Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity in part because of changing climate conditions and decades of fire suppression. Though fire is a natural ecological process in many forest ecosystems, extreme wildfires now pose a growing threat to...
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Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The vast Angara region, with an area of 13.8 million ha, is located in the southern taiga of central Siberia, Russia. This is one of the most disturbed regions by both fire and logging in northern Asia. We have developed surface and ground fuel-load...
Person: Kukavskaya, Shvetsov, Buryak, Tretyakov, Groisman
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
As wildfire risks have elevated due to climate change, the health risks that toxicants from fire smoke pose to wildland firefighters have been exacerbated. Recently, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has reclassified wildland...
Person: Hwang, Chong, Zhang, Agnew, Xu, Li, Xu
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Air quality in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) of the U.S has generally been good in recent years, but unhealthy events were observed due to wildfires in summer or wood burning in winter. The current air quality forecasting system, which uses chemical...
Person: Fan, Dhammapala, Harrington, Lamb, Lee
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The results of two previously published reports of the events and impacts of the Campfire wildfire smoke exposure that occurred in California in 2018 are amplified from the point of view of the potential toxic mechanism involved. The Campfire wildfire...
Person: Lasley
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
People have set fire to the savannas of West Africa for millennia, creating a pyrogeography. Fires render the landscape useful for many productive activities, but there is also a long history of efforts to regulate indigenous burning practices. Today,...
Person: Laris, Koné, Dembele, Rodrigue, Yang, Jacobs, Laris, Camara
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire radiative power (FRP) is a basic parameter for fire characterization since it represents the heat emission rate of fires. Moreover, its temporal integration (fire radiative energy, FRE) is used as a proxy for estimating biomass burning and...
Person: Filizzola, Falconieri, Lacava, Marchese, Masiello, Mazzeo, Pergola, Pietrapertosa, Serio, Tramutoli
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
At a fundamental level, smoke from wildland fire is of scientific concern because of its potential adverse effects on human health and social well-being. Although many impacts (e.g., evacuations, property loss) occur primarily in proximity to the...
Person: Peterson, McCaffrey, Patel-Weynand, McCaffrey, Rappold, Hano, Navarro, Phillips, Prestemon, Vaidyanathan, Abt, Reid, Sacks
Created Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires negatively affect the atmosphere and ecological environment. The rapid identification of smoke is helpful for early fire detection and positioning, which are significant for fire early warning, fire point tracing, and atmospheric environment...
Person: Sun, Jiang, Pan, Sheng, Hao
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Background: Given the increasing prevalence of wildfires worldwide, understanding the effects of wildfire air pollutants on human health, in specific, immunological pathways, is crucial. Exposure to air pollutants is associated with cardiorespiratory...
Person: Aguilera, Kaushik, Cauwenberghs, Heider, Ogulur, Yazici, Smith, Alkotob, Prunicki, Akdis, Nadeau
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES