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Presentation to the 33rd Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology/12th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium/Fourth Conference on Biogeosciences. This presentation focuses on emission factors for wildland fire fuels.
Person: O'Neill
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: emission factor, smoke modeling, smoke models
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
Aerial- and ground-sampled emissions from three prescribed forest burns in the southeastern U.S. were compared to emissions from laboratory open burn tests using biomass from the same locations. A comprehensive array of emissions, including PM2.5, black carbon (BC), brown carbon…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: PM2.5, black carbon, brown carbon, carbon dioxide, VOC - volatile organic compounds, PCDD - polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, PCDF - polychlorinated dibenzofurans, biomass burning
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
We report trace-gas emission factors from three pine-understory prescribed fires in South Carolina, US measured during the fall of 2011. The fires were more intense than many prescribed burns because the fuels included mature pine stands not…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: longleaf pine, Pinus palustris, South Carolina, smoldering, fourier transform infrared spectroradiometer
The Smoke Emissions Reference Application (SERA) database is a compilation of field and laboratory emission factors of wildland fire across the United States and Canada. The SERA database facilitates the analysis and summary of existing …
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Year:
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Canada, greenhouse gas emissions, PM - particulate matter, smoke management, wildfire emissions
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
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
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
Field and laboratory emission factors (EFs) of wildland fire emissions for 276 known air pollutants sampled across Canada and the US were compiled. An online database, the Smoke Emissions Repository Application (SERA), was created to enable…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, PM - particulate matter, smoke management, Canada, wildfire emissions
Release of PCDD and PCDF from biomass combustion such as forest and agricultural crop fires has been nominated as an important source for these chemicals despite minimal characterisation. Available emission factors that have been experimentally…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northwest, Southern
Keywords: PCDD - polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, PCDF - polychlorinated dibenzofurans, persistent organic pollutants, bushfire, forest fires, sugarcane burning, laboratory fires
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team (PNW Research Station) and the Fire Chemistry Project (RM Research Station) have completed the data collection and modeling for fuel consumption and smoke emissions during wildland fires in boreal forested types in Alaska.…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: boreal forest, duff consumption, duff moisture, black spruce, Consume 3.0, feathermoss, forest floor consumption, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, white spruce
As part of the Tropical Forest and Fire Emissions Experiment (TROFFEE), tropical forest fuels were burned in a large, biomass-fire simulation facility and the smoke was characterized with open-path Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), proton-transfer reaction mass…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: Amazon, Brazil, biomass burning, emission factors, TROFFEE - Tropical Forest and Fire Emissions Experiment
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.…
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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
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.…
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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: 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 University of Colorado Airborne Solar Occultation Flux (CU AirSOF) instrument conducted the first suborbital carbon monoxide (CO) mass flux measurements on the scale of large wildfires, showing that the destructive fires in northern California in October 2017 emitted 2040 ±…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: CO - carbon monoxide, remote sensing, large wildfires, air quality, satellite data, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, CU AirSOF - University of Colorado Airborne Solar Occultation Flux
In the past few decades, forest fires have increased in number and severity, especially in the Mediterranean regions of Türkiye and Greece, where significant fires caused damage to thousands of hectares of land as well as wildlife. The main objective of the present study is to…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfire, Sentinel-2, burn severity, GFED - Global Fire Emissions Database, eastern Mediterranean, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5
Biomass burning is a major source of aerosols that affect air quality and the Earth's radiation budget. Current estimates of biomass burning emissions vary markedly due to uncertainties in biomass density, combustion efficiency, emission factor…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Arizona, Arkansas, biomass, biomass burning, combustion, coniferous forests, cover, cover type, deciduous forests, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, grasses, grasslands, hardwood forests, heavy fuels, Idaho, leaves, litter, Louisiana, moisture, Montana, needles, Oregon, particulates, radiation, remote sensing, shrubs, statistical analysis, vegetation surveys, wildfires, biomass burning emissions, particulate matter, multiple satellite instruments, GOES, near real time
Mercury emissions from forest fires in Europe and in North African countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea were estimated on the basis of ground-based forest fires data, forests phytomass and measured emission factors. Satellite observations…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, Asia, biomass, carbon, combustion, deforestation, distribution, Europe, fire management, fire size, foliage, France, GIS, Italy, Mediterranean habitats, Hg - mercury, Middle East, phenology, plant communities, Poland, pollution, Portugal, remote sensing, Russia, smoke management, Spain, statistical analysis, wildfires, remote sensing, GIS, Europe, Russian federation, Mediterranean, forest fires, Hg - mercury
Biomass burning from forest regions and agriculture crop residues can emit substantial amounts of particulate matter and other pollutants into the atmosphere. An inventory of forest, grassland and agricultural burning is important for studies related to global change. This study…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Asia, biomass, broadcast burning, croplands, fire management, gases, climate change, grasslands, India, particulates, range management, remote sensing, statistical analysis, biomass burning, cereal waste, gases and particle emissions, field burning, global change
Fires and the aerosols that they emit impact air quality, health, and climate, but the abundance and properties of carbonaceous aerosol (both black carbon and organic carbon) from biomass burning (BB) remain uncertain and poorly constrained. We aim to explore the uncertainties…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: biomass burning, organic aerosols, air quality, AOD - aerosol optical depth, FINN - Fire Inventory of NCAR, IMPROVE network, GEOS-Chem, wildfires, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, black carbon, Aerosol Direct Radiative Effect
Agricultural practices and land use modification were estimated to produce 14% and 9%, respectively, of the total greenhouse gas emissions contributing to global warming in the decade preceding 1990 (Marshall, 1989). Carbon release rates from tropical forest conversion have been…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: laboratory fires, wind tunnel, gaseous emissions, biomass burning
Fires contribute substantial emissions of trace gases and particles to the atmosphere. These emissions can impact air quality and even climate. We have developed a modeling framework to estimate the emissions from fires in North and parts of Central America (10-71 degrees N and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, emissions, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, North America, PM - particulate matter, Mexico, agriculture, agricultural fires, CO - carbon monoxide, South America, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, cover, croplands, duff, fire management, fuel loading, gases, grasslands, herbaceous vegetation, overstory, particulates, precipitation, remote sensing, shrubs, smoke management, statistical analysis, wetlands, wildfires
The MODIS instrument on the NASA Terra satellite has been conducting routine global measurements of active fires and aerosol optical depths since late 2000. Currently, it takes more than 4 days to acquire MODIS data from the NASA DAAC Center, making it difficult to use the…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: air quality, fire detection, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer