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While the vast majority of carbon emitted by wildland fires is released as CO2, CO, and CH4, wildland fire smoke is nonetheless a rich and complex mixture of gases and aerosols. Primary emissions include significant amounts of CH4 and aerosol (organic aerosol and black carbon),…
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Year: 2014
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, National
Keywords: carbon emissions, greenhouse gases, biomass burning, emission factors
While the vast majority of carbon emitted by wildland fires is released as CO2, CO, and CH4, wildland fire smoke is nonetheless a rich and complex mixture of gases and aerosols. Primary emissions include significant amounts of CH4 and aerosol (organic aerosol and black carbon),…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, N - nitrogen, fire management, smoke management, biomass burning, greenhouse gases, emission factors
Smoke emission factors (EFs) have been developed for a variety of wildland fuels beginning in the late 1960s. Many of these EFs have been presented in a variety of outlets and there is no centralized repository containing many of the EFs…
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Year: 2014
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: particulates, trace gases, biota
Emission factors (EFs) are crucial in understanding the effects of wildfire emissions on air quality. We examined the variability of EFs of three wildfires (Nethker, Castle, and 204 Cow) during the 2019 Western US wildfire season using the…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: emission factors, air quality, FIREX‐AQ - Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality, MCE - modified combustion efficiency
Until recently, monitoring for emissions from open burning were limited principally to industrial pollutants, as governed by the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. Emission factors were determined by relating the quantity of effluent…
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, particulates
Background and aims: To assess development of a robust emissions accounting framework for expansive miombo woodland savannas covering ~2 million km2 of southern Africa that typically are burnt under relatively severe late dry season (LDS) conditions.Methods: A detailed site-…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: carbon markets, emission factors, fire management, fuel accumulation, fuel combustion, greenhouse gases, Miombo, Africa
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 particulate matter from prescribed fire in Georgia were sampled from an airplane and from various points on the ground. The source strength for the tire was determined, and an average emission factor for particulate matter of 10.3 g…
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Georgia, PM - particulate matter, smoke plumes, smoke behavior, air quality, particulates, state forests, fire management, forest management, smoke management, SFP - Southern Fire Portal
Mercury stored in forests can be volatilized to the atmosphere during fires. Many factors influence this process such as mercury concentration, vegetation loading and the soil temperature reached during the fire. We quantified mercury emissions from biomass and soil during a…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, Hg - mercury, soil temperature, Amazon, Brazil, South America, fire management, forest management, soil management, rainforests, forest fire, mercury emissions, Amazon
Two different types of typical Brazilian forest biomass were burned in the laboratory in order to compare their combustion characteristics and pollutant emissions. Approximately 2 kg of Amazon biomass (hardwood) and 2 kg of Araucaria biomass (softwood) were burned. Gaseous…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: combustion, fire intensity, laboratory fires, air quality, biomass, carbon dioxide, gases, hardwoods, lignin, particulates, pollution, Brazil, South America, fire management, forest management, forest biomass, combustion, lignin content, PM2.5, gas emissions
This project characterized the emissions from a simulated wildfire and their evolution downwind via an airborne platform hosting state of the science online measurement techniques for speciated PM1 aerosol, black carbon, water soluble particulate organic carbon, and levoglucosan…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: South Carolina, black carbon, climate impacts, fire emissions, trace gases, organic aerosols
During a prescribed fire experiment, CO2 and particle number concentrations, light scattering and absorption coefficients were measured from a Cessna 172 airplane. Peak number concentrations were (3 ± 1) x 106 cm-3 and they decreased faster than what can be explained by…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: experimental fires, smoke behavior, aerosols, carbon dioxide, particulates, slash, Finland, Europe, fire management, forest management, smoke management, boreal forests
Particulate matter and aromatic hydrocarbon emissions from the controlled combustion of alpha pinene
Combustion of a forest fuel complex produces a diverse mixture of oxygenated and unsaturated hydrocarbon compounds mixed with aerosols. This study examines the production rates for a number of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) precursor compounds produced from the controlled…
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, C - carbon, cellulose, combustion, combustion chambers, flame length, gases, hydrocarbons, laboratory fires, particulates, resins, Washington
Fire environment effects on particulate matter emission factors in southeastern U.S. pine-grasslands
Particulate matter (PM) emission factors (EFPM), which predict particulate emissions per biomass consumed, have a strong influence on event-based and regional PM emission estimates and inventories. PM < 2.5 μm aerodynamic diameter (PM2.5),…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: PM2.5, combustion efficiency, biomass burning, structural equation modelling, combustion, fire frequency, air quality, needles, overstory, particulates, Pebble Hill, thinning, TTRS - Tall Timbers Research Station, Florida, Georgia, fire management, forest management, grasslands, pine forests, SFP - Southern Fire Portal
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
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
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,…
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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, C - carbon, combustion, dead fuels, field experimental fires, fire equipment, fire management, gases, headfires, humidity, low intensity burns, N - nitrogen, Ohio, particulates, rate of spread, sampling, smoke behavior, smoke management, temperature, wind
While fire has long played a role in the longleaf pine ecosystem, there are still some stands in the southeastern United States where fire has not been reintroduced and fuels have accumulated for 50 years or more. As part of a larger study examining fuel loading and smoke…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: longleaf pine, Pinus palustris, monoterpenes, residual combustion, smoldering, biomass burning
The aim of this paper was to provide an overview of the current state of the art on research into the emission of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) from vegetation fires. Significant amounts of VOCs are emitted from vegetation fires, including several reactive…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, heat effects, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, chemical compounds, hydrocarbons, organic soils, ozone, plant communities, remote sensing, Africa, Amazon, South America, fire management, Mediterranean habitats, savannas, biomass burning, BVOC - Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds, combustion phases, forest fires, isoprenoids, plant communities and functional types
Emissions from wildland fire are both highly variable and highly uncertain over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. Wildland fire emissions change considerably due to fluctuations from year to year with overall fire season severity, from season to season as different…
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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: greenhouse gases, PM - particulate matter, EI - Emission Inventory
Emissions from wildland fire are both highly variable and highly uncertain over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. Wildland fire emissions change considerably due to fluctuations from year to year with overall fire season severity, from season to season as different…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, greenhouse gases, fire management, smoke management, emissions inventories, greenhouse gases
Forest fires are a major contributor of gaseous and particulate compounds to the atmosphere, impairing air quality and affecting human health. A new forest fire emissions module was developed and integrated into the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), which…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire case histories, fire intensity, fire size, fuel loading, fuel moisture, wildfires, air quality, gases, humidity, overstory, particulates, pollution, precipitation, remote sensing, temperature, Portugal, Europe, fire management, forest management, smoke management, forest aires, burnt area, gas and particulate pollutants, air quality
Land managers rely on prescribed burning and naturally ignited wildfires for ecosystem management, and must balance trade-offs of air quality, carbon storage, and ecosystem health. A current challenge for land managers when using fire for ecosystem management is managing smoke…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: fire case histories, fire size, fuel loading, fuel models, wildfires, woody fuels, air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, ozone, particulates, pollution, Washington, fire management, forest management, land management, smoke management, CONSUME, fire size, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, fuel consumption, smoke emissions, 2006 Tripod Complex Fires
Land managers rely on prescribed burning and naturally ignited wildfires for ecosystem management, and must balance trade-offs of air quality, carbon storage, and ecosystem health. A current challenge for land managers when using fire for ecosystem management is managing smoke…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, fire size, fuel loading, fuel consumption, 2006 Tripod Complex Fires
Increasing wildfire activity in recent decades, partially related to extended droughts, along with concern over potential impacts of future climate change on fire activity has resulted in increased attention on fire-climate interactions. Findings from studies published in recent…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire projections, radiative forcing, climate feedbacks