plan, multi-day burns, air quality, burn plans
Fuel loadings, from canopy to litter and duff, are key variables for informing wildland fire emissions inventories. At regional to national scales, fuel loadings and their spatial patterns vary in both space and time, but current geospatial fuel datasets do not account for this…
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Year:
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel loading, FCCS fuelbeds
The purpose of this project is to actively distribute fire science research results through two currently scheduled international conferences. These conferences are currently being coordinated by the International Association of Wildland Fire. It is anticipated that between 40-…
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Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: conferences, fire science delivery
This U.S. Environmental Protection Agency modeling team proposes to provide expertise related to smoke emissions, modeling, and transport to support the design of future field studies focused on fire behavior. As part of that commitment, we plan to model all of the pre-burn…
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Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): 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, National
Keywords: FASMEE - Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, smoke transport, chemistry, CMAQ - Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System
The physics-based models FIRETEC and WFDS have been used to simulate a number of field experiments involving fire in wildland fuels. These models work by simulating the coupled physical processes driving fire behavior including the drying and thermal degradation of vegetation,…
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Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): 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, National
Keywords: FASMEE - Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, WFDS - Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Dynamics Simulator, FIRETEC
Recent advancements in fire-atmosphere modeling have increased the number of physical processes integrated into the coupled models. This greater complexity allows for more comprehensive representation of the complex interactions between the fire and the atmosphere; however, as a…
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Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): 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, National
Keywords: FASMEE - Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, WRF-SFIRE-CHEM, atmosphere-fire modeling
This proposal responds to JFSP FON #16-04 Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, Task 4: Smoke Emissions, Chemistry, and Transport. Over the past decade, significant progress has been gained in characterizing the composition, transport, and processing of wildland fire…
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Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): 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, National
Keywords: FASMEE - Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, smoke transport, smoke behavior, chemistry
The FASMEE FON requests proposals from individuals seeking to serve as discipline leads for the development of the FASMEE study plan. We propose to serve as co-discipline leads for plume development and meteorology for this endeavor. The proposal outlines what data are needed to…
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Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): 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, National
Keywords: FASMEE - Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, plume dynamics, meteorology, fire-atmosphere interaction
The radiation field - resolved in time and space and encompassing an entire burn unit - and the convective field that can be derived from it are essential kinds of evaluation data for fire models and input data for smoke models. The primary challenge of the Fire Behavior and…
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Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): 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, National
Keywords: FASMEE - Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, active fires, radiation, convection, soil heating
The assumption of homogeneous fuel beds that underlies most fire spread models fundamentally limits their operational utility and future advancements in fire science, and imposes a significant disconnect between real fuels, which are highly heterogeneous, the inferences made…
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Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FASMEE - Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, physics-based fire model , heterogeneous fuels , remote sensing, vegetation structure, fuel structure
This project will develop and prioritize the observations needed to perform this task, bring teams of modelers and observational specialists in various disciplines on board under separate funding, and coordinate these teams to create and validate a detailed study plan, including…
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Year: 2020
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FASMEE - Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, project management
Mega-fire events, in which large high-intensity fires propagate over extended periods, can cause both immense damage to the local environment and catastrophic air quality impacts to cities and towns downwind. The extensive 2010 fires in western Russia are only the most recent…
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Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, megafires
The Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE) is a multi-agency, interdisciplinary collaborative effort to identify and collect critical measurements of fuels, fire behavior, fire energy, meteorology, smoke, and fire effects that will be used to evaluate and advance…
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Year:
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): 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, National
Keywords: FASMEE - Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, WRF-SFIRE-CHEM, WFDS - Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Dynamics Simulator, FIRETEC
Mega-fires can adversely impact air quality in the United States and the impact is likely to become more severe in the future due to the possibly more frequent and intense mega-fires in response to the projected climate change. This study investigates mega-fires and their air…
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Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, climate change, megafires
This project is purposed to develop a consensus approach to undertake smoke model validation through field measurements. It builds upon needs described in the JFSP Smoke Science Plan (Riebau and Fox 2010), in the JFSP Models and Measurements Workshop, and lessons learned from…
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Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: model validation
The availability of integrated, quality-assured fuels, fire, and atmospheric data for development and evaluation of fuels, fire behavior, smoke, and fire effects models is limited. The lack of co-located, multi-scale measures of pre-fire fuels, active fire processes, and post-…
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Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, fuel consumption
As new information has recently accumulated, the purpose of this symposium is to bring researchers in this field together to discuss recent findings and their applications. Major topics include: 1) biomass burning emission characterization; 2) linking emissions to ambient…
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Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: biomass burning, symposium
This study is an integrated economic assessment of alternative fuels treatments. We examine ecological, economic and financial aspects of alternative fuels treatments paying particular attention to market and non-market costs and benefits, property damage, smoke, air quality,…
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Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel treatments, ecological impacts, public perception