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If approved, we will deliver to the Joint Fire Science Project a needs analysis and feasibility plan for a national smoke management model including consideration of the current state of the science and emerging technologies (anticipated to be available in three to five years)…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Project
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: smoke dispersion, TASET - Technically Advanced Smoke Estimation Tools, needs analysis
Evaluating potential contributions of smoke dispersion, transport and deposition to regional haze from wildland and prescribed fire is difficult and costly, especially for Class I areas. Recent research indicates that various filter pack, denuder and passive monitoring systems…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): California, Southwest
Keywords: regional haze, smoke dispersion
This study is an integrated economic assessment of alternative fuels treatments. We examine ecological, economic and financial aspects of alternative fuels treatments paying particular attention to market and non-market costs and benefits, property damage, smoke, air quality,…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel treatments, ecological impacts, public perception
While considerable research has been done on coarse particulate emissions (PM0), there is less information on fine particulates and aerosols that contribute to regional haze. To meet new air quality monitoring requirements, there will be a need for improved information on fire…
Person:
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: air quality, aerosols, regional haze, visibility, IMPROVE, fine particulates
The DEASCO3 project will produce analytical results and a dynamic and accessible technical tool which enables Federal Land Managers (FLM) to participate more fully in ozone air quality planning efforts. We will turn complex technical analyses of a series of well-chosen historic…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, ozone
The objective of this project is to calculate the sensitivities of pollutant concentrations, predicted with air quality models, to meteorological inputs and apply these estimates to quantify meteorology-related uncertainty in fire simulations. The results of this work will…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, simulation, forecasting, meteorology, pollution, CMAQ - Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System, WRF - Weather Research and Forecasting
Reliable forecasting of regional weather and wind flow patterns is critical for effective fighting of wildland fires and the operational management of prescribed burns. Accurate prediction of future wind fields is essential for predicting fire behavior; smoke dispersion, and…
Person:
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FORFLUX, fire spread, forecasting, wind, MM5 - Mesoscale Model generation 5
We propose to develop training resources to facilitate application of the BlueSky modeling framework and its Rapid Access Information System (RAINS) to Smoke and Fire Management and Operations. BlueSkyRAINS, developed under the National Fire Plan in cooperation with the…
Person:
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: BlueSkyRAINS, fire management, RAINS - Rapid Access Information System
Wildland fires are a major contributor of particulate matter and other pollutants to the atmosphere. The new EPA Clean Air Act and the Regional Haze Rule require quantifying accurately the emissions of PM2.5 and other pollutants from fires and their impacts on regional haze and…
Person:
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, FARSITE - Fire Area Simulator, HYSPLIT-CheM forecast model, forecasting, PM - particulate matter, smoke dispersion
Project Objectives For at least 5 different major classes of fuels typically involved in residual smoldering combustion (RSC) and two different moisture content conditions dispersed over at least 10 different sites. Four of these will be in the western USA, 3 in the southeast, 2…
Person:
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel moisture, carbon release, PM - particulate matter, residual smoldering, fuel consumption
The combination of drought, fire suppression, and past harvesting has produced forests that are susceptible to high-severity wildfire in the Sierra Nevada. Given the current need of fuel treatment implementation, there are few quantitative studies that evaluate the effects of…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra Nevada, treatment effects, carbon budgets, mixed conifer forest
BlueSky, a National Fire Plan product, provides real-time predictions of surface smoke concentrations from prescribed fire, wildfire, and agricultural burn activities to aid land managers in burn/no-burn decisions. Currently operational in the Pacific Northwest, BlueSky is a…
Person:
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards, PM - particulate matter, smoke concentration, BlueSky Modeling Framework
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,…
Person:
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
Researchers from the University of California at Riverside and the USDA Forest Service (FS) are proposing a study to understand the processes that govern the formation of 'superfog', which is associated with low intensity, smoldering fires. This study is designed to complement a…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Project
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: low intensity burns, smoke plumes, smoldering fires, laboratory experiments, superfog
The proposal addresses JFSP AFP-2008-1, Task 6, Smoke and Emissions Models Evaluation. Wildland fire is a significant source of fine particulate matter (e.g. PM2.5, particles· with a diameter less than 2.5 Jlm) and volatile organic compounds that can contribute to ozone (03)…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Project
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, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, air pollution, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5 airborne concentrations, smoke transport, SEMIP - Smoke and Emissions Model Intercomparison Project
This project reviews the essential ingredients of a modeling system for projecting smoke consequences in a rapidly warming climate that is expected to change wildfire regimes significantly. We present relevant details of each component of the system, offer suggestions for the…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: ecosystem change, IPCC scenarios
We propose to hold a workshop to train approximately ten smoke modeling specialists who would be available thereafter to support wildland fire incidents on a regional scale, similar to the role the AirFire Team played for the 2011 fires in the Southwestern US. The workshop will…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Project
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, tools, workshops, smoke forecasting
Presenting state-of-science information and discussion of broadly defined air pollution and forest fire issues. Among others, the following topics will be discussed: effects of forest fires on air quality in the remote and urban-wildland interface forests; effects of forest…
Person:
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, air pollution, symposium
A comprehensive network for monitoring ambient ozone (O3) and particulate matter (PM) in the southern Sierra Nevada will be established as a joint effort between the USDA Forest Service, the National Park Service, the University of Houston and University of California in Merced…
Person:
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky Modeling Framework, Sierra Nevada, ozone, PM - particulate matter, O3 - ozone
Air quality regulations have the goal of reducing haze in national parks and wilderness areas to natural conditions, and require that fine particulate matter (PM2.5) be reduced below a threshold that adversely impacts health. The federally funded and managed IMPROVE and STN…
Person:
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter
This project will address the need for a collaborative architecture for scientific modeling that allows various scientific models to easily interact. By designing such a system to be modular as well, advantages derived from separating decision support user interfaces from…
Person:
Year: 2009
Type: Project
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: BlueSky Modeling Framework, collaboration, decision support, model coupling
Fire and fuel managers often need to know how much fuel will be consumed by a fire, and how much smoke the fire will produce. A variety of fuel loading maps and fuel consumption models have been developed to produce these and other estimates. Many factors influence the end…
Person:
Year: 2009
Type: Project
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 modeling, model comparison
The occurrence of wildland fires results in substantial emissions of air pollutants. These emissions have resulted in increased conflicts with the need to attain air quality standards, especially for particulate matter (PM) and visibility, as mandated by the Clean Air Act. To…
Person:
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, Clean Air Act, particulate matter (PM) emissions
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…
Person:
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 BlueSky smoke modeling framework, developed with support from the National Fire Plan, provides real-time predictions of surface smoke concentrations from prescribed fires, wildfires, and agricultural burns. The predictions are currently being used by air quality regulators…
Person:
Year: 2009
Type: Project
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, BlueSky Modeling Framework, smoke prediction systems