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The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has a requirement for assistance to the JFSP Governing Board and Program Manager in a comprehensive data analysis and literature review as described in the recently developed JFSP Smoke Science Plan (SSP). Assistance shall include the…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, air quality, literature review

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

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

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

Smoke emissions and dispersion from low intensity and smoldering fires are not well characterized by existing models. The 2008 fires in the organic soils of North Carolina and the extensive fires in California adjacent to heavily populated urban centers have demonstrated the…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): California, Southern
Keywords: North Carolina, low intensity burns, smoke dispersion, smoldering

Smoke emissions from wild and prescribed fires can be a significant contributor to regional haze and to urban and regional air pollution. Fires directly emit particulate matter; they also emit gases that react in the atmosphere to form secondary organic aerosol (SOA). There is…
Person:
Year: 2013
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: air quality, air pollution, regional haze, particulate matter (PM) emissions, organic aerosols