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The Global Wildfire Information System is a joint initiative of the GEO and the Copernicus Work Programs. In the new GEO GWIS work program for the years 2020-2022 , the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) aims at bringing together existing information sources at regional…
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Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: GWIS - Global Wildfire Information System, datasets, fire regimes, EFFIS - European Forest Fire Information System, fire danger forecasts, burnt area, fire size distribution, remote sensing, lightning, active fires, FWI - Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System
The primary objective of this work is to assess the local, regional, and national risks to air quality and visibility from wildland fire. This will be done by generating and analyzing statistics of daily and nightly variability of surface wind, mixing height, and dispersion…
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Year: 2003
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, visibility, dispersion
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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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
The Ventilation Climate Information System (VCIS) was completed with Joint Fire Science Program support in 2000 under a 1998-2000 project called, Assessing Values of Air Quality and Visibility at Risk from Wildiand Fires. It is a twice-daily, 30- year database of surface wind,…
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Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, risk assessment, VCIS - Ventilation Climate Information System, mixing height, surface wind, visibility, ventilation
Burning within the summer (growing season) range of the endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) may adversely affect the species by injuring or killing individual bats. Accordingly, the USDI Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) usually requests that Federal land managers strictly…
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Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: Daniel Boone National Forest, Myotis sodalis, Indiana bat
The Rare Event Risk Assessment Process (RERAP) helps calculate the information needed to manage prescribed fires, wildland fire use fires, and wildland fires. RERAP allows a user to dynamically calculate the risk of undesired fire movement, including how to: 1) identify high and…
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Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire spread, historical weather data, RERAP - Rare Event Risk Assessment Process, risk analysis, fire-stopping events
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
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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Type: Project
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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Type: Project
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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Type: Project
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
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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Type: Project
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