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CMAQ (see-mak), the Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System, is an active open-source development project of the US Environmental Protection Agencythat consists of a suite of programs for conducting air quality model simulations. CMAQ combines current knowledge in…
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Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, clouds, CMAQ - Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System, dry deposition, gas phase, vertical advection, vertical diffusion
The Smoke Emissions Reference Application (SERA) database is a compilation of field and laboratory emission factors of wildland fire across the United States and Canada. The SERA database facilitates the analysis and summary of existing emission factors for emissions inventories…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Canada, greenhouse gas emissions, PM - particulate matter, smoke management, wildfire emissions
The Fire Emission Production Simulator (FEPS) manages data concerning consumption, emissions and heat release characteristics of prescribed burns and wildland fires. FEPS can be used for most forest, shrub and grassland types in North America and the world. The program allows…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FEPS - Fire Emissions Production Simulator, EPM - Emissions Production Model, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, consumption, heat release, FFT - Fuel and Fire Tools
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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Year: 2014
Type: Tool
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, woody fuel consumption, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, southern pine forests, eastern mixed hardwood forests, Consume 4.2, shrub consumption, forest floor consumption, FFT - Fuel and Fire Tools
Fuel and Fire Tools (FFT) is a software application that integrates the Fuel Characteristics Classification System (version 3.0), Consume (version 4.2), FEPS (version 2.0), Pile Calculator, and Digital Photo Series into a single user interface. All of the tools were developed…
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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, National
Keywords: CONSUME, FEPS - Fire Emissions Production Simulator, FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, software, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, Digital Photo Series, fuelbeds, Pile Calculator
First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed fires that best…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, risk assessment
Land managers needed a tool to accurately and efficiently estimated 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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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: emission estimates, fuel treatments, pile burning, hand-pile biomass, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, FFT - Fuel and Fire Tools
A mobile application for prescribed fire smoke management with features including guidelines, a fuel calculator, fact sheets, Smokepedia glossary, and other helpful resources. Developed by North Carolina State University for the Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils and the…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: guidelines, smoke management, mobile applications, fuel calculator
The Wildland Fire Emissions Information System (WFEIS) is a web-based tool that provides users a simple user interface for computing wildland fire emissions across North America at landscape to regional scales (1-km spatial resolution). WFEIS provides access to fire perimeter…
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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, fuel consumption
The HYSPLIT (HYbrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory) model is the newest version of a complete system for computing simple air parcel trajectories to complex dispersion and deposition simulations. As a result of a joint effort between NOAA and Australia's Bureau…
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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: advection, air pollution, dispersion, pollutants, puff model
The Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) is a weather modeling system for mesoscale numerical predictions for atmospheric research and operational forecasting.
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: weather prediction, Mesoscale
A computer-imaging software program that simulates visual air quality differences of various scenes.
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, aerosols, visibility
VSmoke-Web is a web-based implementation of Vsmoke for planning prescribed burns in the Southern United States. It is a Gaussian smoke dispersion model that calculates isopleths of surface smoke concentration.
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, AQI - Air Quality Index
CAMx is an Eulerian photochemical dispersion model that allows for integrated "one-atmosphere" assessments of gaseous and particulate air pollution (ozone, particulate matter, air toxics) over spatial scales ranging from neighborhoods to continents. It is designed to unify all…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, air pollution, ozone, PM - particulate matter
The Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Dynamics Simulator (WFDS) is an extension of NIST's structural Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) to fuels that include vegetation. WFDS uses computational fluid dynamics methods to solve the governing equations for buoyant flow, heat transfer,…
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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, National
Keywords: vegetation, fire spread, FDS - Fire Dynamics Simulator, WFDS - Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Dynamics Simulator
The First Order Fire Effects Model Mapping Tool (FOFEMMT) provides an interface between ArcGIS desktop software and the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) (Reinhardt 2003). FOFEM is a non-spatial fire effects analysis program that computes potential first order fire effects…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, spatial analysis, tree mortality, soil heating, fuel consumption, ArcGIS
The Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) is a web-based application designed to make fuel treatment planning and analysis more efficient and effective. IFTDSS provides access to data and models through one simple user interface. It is available to all…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: LANDFIRE, IFTDSS - Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System, fuels treatment planning
The Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) assists fire managers and analysts in making strategic and tactical decisions for fire incidents. It has replaced the WFSA (Wildland Fire Situation Analysis), Wildland Fire Implementation Plan (WFIP), and Long-Term Implementation…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Planning, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: WFDSS - Wildland Fire Decision Support System
The original Emissions Production Model (EPM) was designed to help managers estimate and mitigate the rates of heat, particles, and carbon gas emissions from controlled burns of harvest-slash residue in Northwest forests. This model has been updated with a number of significant…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: FEPS - Fire Emissions Production Simulator, carbon emissions, EPM - Emissions Production Model, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, heat release, source strength model, coniferous logging slash
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 characteristics…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: consumption, FEPS - Fire Emissions Production Simulator, EPM - Emissions Production Model, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, heat release
CONSUME [1.0] is a user-friendly computer program designed for resource managers with some working knowledge of IBM-PC applications. The software predicts the amount of fuel consumption on logged units based on weather data, the amount and fuel moisture of fuels, and a number of…
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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): Northwest
Keywords: duff consumption, fuel moisture, piled fuels, prescribed burning, woody fuel consumption, Consume 1.0, CONSUME
Consume is a user-friendly software application designed for resource managers and scientists with some working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications. Land managers and researchers input fuel characteristics, lighting patterns, fuel conditions, and meteorological…
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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, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, Consume 3.0
Ventilated Valley Box Model is a screening model designed to predict ground level concentrations of particulate matter and gaseous pollutants under stagnation conditions in mountain valleys. The model assumes completely mixed valley with defined top; simplicity requires several…
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Year: 1991
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: ventilation, TSARS - Tiered Smoke Air Resource System
The Smoke Impact Spreadsheet (SIS) model is a simple-to-use, screening-level modeling system for calculating PM2.5 emissions and airborne concentrations downwind of natural or managed wildland fires. As a screening model, SIS provides conservative (that is, tending toward higher…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke emissions, SIS - Smoke Impact Spreadsheet, smoke, smoke dispersion, PM2.5 emissions, PM2.5 airborne concentrations
RAINS is the Rapid Access Information System, an interactive, web-based, map and database server developed in partnership with the EPA. Together, BlueSky and RAINS allow for quantitative assessment of smoke impacts on sensitive receptors. Air regulators use BlueSky and…
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Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: BlueSkyRAINS, GIS - geographic information system, RAINS - Rapid Access Information System