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Savanna fires contribute significantly to global aerosol loading and hence to the Earth's radiative budget. Modeling of the climatic impact of these aerosols is made difficult due to a lack of knowledge of their size distribution. Australia is the third largest source of global…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, savannas, wildfires, aerosols, gases, emission factors, Northern Territory of Australia, trace gases
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, carbon, particulates, Italy, Europe, smoke management, levoglucosan, wood burning, emission factors, source apportionment
Forest fires are becoming increasingly severe and frequent due to global climate change. Trace gases emitted from forest fires significantly affect atmospheric chemistry and climate change on a regional and global scale. Forest fires occur frequently in Southwest China, but…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: China, forest fires, trace gases, emission factors, combustion stage
Deforestation and draining of the peatlands in equatorial SE Asia has greatly increased their flammability, and in September–October 2015 a strong El Niño-related drought led to further drying and to widespread burning across parts of Indonesia, primarily on Kalimantan and…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Indonesia, peatlands, PM - particulate matter, emission factors, PM2.5, air quality, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, El Niño
In this paper we present the first early dry season (early June-early August) emission factor measurements for carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), methane (CH4), nonmethane hydrocarbons (NMHC), and particulates with a diameter less than…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: atmospheric science, global change, savannas, Africa, savanna fires
The burning of agricultural crop residue represents a major source of trace gases (CO, CO2, NO, NO2, and NOx) and particulate matter on a regional and global scale. This study investigates the gaseous and particulate emissions from the burning of rice, wheat and corn straws,…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, agriculture, air quality, Asia, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, China, combustion, cropland fires, fire management, gases, GIS - geographic information system, particulates, range management, agricultural crop residue, gaseous pollutant, emission factor, EI - Emission Inventory, emission allocation
This paper complements the information previously published (Atmospheric Environment 45, 641-649) on gaseous and particulate emissions from wildfires in Portugal for summer 2009, in an attempt at obtaining more extensive, complete and representative databases on emission…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, carbon, gases, hydrocarbons, particulates, Portugal, Europe, fire management, smoke management, wildfires, trace gases, emission factors, organic compounds, water-soluble ions, trace elements, Portugal
Current fire emission inventories apply universal emission factors (EFs) for the calculation of NOx emissions over large biomes such as boreal forest. However, recent satellite-based studies over tropical and subtropical regions have indicated…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, Asia, Europe, Canada, radiation, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, smoke management, boreal forests, satellite measurements, Tropospheric No2, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, NOx emission factor
Peatland fires are one of the major global sources of atmospheric particles. Emission factors for fine (PM1 and PM2.5) and ultrafine (PM0.1) particles and particle-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from plants in the peat swamp…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: peat swamp forest, forest burning source, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Melaleuca cajuputi, PM2.5, PM1, PM0.1, leaf litter, PAH diagnostic ratios, particle emission factors
Fires in tropical peatlands account for >25% of estimated total greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and degradation. Despite significant global and regional impacts, our understanding of specific gaseous fire emission factors (EFs)…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: tropical peat, emission factors, peat, peatland degradation, greenhouse gases, Malaysia
Airborne measurements of trace gases and particles over and downwind of two prescribed savanna fires in Zambia are described. The measurements include profiles through the smoke plumes of condensation nucleus concentrations and normalized excess mixing ratios of particles and…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, emission factors, Zambia, airborne measurements, savanna fires
Wildland fires are a major source of gases and aerosols, and the production, dispersion, and transformation of fire emissions have significant ambient air quality impacts and climate interactions. The increase in wildfire area burned and severity across the United States and…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest, International
Keywords: emission factors, wildland fire, wildfire, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, CH4 - methane, C - carbon, VOC - volatile organic compounds
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, carbon, carbon dioxide, gases, hydrocarbons, organic matter, particulates, Portugal, Europe, fire management, wildfires, trace gases, carbonaceous particles, emission factors, water-soluble ions, metals
The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants includes in its aims the minimisation of unintentional releases of polychlorinated dibenzo-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/PCDF) and dioxin like PCB (dl-PCB) to the environment. Development and implementation of policies…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, cropland fires, wildfires, air quality, ash, pollution, toxicity, fire management, forest management, smoke management, croplands, PCDD - polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, PCDF - polychlorinated dibenzofurans, persistent organic pollutants, sugarcane burning, forest fires, biomass burning
The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants includes in its aims the minimisation of unintentional releases of polychlorinated dibenzo-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/PCDF) and dioxin like PCB (dl-PCB) to the environment. Development and implementation of policies…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern, Southern, International
Keywords: biomass burning, cropland fires, wildfires, air quality, ash, pollution, toxicity, fire management, forest management, smoke management, croplands, PCDD - polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, PCDF - polychlorinated dibenzofurans, persistent organic pollutants, sugarcane burning, forest fires, laboratory fires, Australia, Florida, North Carolina, Minnesota, France
Leaves from three species of Eucalyptus were combusted in a mass-loss calorimeter to characterise the effect of fuel moisture on energy release and combustion products for this genus. Increasing moisture content reduced peak heat release and the effective heat of combustion in a…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: combustion, fire control, fire intensity, fuel moisture, heat, ignition, air quality, CO2 - carbon dioxide, leaves, Eucalyptus spp., Australia, fire management, fuel management, effective heat of combustion, emission factors, Eucalyptus bicostata, Eucalyptus saligna, Eucalyptus tereticornis, heat release rate, ignition probability, time to ignition, heat of combustion
Inventories of methyl halide emissions from domestic burning of biomass in Africa, from 1950 to the present day and projected to 2030, have been constructed. By combining emission factors from Andreae and Merlet [2001. Emission of trace gases…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, biomass burning, charcoal, chemical compounds, fire management, fuel management, gases, Africa, biofuel, domestic biomass burning, emission factor, methyl halide
Emission factors for several trace gases were determined using airborne measurements from 13 biomass fires in North America. Emissions of methane (CH4), nonmethane hydrocarbons (NMHC), hydrogen (H2) and ammonia (NH3) were found to be positively…
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, North America, smoke measurements, trace gas emissions, biomass burning, biomass burning emissions inventories, airborne measurements
Airborne measurements of thirteen 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…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): California, Northwest, International
Keywords: biomass burning, emission factors, fire emissions, trace gases, airborne measurements, wildfires, air quality, gases, Picea glauca, white spruce, Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, jack pine, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Douglas-fir, Ontario, Canada, Oregon, fire management, forest management, smoke management, chaparral, coniferous forests
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, carbon, carbon dioxide, climate change, gases, hydrocarbons, particulates, Portugal, Europe, fire management, smoke management, wildfire, organic compounds, PM2.5, PM2.5-10, emission factors
Airborne measurements made on initial smoke from 10 savanna fires in southern Africa provide quantitative data on emissions of 50 gaseous and particulate species, including carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, methane, ammonia, dimethyl sulfide,…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, trace gas emissions, biomass burning, particle emissions
Wildfire emission inventories are usually applied with biome-scale emission factors for atmospheric modeling. However, emission factors measured for different plant species vary substantially within the same…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: black carbon, Eurasia, EI - Emission Inventory, GFED - Global Fire Emissions Database
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, savanna fires are under…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: savanna fires, CH4 - methane, emission factors, combustion efficiency, Africa
Emission factors for PCDD/PCDF determined from open combustion are used to estimate national emission budgets; therefore, it is important to have confidence in their accuracy. It has been suspected that artefacts may form due to the presence of…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, cropland fires, wildfires, air quality, litter, pollution, New South Wales, Australia, fire management, forest edges, hardwood forests, PCDD - polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, PCDF - polychlorinated dibenzofurans, persistent organic pollutants, bushfires, forest fires, biomass burning