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Agricultural and forestry smoke management are addressed in Section 11.7.
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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The SMP establishes a basic framework of procedures and requirements for managing smoke from fires managed for resource benefits and are typically developed by States/tribes with cooperation and participation by wildland owners/managers. The purpose of a SMP is to mitigate the…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords:
This Smoke Management Plan (SMP) is based on Section VI “Smoke Management Programs” of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (U.S.EPA) “Interim Air Quality Policy on Wildland and Prescribed Fires” (April 23, 1998). According to this policy, the purpose of a SMP is to…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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From the text ... 'Smoke from wild and prescribed fire has been an increasing concern in public health and safety over the last few decades. The Georgia Forestry Commission (GFC) encourages safe use of fire on firest lands in Georgia and provides a number of smoke management…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, fuel types, Georgia, smoke management, understory vegetation, wildfires, wind
From the Foreword ... 'This conference proceedings is also the best evidence of a grand, energetic conversation that the fires of 1988 launched. Among these many voices you will hear a tale much more complex than the saga of 1988 first revealed. It takes time to stand back far…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, Canada, carbon, charcoal, crown scorch, education, fire case histories, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, flame length, fuel management, fuel types, insects, landscape ecology, Mexico, mortality, national parks, nutrient cycling, overstory, public information, remote sensing, smoke management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
From the text ... 'Fire long has been an important subject of debate, stemming from the apparent contradiction between its controlled use in everyday life and its threats to life and property as uncontrolled wildfires. This paradox has been phrased very well as, 'Fire is a bad…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, Argentina, Europe, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, France, Komarek, E.V., Sr., Patagonia, pine forests, Portugal, rural communities, South America, suppression, wildfires
From the text ... 'Once again, advocates of prescribed burning are busy trying to educate both the public and bureaucrats. Lane Green, Tall Timbers' executive director, says a big challenge for land managers is explaining the short-term, long-term calculus of prescribed burning…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Outreach, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Beadel, H.L., brush, carbon, Colinus virginianus, conservation easements, education, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, forest management, game birds, hardwoods, hunting, land management, natural areas management, north Florida, particulates, pine forests, plantations, public information, Red Hills, seedlings, Smokey Bear program, Stoddard, H.L., Tall Timbers Research Station, understory vegetation, wildfires
The history and development of ecologically-based fire management policies in savanna protected areas during the 20th century are reviewed. Research on fire in savannas began in the 1950s, and from the 1980s onwards, managers of savanna protected areas experimented on large…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, CO2 - carbon dioxide, conservation, evolution, fire management, fire regimes, histories, Loxodonta africana, mammals, national parks, precipitation, range management, savannas, South Africa, wildfires, adaptive management, enrichment, elephants, heterogeneity
Germination of freshly collected seeds of three sympatric herbaceous species native to fire-prone environments in south-western Australia was significantly improved through the application of novel combinations of dry heat, gibberellic acid, smoke water and dry afterripening.…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: age classes, Australia, fire management, fire sensitive plants, germination, heat, humidity, moisture, Poaceae, seed dormancy, seed germination, seed moisture, seeds, smoke management, soil moisture, Stylidium, water, western Australia, afterripening, dormancy, germination, moisture content, seeds
Biomass burning is significant to emission estimates because: (1) it can be a major contributor of particulate matter and other pollutants; (2) it is one of the most poorly documented of all sources; (3) it can adversely affect human health; and (4) it has been identified as a…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest, Southwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Arizona, biomass, biomass burning, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, forest management, fuel loading, GIS, national parks, Oregon, ozone, particulates, pollution, private lands, radiation, range management, rangelands, remote sensing, smoke management, wildfires, biomass burning, remote sensing, area burned, Environmental Protection Agency, climate change, Arizona and Oregon
Area burned is one of four primary parameters necessary for estimating biomass burning emissions, and it is a parameter than remains illusive, particularly if we include all area burned. In this report, we compare the intensive 2002 ground-based data for the western United…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Arizona, biomass, biomass burning, boreal forests, Canada, carbon, Colorado, ENSO, fire case histories, fire management, fire size, forest management, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, private lands, range management, rangelands, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, wildfires, Wyoming
Contemporary human activities such as tropical deforestation. Land clearing for agriculture, pest control and grassland management lead to biomass burning, which in turn leads to land-cover changes. However, biomass burning emissions are not correctly measured and the methods to…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, agriculture, air quality, biomass, biomass burning, Brazil, carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, cerrado, deforestation, energy, evolution, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, gases, grasslands, moisture, pest control, radiation, rainforests, remote sensing, smoke effects, South America, statistical analysis, tropical forests, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, smoke aerosol emission coefficient, aerosol optical depth, biomass burning
Soil management causes changes in physical, chemical, and biological properties that consequently affect soil CO2 emission (FCO2). Here, we studied the soil carbon dynamics in areas with sugarcane production in southern Brazil under two different sugarcane management systems:…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Brazil, carbon, carbon dioxide, moisture, precipitation, slash and burn, soil management, soil moisture, soil temperature, South America, temperature, soil respiration, sugarcane management, geostatistic, soil properties
Smoke from fire is a local, regional and often international issue that is growing in complexity as competition for airshed resources increases. BlueSky is a smoke modeling framework designed to help address this problem by enabling simulations of the cumulative smoke impacts…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky, British Columbia, Canada, Cascades Range, competition, cropland fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fuel loading, fuel management, Idaho, land management, Montana, Oregon, remote sensing, smoke management, Washington, wildfires, BlueSky Modeling Framework, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team
Particulate mercury emissions in regional wildfire plumes observed at the Mount Bachelor Observatory
Atmospheric mercury is composed primarily of Hg0 (>95%), but Hg+2 and particle bound mercury are also found in some environments. The three forms of mercury were measured at the Mount Bachelor Observatory beginning in 2005. Using data gathered from 2005 to 2007, 15 periods…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, biomass burning, combustion, fire management, Hg - mercury, Oregon, particulates, smoke management, wildfires, Hg - mercury, wildfire, biomass burning
The effects of after-ripening (storage under warm, dry conditions) on seed germination was examined in six plant species from the arid zone of Western Australia with the aim of improving germination and germination rate for rehabilitation objectives. Study species (Acanthocarpus…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Anthocercis, Australia, deserts, Dioscorea, Eremophila, germination, humidity, moisture, seed dispersal, seed dormancy, seed germination, seed moisture, seeds, smoke management, temperature, Thryptomene, water, western Australia, wood, Zygophyllum, Australia, karrikinolide, seed dormancy
Carbon monoxide (CO), Ozone (O3) and Black Carbon (BC) aerosol mass concentrations in relation to planetary boundary layer (PBL) height measurements were analyzed from January-December, 2008 over tropical urban environment of Hyderabad, India. DMSP-OLS night-time satellite data…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Asia, carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, gases, India, ozone, pollution, remote sensing, season of fire, tropical regions, wildfires, wind, planetary boundary layer, black carbon, ozone and forest fires
This paper presents an operational approach to predicting fire growth for wildland fires in Canada. The approach addresses data assimilation to provide predictions in a timely and efficient manner. Fuels and elevation grids, forecast weather, and active fire locations are…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Alberta, Canada, cover, elevation, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire growth, fire management, fire size, forest management, fuel management, fuel types, ignition, national parks, Northwest Territories, remote sensing, Saskatchewan, temperature, wildfires, wind, wood, fire detection, fire-growth modelling, Wood Buffalo National Park
BACKGROUND: During the last week of June 2008, central and northern California experienced thousands of forest and brush fires, giving rise to a week of severe fire-related particulate air pollution throughout the region. California experienced
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, brush, brush fires, fire case histories, fire injuries (humans), fire management, health factors, northern California, particulates, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, toxicity, wildfires, air pollution, alveolar macrophage, lung inflammation, mouse, PM2.5
Biomass burning smoke constituents are worthy of concern due to its influence on climate and human health. The organic constituents and distributions of molecular tracers emitted from burning smoke of six natural vegetations including monsoon evergreen broad-leaf trees and…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Asia, biomass, biomass burning, cellulose, China, distribution, fire management, gases, hydrocarbons, lignin, organic matter, particulates, shrubs, smoke effects, smoke management, trees, vegetation surveys, biomass burning, broad-leaf trees, shrubs, natural vegetations, Molecular Tracers, China
Each spring, smoke particles from fires over the Yucatan Peninsula and south Mexico cross over the Gulf of Mexico into the United States (US) under the control of moist oceanic air flow from the southwestern branch of the subtropical (Bermuda) high. Smoke can be transported deep…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, biomass burning, Central America, convection, lightning, Mexico, moisture, ozone, particulates, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, water, Central American smoke, severe weather, aerosol-cloud interaction
The objective of this study was to improve the ability to model the air quality impacts of biomass burning on the surrounding environment. The focus is on prescribed burning emissions from a military reservation, Fort Benning in Georgia, and their impact on local and regional…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: adaptation, air quality, biomass, biomass burning, cavity nesting birds, competition, coniferous forests, fire dependent species, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, firebreaks, forest management, Georgia, hydrocarbons, military lands, nitrogen, ozone, Picoides borealis, Pinus palustris, pollution, smoke management, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), wildlife habitat management, air pollution, air quality modeling, adaptive grid, direct sensitivity
Biomass burning is a major and growing contributor to particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 mm (PM2.5). Such impacts (especially individual impacts from each burning source) are quantified using the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Model, a…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biomass, biomass burning, carbon, combustion, cropland fires, fire management, Georgia, human caused fires, organic matter, particulates, season of fire, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, wood
Recent IPCC projections suggest that Africa will be subject to particularly severe changes in atmospheric conditions. How the vegetation of Africa and particularly the grassland-savanna-forest complex will respond to these changes has rarely been investigated. Most studies on…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, biomass, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, deserts, distribution, disturbance, fertilization, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel moisture, grasslands, phenology, physiology, rainforests, range management, roots, savannas, statistical analysis, suppression, temperature, vegetation surveys, adaptive vegetation modelling, aDGVM - Adaptive Dynamic Global Vegetation Model, Africa, climate change, demographic model, DGVM - Dynamic Global Vegetation Model, process-based model, savanna, vegetation distribution
Shrubland communities dominated by manuka (Leptospermum scoparium J. Forst. and G. Forst.) and kanuka (Kunzea ericoides var. ericoides ((A. Rich) J. Thompson) are widespread throughout New Zealand. They frequently colonise disturbed land surfaces and are important for erosion…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: age classes, ash, carbon, carbon dioxide, disturbance, erosion, fire frequency, fire management, Kunzea, leaves, Leptospermum, Leptospermum scoparium, litter, mineral soils, New Zealand, nitrogen, nutrient cycling, pH, phosphorus, shrublands, shrubs, size classes, soil management, soil moisture, soil nutrients, soil organic matter, soils, burning, foliar N, P ratio, nitrification, nitrogen availability, phosphorus availability, volcanic ash