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Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire management, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, smoke management

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Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, Appalachian Mountains, bibliographies, Calamagrostis cainii, community ecology, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire regimes, fungi, genetics, Great Smoky Mountains, introduced species, land management, multiple resource management, national parks, natural areas management, natural resource legislation, North Carolina, plant communities, plant growth, pollution, recreation, species diversity (plants), succession, Sus scrofa, Tennessee, threatened and endangered species (plants), vegetation surveys, vulnerable species or communities, wilderness areas, wildfires, wildlife food habits, wildlife food plants

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Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, Florida, fuel moisture, hydrocarbons, laboratory fires, organic soils, particulates, peat fires, pollution, Quebec, soil temperature, soils, south Florida

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Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: cover, smoke management

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Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, smoke management

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Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, everglades, Florida, particulates, south Florida, wetlands, wildfires

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Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, gases, particulates, pollution, wood

From the text... 'An ideal forest fire detection system would detect fires the instant they start, day or night, under any condition of visibility. Additionally, it could distinguish potentially dangerous fires from those that would not concern fire suppression forces. Although…
Person:
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: conservation, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, remote sensing, smoke behavior, wildfires

A field investigation was initiated in the summer 1978 to quantify the influence of meteorological factors, ignition method, and fuel conditions on the behaviour of smoke plumes from open field burning. Measurements of air quality and meteorological conditions were performed…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, arthropods, backfires, field experimental fires, fire management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, grasslands, headfires, humidity, ignition, insects, Oregon, particulates, photography, rate of spread, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, wind

This report outlines the development (section 2) and testing (section 3) of a simple mathematical dispersion model, — based on Gaussin plume models for air polution, — for predicting smoke concentration and visibility reduction downwind from prescribed burns in forests. The data…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, distribution, flame length, forest management, fuel loading, pollution, rate of spread, scorch, smoke management, statistical analysis, western Australia, wind

Emissions from prescribed fire vary geographically. In the Northeast, for example, prescribed fires are rare. In other sections, e.g., the southern Coastal Plain, meteorological conditions, terrain, and light fuel loads minimize atmospheric concentrations of emissions. The…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Eastern, Great Basin, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: air quality, burning permits, coastal plain, community ecology, disturbance, dust, education, fire adaptations, fire dependent species, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, heavy fuels, light, mountainous terrain, natural resource legislation, particulates, pollution, public information, smoke management, soot, volcanoes, wildfires

Man began an intensive program to keep fire out of the woods about 70 years ago. Periodic ground fires once common in western pine forests were reduced, and a stand type that had been open, thrifty, and fairly resistant to wildfires lost those characteristics. The current status…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: arthropods, Choristoneura occidentalis, Coloradia pandora , crown scorch, Dendroctonus, Dendroctonus brevicomis, Dendroctonus ponderosae, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire protection, fire resistant plants, forest management, fuel loading, ground fires, habits and behavior, insect ecology, insects, integrated pest management, Ips pini, old growth forests, Oregon, Orgyia pseudotsugata, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, Pseudotsuga menziesii, shrubs, slash, smoke effects, soil organisms, trees, Washington, wildfires, wood

In Australia the long-term ecolgical consequences of forest practices which lead to nutrient depletion may be very serious. In the absence of fertilization, cumulative nutrient depletion associated with intensive management (involving clear-felling, slash burning, and short…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: ash, Australia, bibliographies, biomass, clearcutting, combustion, decay, disturbance, duff, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, eucalyptus, evapotranspiration, fertilization, fine fuels, forest management, fuel accumulation, humus, ignition, leaching, litter, logging, mineral soils, nitrogen fixation, nutrient cycling, nutrients, organic matter, particulates, precipitation, regeneration, sclerophyll forests, seedlings, site treatments, slash, slash and burn, soil erosion, soils, Tasmania, temperature, understory vegetation, wildfires

Generalizations of the 'opacity method' of analyzing visible smoke-plume diffusion are presented. The horizontal dispersion length, sigma-y, is derived from the outline of a plume having an arbitrary vertical concentration distribution. The vertical dispersion length, sigma-z,…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, distribution, photography, pollution, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, Tennessee, weather observations, wind

A note on the features and control of the ground (soil fires that occur at intervals of 5-8 yr in the Soviet Far East. The winter ground fires occur when the snow cover is incomplete, after a warm dry autumn and when the water table is low. These fires often do not affect the…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Asia, cover, decomposition, education, fire control, fire regimes, fire suppression, firebreaks, ground fires, rate of spread, season of fire, soil moisture, soils, Soviet Union, temperature, water

Mass fires are being investigated through a series of large-scale test fires. Preliminary results indicate: (a) air flow patterns that create eddies can result in fire vortices when fires is present; (b) the lower part of the convection column consists of a series of small…
Person:
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, chaparral, combustion, convection, field experimental fires, fire size, fire suppression, fire whirls, fuel moisture, gases, heat effects, heavy fuels, humidity, ignition, Juniperus, laboratory fires, Pinus edulis, statistical analysis, temperature, topography, vortices, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind

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Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: Agrostis tenuis, air quality, arthropods, burning intervals, Dactylis glomerata, Festuca arundinacea, Festuca rubra, grasses, insects, Lolium perenne, natural resource legislation, Oregon, Paspalum dilatatum, perennial plants, plant diseases, Poa pratensis, public information, season of fire, seed production, smoke management, weed control

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Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire intensity, fuel types, Ilex glabra, north Florida, particulates, pine forests, Serenoa repens, smoke management, south Georgia

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Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, ash, chemistry, particulates

A cinematographic film of a tornado which formed over a severe bushfire in 1962 in Victoria has been analysed. Notable findings are that a flame rose in the core to a height of 260 feet, that the core velocities were up to 205 m.p.h. vertically, at least 20-30 m.p.h.…
Person:
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: flame height, flame length, wind, Australia, fire whirls, blowup fires, tornadoes, blowup, climatology, fire management, fire weather, gases, ignition, overstory, photography, remote sensing, topography, trees, Victoria, weather observations, wildfires

The control of large fires is a problem of continuing concern to the Forest Service, other public agencies, and private owners of forest and rangeland. A few large fires each year account for all but a small share of the Nation's forest fire losses. In time of war, this problem…
Person:
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: conflagration, convection column, fire spread, fire storm, fuel, mass fire, fuel bed, fatalities, air flow

Particulate-matter emission factors and Byram's fire-intensity values were computed for experimental backfires in pine-litter and palmetto-gallberry fuels in the Southeast. The combined data for both fuel types were in reasonable agreement with the theoretical prediction that…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire intensity, PM - particulate matter, emission factors, emission factor models, backfire, fuel moisture, fuel types, Ilex glabra, particulates, Serenoa repens, smoke management

In compartment fires a situation often develops in which a layer of oxygen-depleted gases builds up in the upper part of the enclosure. The downward reach of such a layer can be sufficient to make its lower boundary interact with the fire plume. In that case, while the…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: burning rate, fire plumes, flame characteristics

To study mechanisms affecting particulate matter production from forest fires, a combustion chamber system was developed. This closed system was used primarily for producing cylindrical laminar diffusion flames by burning alpha-pinene under controlled conditions. The independent…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: laboratory fires, PM - particulate matter, laminar flame

This paper reports relationships between emission factor (EFp) and fire intensity for burns in the palmetto-gallberry fuel type where fireline intensities ranged up to 1,750 kw m^-1 . A model that is presented has application in determining the optimal prescription for…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: carbon balance, fire intensity, emission factor, fuel type, PM - particulate matter, palmetto-gallberry fuel complex