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OK-FIRE: A Weather-Based Decision Support System for Wildland Fire Managers in Oklahoma

While acknowledging the current usefulness of the fire management tools available on the Oklahoma Mesonet, the state's automated weather monitoring system, the USDA Forest Service (Problem Statement) describes a critical need to incorporate a forecast component into the fire…
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Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire danger, forecasting, Oklahoma, DSS - decision support system, OK-FIRE

Fuel Consumption and Smoke Emissions From Landscape-Scale Burns in Eastern Hardwoods

Prescribed burning in eastern hardwood forests is becoming increasingly important for promoting forest health and reducing fuels at the same time that concerns about the impacts of fire emissions on regional airsheds, human health, and wildlife are increasing. This proposal…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: hardwood forest, Ohio, fuel consumption, Kentucky, smoke management program

Wildfire Inputs to Regional Air Quality: Remote Spatial-Temporal Measures for Improved Inventory Assessments

Accurate information on regional background particulate matter concentrations is essential to burn permitting and airshed management. Such information is essential to efforts to comply with National Ambient Air Quality Standards. The standard approach (applied by Malm: # 01-1-5-…
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Year: 2010
Type: Project
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: air quality, remote sensing