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In this work, a methodology based on the macro-tracer approach was improved to obtain a more reliable estimate of the wood burning impact on PM10 and OC concentrations.Indeed, literature emission factors were weighed by the wood consumption data…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: human caused fires, air quality, C - carbon, particulates, Italy, Europe, smoke management, levoglucosan, wood burning, emission factors, source apportionment
Biomass samples representing Amazon forest native species were burned in laboratory experiments. These species were obtained in the deforestation arc, near the town of Alta Floresta, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Moisture content values obtained for twigs and pieces of sticks…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, experimental fires, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, deforestation, hydrocarbons, moisture, particulates, Amazon, Brazil, South America, fire management, forest management, smoke management, biomass burning, emission factors, Amazon forest, experimental fires, NOx, hydrocarbons
In summer 2009, emissions of trace gases and aerosols from several wildfires occurring in Portugal were sampled. A portable high-volume sampler was used to collect sequentially, on quartz fibre filters, coarse (PM2.5-10) and fine (PM2.5) smoke particles. Tedlar air sampling bags…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, aerosols, air quality, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, gases, hydrocarbons, organic matter, particulates, Portugal, Europe, fire management, wildfires, trace gases, carbonaceous particles, emission factors, water-soluble ions, metals
Gas and particulate fractions were measured simultaneously from a wildfire in Penedono, central Portugal, which occurred in summer 2009. The total volatile hydrocarbons (THC) and carbon oxides (CO2 and CO) collected in Tedlar bags were measured using automatic analysers with…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire frequency, incendiary fires, smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, climate change, gases, hydrocarbons, particulates, Portugal, Europe, fire management, smoke management, wildfire, organic compounds, PM2.5, PM2.5-10, emission factors
Aerostat-lofted instrument and sampling method for determination of emissions from open area sources
An aerostat-borne instrument and sampling method was developed to characterize air samples from area sources, such as emissions from open burning. The 10 kg battery-powered instrument system, termed “the Flyer”, is lofted with a helium-filled aerostat of 4 m nominal diameter and…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air samples, open burning, emission factors, detonation, CO2 - carbon dioxide, SVOC - semi-volatile organic compounds, VOC - volatile organic compounds, PM - particulate matter
On May 2009, both the gas and particulate fractions of smoke from a wildfire in Sever do Vouga, central Portugal, were sampled. Total hydrocarbons and carbon oxides (CO2 and CO) were measured using automatic analysers with flame ionisation and non-dispersive infrared detectors,…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, gases, hydrocarbons, organic matter, particulates, Portugal, Europe, fire management, forest management, smoke management, wildfire, emission factors, particles, OC, EC, organic tracers
The Fire INventory from NCAR version 1.0 (FINNv1) provides daily, 1km resolution, global estimates of the trace gas and particle emissions from open burning of biomass, which includes wildfire, agricultural fires, and prescribed burning and does not include biofuel use and trash…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, biomass burning, chemical transport model, NMOC - nonmethane organic compounds, Fire INventory
Biomass burning covers open fires (forest and grassland fires, crop residue burning in fields, etc.) and biofuel combustion (crop residues and wood, etc., used as fuel). As a large agricultural country, China may produce large quantities of mercury emissions from biomass burning…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, cropland fires, fuel moisture, wildfires, air quality, herbaceous vegetation, leaves, Hg - mercury, pollution, woody plants, China, Asia, fire management, forest management, fuel management, range management, grasslands
In a future climate scenario forest fire activity over Portugal will substantially increase and consequently area burned and forest fire emissions to the atmosphere are also expected to increase. This study investigated the impact of future forest fire emissions on air quality…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire size, fuel loading, wildfires, air quality, climate change, ozone, particulates, pollution, Portugal, Europe, fire management, forest management, climate change, future fire activity, forest fire emissions, air quality modelling, ozone, particulate matter
Crop residue burning is an extensive agricultural practice in the contiguous United States (CONUS). This analysis presents the results of a remote sensing-based study of crop residue burning emissions in the CONUS for the time period 2003-2007 for the atmospheric species of…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: cropland fires, agriculture, air quality, remote sensing, Great Plains, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Texas, Washington, fire management, range management, croplands, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CH4 - methane, CO - carbon monoxide, NO2 - nitrogen dioxide, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, PM2.5, PM10, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
Thermal remote sensing studies of actively burning wildfires are usually based on the detection of Planckian energy emissions in the MIR (3-5 μm), LWIR (8-14 μm) and/or SWIR (1.0-2.5 μm) spectral regions. However, vegetation also contains a series of trace elements which…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: remote sensing, vegetation fires, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, K - potassium, Italy