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An analysis of fire characteristics in the boreal forests of Siberia (50-75° N, 60-140° E) was performed for the period 2002-2022. We found a positive trend in the proportion of high-intensity fires in dominant forest stands of Siberia based on long-...

Person: Ponomarev, Zabrodin, Shvetsov, Ponomareva
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Recently, extreme wildfires have damaged important ecosystems worldwide and have affected urban areas miles away due to long-range transport of smoke plumes. We performed a comprehensive analysis to clarify how smoke plumes from Pantanal and Amazon...

Person: Souto-Oliveira, Marques, Nogueira, Lopes, Medeiros, Medeiros, Moreira, Dias, Landulfo, Andrade
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Background: Wildfires are a growing threat, especially in Mediterranean climate areas during periods of drought. The wildfire research community continues to investigate propagation mechanisms considering thermal transfer and fluid mechanics and...

Person: Jamaladdeen, Coudour, Dédaldéchamp, Lemée, Thibault, Garo, Wang
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Ground-level ozone (O3) was unusually high in northern Colorado in the summer of 2021 with maximum daily 8-hr average (MDA8) concentrations 6 to 8 parts-per-billion by volume (ppbv) higher than in 2019, 2020, or 2022. One or more of the monitors on the...

Person: Langford, Senff, Alvarez II, Aikin, Ahmadov, Angevine, Baidar, Brewer, Brown, James, McCarty, Sandberg, Zucker
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Smoke from wildfires presents one of the greatest threats to air quality, public health, and ecosystems in the United States, especially in the West. Here we quantify the efficacy of prescribed burning as an intervention for mitigating smoke exposure...

Person: Kelp, Carroll, Liu, Yantosca, Hockenberry, Mickley
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Tropical peatlands are the sites of Earth’s largest fire events, with outsized contributions to greenhouse gases, toxic smoke, and haze rich with particulate matter. The human health risks from wildfire smoke are well known, but its effects on wildlife...

Person: Erb, Barrow, Hofner, Lecorchick, Setia, Vogel
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Forest fires threaten to biodiversity, ecosystem productivity, multiple ecosystem services, and it influences the emissions of large amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. This scientific study has been conducted at Ayodhya hill range of dry...

Person: Saha, Bera, Shit, Bhattacharjee, Sengupta, Sengupta, Adhikary
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Background: Climate change has been deemed the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. One consequence of climate change is the increasing frequency and severity of forest fires. Smoke from wildfires has the ability to negatively impact air...

Person: Douglas-Vail, Jiang, Erdelyi, Brubacher, Abu-Laban
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Ambient wildfire smoke in the American West has worsened considerably in recent decades, while the number of individuals recreating outdoors has simultaneously surged. Wildfire smoke poses a serious risk to human health, especially during long periods...

Person: Clark, Killion, Williamson, Hillis
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The AirNow Fire and Smoke Map provides information that you can use to help protect your health from wildfire smoke. Use this map to see:

  • Current particle pollution air quality information for your location;
  • Fire locations and...
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Type: Website
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