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In recent years, California experienced the largest, most destructive and deadliest wildfires in its history. Wildfires can cause fatalities and injuries, impair air quality for nearby and distant populations, and devastate the immediate area, leaving communities with often…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California
Keywords: public health, wildfire, fire mitigation, fire suppression, air quality, water quality, power shutoff, forest management
Biomass burning is a large source of uncontrolled air pollutants, including particulate matter (i.e., PM2.5), black carbon (BC), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and carbon monoxide (CO), which have significant effects on air quality, human health, and climate. Measurements of…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, black carbon, VOC - volatile organic compounds, CO - carbon monoxide, air quality, wildfires, smoke plumes
Studies of the emissions from wildland fires are important for understanding the role of these events in the production, transport, and fate of emitted gases and particulate matter, and, consequently, their impact on atmospheric and ecological processes, and on human health and…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: biomass burning, combustion, fuel selection criteria, wildland fire, wildfire, air quality, public health
A statement by the Wildland Fire Leadership Council and their partners relating to the benefits of prescribed fire programs.
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
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The primary purpose of the Smoke Management Program (SMP) is to mitigate the effects of smoke from forestry related prescribed burning on Smoke Sensitive Areas (SSAs). The primary impetus is the Clean Air Act of 1970 and subsequent amendments in 1977 and 1990. The Clean Air Act…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
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The purpose of the Washoe County Health District Air Quality Management Division (AQMD) Smoke Management Program (SMP) is to coordinate and facilitate the management of prescribed outdoor burning on lands in Washoe County, while minimizing smoke impacts and protecting…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southwest
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From the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Air Quaility Commission. Regulation number 9 on open burning, prescribed fire, and permitting. 5 CCR 1001-11
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
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Objective: The study examines how wildfire smoke exposure may impact health and safety in the agricultural workplace.
Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with agricultural employers and focus group discussions were held with farmworkers in three regions of…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: wildfires, agricultural health, farmworkers, safety communication, air quality, smoke exposure
Albuquerque/Bernalillo County, New Mexico, is currently in attainment of the 2015 National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for ozone (70 ppb), but its ozone design values have increased in recent years. Air quality and source apportionment modeling with the Comprehensive…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: air quality, NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards, New Mexico, wildfires, O3 - ozone, VOC - volatile organic compounds
Wildland fire emissions from both wildfires and prescribed fires represent a major component of overall U.S. emissions. Obtaining an accurate, time-resolved inventory of these emissions is important for many purposes, including to account for emissions of greenhouse gases and…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: CFIRE - Comprehensive Fire Information Reconciled Emissions, NEI - National Emissions Inventory, wildfire, remote sensing, satellite fire monitoring, satellite data, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5
Air quality impacts from wildfires have been dramatic in recent years, with millions of people exposed to elevated and sometimes hazardous fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations for extended periods. Fires emit particulate matter (PM) and gaseous compounds that can…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: air quality, human health, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, health effects, respiratory health, cardiovascular health, wildfire, AQI - Air Quality Index, remote sensing, emission factors
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the potential for co-occurring wildfires pose health threats to people around the globe. Along with the direct impacts of wildfires, exposure to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5)-pollution composed of small inhalable particles with diameters of 2…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: COVID-19, fine particulate matter, PM2.5, public health
Wildfires in humid tropical forests have become more common in recent years, increasing the rates of tree mortality in forests that have not co-evolved with fire. Estimating carbon emissions from these wildfires is complex. Current approaches rely on estimates of committed…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Amazon, Brazil, CO2 - carbon dioxide, vegetation growth, stem mortality, tree mortality
The 2019–20 Australian mega-bushfires, which raged particularly over New South Wales and Victoria, released large amounts of toxic haze and CO2. Here, we investigate whether the resulting CO2 enhancement can be directly detected by satellite observations, based on National…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, bushfire, megafires, satellite observations, CO2 - carbon dioxide
The Australian bushfires around the turn of the year 2020 generated an unprecedented perturbation of stratospheric composition, dynamical circulation and radiative balance. Here we show from satellite observations that the resulting planetary-scale blocking of solar radiation by…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, wildfires, vortex, atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric dynamics, natural hazards, bushfires, pyro-Cb, pyro-cumulonimbus, remote sensing
Nitrous acid (HONO) is a precursor of the hydroxyl radical in the atmosphere, which controls the degradation of greenhouse gases, contributes to photochemical smog and ozone production, and influences air quality. Although biomass burning is known to contribute substantially to…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: atmospheric science, climate science, HONO - nitrous acid, wildfires, plumes, NO2 - nitrogen dioxide, satellite monitoring, remote sensing, greenhouse gases, O3 - ozone
Grassland fire dynamics are subject to myriad climatic, biological, and anthropogenic drivers, thresholds, and feedbacks and therefore do not conform to assumptions of statistical stationarity. The presence of non-stationarity in time series data leads to ambiguous results that…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: climate change, grassland ecology, China, grasslands, fire management, fire-climate relationships, carbon emissions
Biomass burning (BB) emissions significantly deteriorate air quality in many regions worldwide, impact human health and perturbing Earth's radiation budget and climate. South America is one of largest contributors to BB emissions globally. After Amazonia, BB emissions from open…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Colombia, South America, biomass burning, atmospheric transport, air pollution, aerosol, health impacts, secondary organic aerosol, WRF-Chem
With global warming, the carbon pool in the degradation zone of permafrost around the Arctic will gradually be disturbed and may enter the atmosphere in the form of released methane gas, becoming an important factor of environmental change in permafrost areas. We selected the…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: China, CH4 - methane, permafrost degradation, climate change, remote sensing, microorganisms, soil, natural hazards
Carbon (C) emissions from wildfires are a key terrestrial–atmosphere interaction that influences global atmospheric composition and climate. Positive feedbacks between climate warming and boreal wildfires are predicted based on top-down controls of fire weather and climate, but…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire severity, fuel availability, C - carbon, carbon emissions, biogeochemistry, forest ecology, ecosystem ecology, carbon pools, SEM - structural equation modeling
This landowner smoke management guidebook was created through a collaboration between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), North Carolina State University, Southern Fire Exchange, Southern Regional Extension Forestry (SREF), and the University of Georgia Warnell School of…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: smoke management, air quality, public health, PM - particulate matter, smoke dispersion, fuel load, O3 - ozone, liability, mitigation
Although the characteristics of biomass burning events and the ambient ecosystem determine emitted smoke composition, the conditions that modulate the partitioning of black carbon (BC) and brown carbon (BrC) formation are not well understood, nor are the spatial or temporal…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: biomass burning, remote sensing, MISR - Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer, smoke plume, particle properties, aerosols, FIREX‐AQ - Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality, wildfire, smoke plume height, air quality
Prescribed fire is an important tool for maintaining the resilience of fire-dependent ecosystems. Despite broad recognition of its value, however, prescribed fire application in the western US has not been applied at the necessary levels. Past research has identified a range of…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: policy, collaboration, funding, incentives
Wildfires over the past 3 years have resulted in lengthy episodes of smoke inundation across major metropolitan areas in Australia, Brazil, and the United States. In 2020, air quality across the western United States reached and sustained extremely unhealthy to hazardous levels…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Australia, Brazil, PM - particulate matter, health impacts, air quality, human health
Wildfires are an important source of nitrous acid (HONO), a photolabile radical precursor, yet in situ measurements and quantification of primary HONO emissions from open wildfires have been scarce. We present airborne observations of HONO within wildfire plumes sampled during…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: HONO - nitrous acid, wildfires, N - nitrogen, fire plumes, hydrogen oxide