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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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Type: Tool
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
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
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
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 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
The ventilation climate information system (VCIS) allows users to assess risks to values of air quality and visibility from historical patterns of ventilation conditions. It is available through an interactive, Internet map server that allows maps of ventilation potential to be…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, ventilation index, visibility
This program calculates the consumption of fuel, emission of particles, and dispersion of these pollutants produced by prescribed burning of forest and range vegetation.
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel consumption, particles, SASEM - Simple Approach Smoke Estimation Model
This glossary provides the wildland fire and fire use communities a single source for wildland fire, prescribed fire, fire use and incident management terminology commonly used by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) and its Working Teams. The NWCG has directed that…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, 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: glossary, terminology
NFSPUFF3 is a Lagrangian puff air-quality model that computes dispersion trajectories and surface concentrations of smoke plumes from prescribed fires, in the domain 30 - 50 N.Latitude and 102 - 125 W.Longitude. This includes all of Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Wyoming,…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: air quality, Lagrangian Dispersion Models, NFSPUFF, MM5 - Mesoscale Model generation 5
FMAPlus(copyright) Version 3 is a state-of-the-art suite of programs for use by resource managers to inventory and estimate surface and canopy fuel loading and to predict surface and canopy fire behavior and resulting fire effects. FMAPlus(copyright) Version 3 enables you to…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FMA - Fuel Management Analyst, canopy fuel load, CrownMass (TM)
Florida Division of Forestry's Internet Smoke Screening Tool (SST). This internet-based Smoke Screening Tool uses the latest computer technology and forecasted weather data to view the potential impacts from a smoke plume. Anyone can use the tool, but it is primarily designed to…
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Year: 2004
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: smoke modeling, SST - Smoke Screening Tool, burn prescription
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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Type: Tool
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
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): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FETM - Fire Effects Tradeoff Model, disturbance effects, long-term impacts, vegetation dynamics
Consume is a user-friendly computer program designed for resource managers with some working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications. The software predicts the amount of fuel consumption and emissions from the burning of logged units, piled debris, and natural fuels based on…
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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, fuel moisture, piled fuels, prescribed burning, woody fuel consumption, Consume 2.1, CONSUME
The Canadian Wildland Fire Information System (CWFIS) is a computer-based fire management information system that monitors fire danger conditions across Canada. Daily weather conditions are collected from across Canada and used to produce fire weather and fire behavior maps. In…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, fire danger, CWFIS - Canadian Wildland Fire Information System
CALPUFF is an advanced non-steady-state meteorological and air quality modeling system developed and distributed by Earth Tech, Inc. The model has been adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) in its Guideline on Air Quality Models as the preferred model…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, pollutant, CALPUFF
PFIRS will serve as an interface between air quality managers, land management agencies, and individuals that conduct prescribed burning in California. The web site will facilitate communications by providing access to a database containing information on burn planning, burn…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Logistics, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: burn plans, PFIRS - Prescribed Fire Incident Reporting System
Allows automated data entry into Incident Command System Form ICS-209, Incident Status Summary. Transmits summaries from reporting units to regional and national databases. Improves timely and complete reporting for use in strategic decision making. Generates automated ICS-209…
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Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aviation, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: ICS - Incident Command System, SIT report, 209