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Emissions from a stand replacement prescribed burn were sampled using an unmanned aircraft system (UAS, or 'drone') in Fishlake National Forest, Utah, U.S.A. Sixteen flights over three days in June 2019 provided emission factors for a broad…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: Utah, wildfires, measurements, drones, UAS - Unmanned Aircraft System, Fishlake National Forest, air pollution
Smoke plumes associated with wildland fires are difficult to characterize due to the non-linear behavior of the variables involved. Plume chemistry is largely modeled using emission factors to represent the relative trace gas and aerosol species…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): California, Southern
Keywords: air quality, North Carolina, low intensity burns, smoke dispersion, smoldering fires
Prescribed fire is a tool used to manage vegetation in southern California. The nature and quantity of gaseous and particulate emissions have not been described for California chaparral. A study examining carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), and particulate matter…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: chaparral, Adenostoma fasciculatum, Ceanothus crassifolius, Quercus dumosa, Arctostaphylos glandulosa, air quality, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, experimental fire, fire management, firing techniques, gases, ignition, live fuels, moisture, particulates, Quercus dumosa, range management, scrub, season of fire, shrubs
Smouldering peat fires, the largest fires on Earth in terms of fuel consumption, are reported in six continents and are responsible for regional haze episodes. Haze is the large-scale accumulation of smoke at low altitudes in the atmosphere. It decreases air quality, disrupts…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: smoldering, peat fires, emission factor, MCE - modified combustion efficiency, wildfires, haze, air quality, PM - particulate matter, literature review
Although biomass burning of savannas is recognised as a major global source of greenhouse gas emissions, quantification remains problematic with resulting regional emissions estimates often differing markedly. Here we undertake a critical assessment of Australia's National…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire mapping, Australia, emission factors, fuel loads, burning efficiency, Arnhem Land, National Greenhouse Gas Inventory, Northern Territory of Australia
Satellite estimates of burned area, associated carbon monoxide (CO) emission estimates, and CO column retrievals do not agree on the peak fire month in Africa, evident in both Northern and Southern Africa though distinct in the burning seasonality. Here we analyze this long‐…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, combustion efficiency, atmospheric inversion, CO - carbon monoxide, Bayesian analysis, MOPITT - Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere instrument, MOPITT CO, GFED - Global Fire Emissions Database, burned area
This paper describes emission factors for several gaseous and particulate matter emissions from burning chaparral fuels found primarily in the southwestern United States. Measurements of the smoke were taken for flaming and smoldering combustion…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: chaparral, prescribed fire emissions, air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, gases, hydrocarbons, particulates, pollution, fire management, smoke management
Emissions from prescribed burns of a managed longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) forest and grass/savanna fields in western Florida were measured by simultaneous aerial and ground sampling. Results were compared with measurements made in an open burn laboratory test facility using…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Pinus palustris, longleaf pine, Florida, grasslands, pine savanna, black carbon, PAH - polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, brown carbon, PCDD - polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, VOC - volatile organic compounds, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, organic carbon
Aerosol emissions from prescribed fires can affect air quality on regional scales. Accurate representation of these emissions in models requires information regarding the amount and composition of the emitted species. We measured a suite of submicron particulate matter species…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Southern
Keywords: air quality, South Carolina, black carbon, biomass burning, laboratory experiments, organic aerosols
Emissions of polychlorinated dibenzodioxin and polychlorinated dibenzofuran (PCDD/F) from simulated grassland and forest fires were quantitatively sampled to derive emission factors in support of PCDD/F inventory development. Grasses from…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: air quality, ash, biomass, carbon, chemical compounds, combustion, coniferous forests, Cyrilla racemiflora, field experimental fires, fire management, Florida, forest management, grasses, grasslands, Ilex glabra, Kentucky, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon, Piedmont, Pinus contorta, Pinus monticola, Pinus strobus, Pinus taeda, pollution, range management, sampling, shrublands, shrubs, Tsuga heterophylla, volatilization, PCDD - polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, PCDF, biomass, pollution, forest, grass
The rate of deforestation in Brazil increased by 29% between 2015 and 2016, resulting in an increase of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) of 9%. Deforestation fires in the Amazonia are the main source of GHG in Brazil. In this work, amounts of CO2, CO, main hydrocarbon gases and…
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Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Brazil, Amazon, emission factors, PM2.5, CO2 - carbon dioxide, forest fires, greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation
Smouldering peat fires are responsible for regional haze episodes and cause environmental, social and health crises. Owing to the unique burning characteristics of smouldering peat, identifying and detecting this kind of fire remains a challenge. This work explores smouldering…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: haze, detection, mitigation, peatland, smoldering, wildfires
Wildfire events are increasing globally which may be partly associated with climate change, resulting in significant adverse impacts on local, regional air quality and global climate. In September 2020, a small wildfire (burned area: 36.3 ha) event occurred in Souesmes (Loir-et-…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfire, air quality, emission factor, EI - Emission Inventory, VOLTAIRE supersite, France, greenhouse gas
The increasing frequency and severity of wildfires poses human health risks, especially for those within burnt regions. The potential health effects of fire ash on farmworkers in orchards via inhalation exposure after fire is rarely studied. After the 2017 Thomas Fire, in…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): California
Keywords: arsenic, Chromium(VI), particle emission factor, risk assessment, trace elements, wildfires, Thomas Fire, ash, health risk
The burning of tropical rainforests in the Southeast Asia emits considerable particulate matter (PM), which has significant effects on air quality and human health. Lacking of reliable local EFPM for rainforest burning in the Southeast Asia is one of the most important causes…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Asia, emission factors, rainforests, PM - particulate matter, EI - Emission Inventory, air quality, human health
Wildfires emit significant amounts of pollutants that degrade air quality. Plumes from three wildfires in the western U.S. were measured from aircraft during the Studies of Emissions and Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys (SEAC4RS) and the…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, emission factors, PM - particulate matter, aerosols, NEI - National Emissions Inventory, organic aerosols, air pollution
Vegetation commonly managed by prescribed burning was collected from five southeastern and southwestern US military bases and burned under controlled conditions at the US Forest Service Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, Montana. The smoke emissions were measured with a large…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern, Southwest
Keywords: trace gas emissions, biomass burning, laboratory experiments
We analyzed the dynamics of pollutant emissions from wildfires in mainland China from 2001 to 2019 using MODIS fire products combined with the measurements of emission factors of different vegetation types. The biomass distribution in Mainland…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: China, wildfires, emission factors, pollutant, Modis Imagery, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
Smoke dispersion modelling based on the Fire Emission Production Simulator and the Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (FEPS-HYSPLIT) model was applied to prescribed burns in the Lake Tahoe Basin (LTB) during fall 2011. This, in conjunction with measurements…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: combustion, biomass burning, smoke effects, air quality, pollution, Nevada, fire management, forest management, smoke management, smoke forecast, biomass burning, emission model, PM2.5 emission factor, WRF, IMPROVE network
Landscape fires, often referred to as biomass burning (BB), emit substantial amounts of (greenhouse) gases and aerosols into the atmosphere each year. Frequently burning savannas, mostly in Africa, Australia, and South America are responsible for over 60 % of total BB carbon…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: greenhouse gas emissions, biomass burning, Brazil, cerrado, aerosols, season of burn
From the text...'Whether you are concerned with particulate matter, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, or hydrocarbons, all smoke components from wildland fires are generated from the incomplete combustion of fuel. The amount of smoke produced can be derived from knowledge of area…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, Artemisia, bibliographies, broadcast burning, carbon, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, Ceanothus, chaparral, combustion, computer programs, coniferous forests, conifers, fuel loading, fuel models, hardwoods, health factors, heat, heat effects, hydrocarbons, Juniperus, logging, national parks, particulates, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, rural communities, slash, smoke behavior, smoke management, Tsuga, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Emissions of trace gases and C5-C10 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from Mediterranean wildfires occurring in Portugal in summer 2010 were studied. Fire smoke was collected in Tedlar bags and analysed for CO, CO2, total hydrocarbons (THC) and VOCs. The CO, CO2 and THC …
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: combustion, wildfires, air quality, carbon dioxide, gases, hydrocarbons, Portugal, Europe, fire management, smoke management, Mediterranean habitats, wildfires, Mediterranean forest, emission factors, trace gases, VOCs
Biomass burning (BB) is a major source of black carbon (BC), but comparing BC content of different smoke-impacted air masses may be uncertain if different measurement techniques are used to quantify the BC, or if non-BC fractions influence a given measurement. To investigate…
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Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: biomass burning, black carbon, aerosols, emission factors
The emissions from simulated sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) field burns were sampled and analyzed for polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDDs and PCDFs). Sugarcane leaves from Hawaii and Florida were burned in a manner simulating the natural physical…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Hawaii, Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, ash, biomass, carbon, chemical compounds, combustion, experimental fires, fire management, firing techniques, Florida, fuel loading, hydrogen, leaves, moisture, nitrogen, particulates, Saccharum, Saccharum officinarum, sampling, smoke management, statistical analysis, S - sulfur
Past studies suggest that certain properties of fire emitted particulate matter (PM) relate to the combustion phase (flaming, smoldering) of biomass burning, but to date there has been little consideration of such properties for use as combustion phase indicators. We studied the…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: thermochemical property, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, combustion phase, MESTA - multi-element scanning thermal analysis, emission factor, Differential Diffusion, Florida, Georgia