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The Missoula Fire Lab Emission Inventory (MFLEI) is a retrospective, daily wildfire emission inventory for the contiguous United States with a spatial resolution of 250 meters (m). MFLEI was produced using multiple datasets of fire activity and burned area, a newly developed…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: C - carbon, biomass burning, smoke dispersion, fire activity, burned area
Airborne measurements of 13 trace gases from seven forest fires in North America are used to determine their average emission factors. The emission factors are then used to estimate the contributions of biomass…
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest, International
Keywords: Adenostoma, air quality, Artemisia arbuscula, Betula, biomass, brush, Canada, carbon, carbon dioxide, chaparral, combustion, coniferous forests, fuel types, gases, Ontario, Oregon, particulates, Picea mariana, pine, Pinus banksiana, pollution, Populus, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Rhus, sampling, statistical analysis, Tsuga, wildfires, woody plants
From Summary and Conclusions: '1. There are several different types of forest fires, each with distinct sets of emission characteristics. Emission factors for combustion products vary widely with fire behavior and fuel conditions. Whenever…
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Southern, Southwest, International
Keywords: air quality, Arizona, backing fires, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, fire management, fire protection, forest management, fuel management, gases, headfires, hydrocarbons, logging, CH4 - methane, New Mexico, organic matter, particulates, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus taeda, residence time, smoke management, water, wildfires
Extreme enhancements in the total columns of carbon monoxide (CO), peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN), ethylene (C2H4), methanol (CH3OH), and formic acid (HCOOH) were observed over the Canadian high Arctic during the period of 17-22 August 2017 by a ground-based Fourier transform…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: NWT - Northwest Territories, British Columbia, Canada, plume transport
Tropical peatlands store vast volumes of carbon belowground. Human land uses have led to their degradation, reducing their carbon storage services. Clearing and drainage make peatlands susceptible to surface and belowground fires. Satellites do not readily detect smouldering…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): International
Keywords: Indonesia, climate change, greenhouse gases, haze, IPCC, smouldering combustion, peat fires, fire spread
Emissions of trace gases and particles £ 2.5 microns aerodynamic diameter (PM2.5) from fires during 2008-2011 on the North Carolina coastal plain were collected and analyzed. Carbon mass balance techniques were used to quantify emission factors…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: biomass burning, fuel loading, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, organic soils, peat, North Carolina, fire management, fuel management, soil management, coastal plain, biomass burning, organic soil, North Carolina, PM2.5, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, levoglucosan
We used an airborne Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (AFTIR), coupled to a flow-through, air-sampling cell, on a King Air B-90 to make in situ trace gas measurements in isolated smoke plumes from four, large, boreal zone wildfires in interior Alaska during June 1997.…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: wildfire, AFTIR - airborne Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, trace gas emissions, boreal forest fires, smoke plumes, smoke monitoring
Low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plastic is used to keep piled debris from silvicultural activities-activities associated with development and care of forests-dry to enable efficient disposal by burning. The effects of inclusion of LDPE in this manner on smoke emissions are not…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, pile burn, polyethylene, plastic
We used an airborne Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (AFTIR), coupled to a flow-through, air-sampling cell, on a King Air B-90 to make in situ trace gas measurements in isolated smoke plumes from four, large, boreal zone wildfires in interior Alaska during June 1997.…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: climate change, AFTIR - airborne Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, trace gas emissions, boreal forest fires, smoke plumes, airborne measurements, smoke monitoring
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: big sagebrush, smoke emissions, western juniper, emission factors
Modeling capabilities of the FARSITE fire area simulator have been expanded to include post-frontal combustion and smoke production. FARSITE previously simulated only fire growth, with the focus on the fire perimeter. The BURNUP model was adapted to account for smoldering and…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, combustion, computer programs, dead fuels, fire growth, fire management, fire size, flammability, fuel moisture, heavy fuels, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, low intensity burns, moisture, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis
A complex approach is considered to the estimation of emissions of carbon gases formed during wildfires in the middle taiga subzone in the Yenisei region of Siberia. Based on the large-scale Siberian wildfires in 2012, the relative contribution of emissions to the values of…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forests, Siberia, wildfires, carbon gasses, plumes
Airborne measurements have been made in the smokes from large fires of standing coniferous trees and logging debris, standing chaparral, fallen jack pine, and wheat stubble. Panicle emission factors, particle size distributions, optical…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California, Northern Rockies, Northwest, International
Keywords: Canada, PM - particulate matter, biomass burning, airborne measurements
The project addressed the following tasks: 1) Review and summarize the technical details of major FEIS. 2) Quantify the uncertainty of the components of burned area, fuel loading, and emission factors of each FEIS. 3) Quantify the uncertainty of…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): California, Northwest, Southwest
Keywords: FEIS - Fire Effects Information System, fuel loading, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, O3 - ozone, regional haze, NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: smoke measurements, emission factors, LODI test fires
The Tropical Forest and Fire Emissions Experiment (TROFFEE) used laboratory measurements followed by airborne and ground based field campaigns during the 2004 Amazon dry season to quantify the emissions from pristine tropical forest and several plantations as well as the…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: deforestation, tropical ecosystems, Brazil, OVOC - oxygenated volatile organic compounds, NMOC - nonmethane organic compounds, TROFFEE - Tropical Forest and Fire Emissions Experiment
This study investigated the emission of PM10 and PM2.5 (particulates with diameters of less than 10 µm and 2.5 µm, respectively) and the chemical composition of PM2.5 from laboratory combustion of five Australian vegetation types (three grasslands, a woodland and a forest). A…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: PM2.5, Australia, bushfire, vegetation fire, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, water-soluble metals
Wildfires produce a significant release of gases and particles affecting climate and air quality. In the Mediterranean region, shrublands significantly contribute to burned areas and may show specific emission profiles. Our objective was to depict and quantify the primary-…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, experimental fires, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, hydrocarbons, particulates, Spain, Europe, fire management, forest management, Mediterranean habitats, shrublands, biomass burning, Mediterranean shrubland, water soluble ions, trace elements, organic compounds, VOCs
Data on emission of atmospheric pollutants at local scale is essential for accurately modelling forest fire emission at regional scale. In this study, we quantified emission factor (EF) of gaseous pollutants (CO, CO2, NOx, hydrocarbons, organic…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: China, environmental pollution, forest fire, hydrocarbons, PM2.5, water soluble inorganic ions, PM - particulate matter
Understanding the emissions of mercury (Hg) from wildfires is important for quantifying the global atmospheric Hg sources. Emissions of Hg from soils resulting from wildfires in the Western United States was estimated for the 2000 to 2013 period, and the potential emission of Hg…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: literature review, Hg - mercury, soil temperature, soil heating, fire severity, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, fire intensity, wildfires, fire management, soil management
This paper is directed to those interested in techniques for measuring emission rates and emission factors for forest fires and other open combustion sources. A source-sampling procedure that involved the use of a vertical array of lightweight,…
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Southwest
Keywords: air quality, Arizona, carbon, combustion, dead fuels, field experimental fires, fire equipment, fire management, gases, headfires, humidity, low intensity burns, nitrogen, Ohio, particulates, rate of spread, sampling, smoke behavior, smoke management, temperature, wind
Thermogravimetry (TG) was applied to forest fuel as a microcombustion technique to study emissions by evolved gas analysis (EGA). Emission rates for carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), and total hydrocarbons (THC) for both combustion and pyrolysis processes were…
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: slash pine, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, emission rate, thermogravimetry, evolved gas analysis, air quality, carbon, chemical compounds, combustion, fuel types, gases, heat, hydrocarbons, laboratory fires, microclimate, needles, oxygen, Pinus elliottii, statistical analysis, volatilization, wood properties
Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) was combusted at different charge sizes, fuel moisture, and chlorine content to determine the effect on emissions of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDDs/Fs) as well as copollutants CO, PM, and total hydrocarbons…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Fuels
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: biomass burning, combustion, fuel moisture, air quality, carbon, chemistry, hydrocarbons, sampling, toxicity, loblolly pine, Pinus taeda, North Carolina, fire management, fuel management
The wildland fire emissions estimation system is a geographic information system to calculate smoke released from forest fires. It is a method for producing coherent, consistent, spatially and temporally resolved GIS based emission estimates for wildfire and prescribed burning.…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, cover, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, GIS, health factors, histories, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) was combusted at different charge sizes, fuel moisture, and chlorine content to determine the effect on emissions of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDDs/Fs) as well as copollutants CO, PM, and total hydrocarbons…
Person:
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: biomass burning, combustion, fuel moisture, air quality, C - carbon, chemistry, hydrocarbons, sampling, toxicity, loblolly pine, Pinus taeda, North Carolina, fire management, fuel management, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, PCDD - polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, PCDF - polychlorinated dibenzofurans, PM - particulate matter