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Prescribed fires are used on about 155,000 acres of land each year in the Pacific Northwest states of Oregon and Washington. Particulate matter emission factors can be altered by selecting optimal burning conditions to improve combustion…
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: Oregon, phases of combustion, Washington, emission factors, particulate matter (PM) emissions

This report characterizes smoke emissions from small-scale prescribed burns in southern California chaparral. In situ measurements of smoke emissions were made from 12 fires. Three replicate tests were performed in each of four distinct fuel and fire treatments common to…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: chaparral, emission factor, smoke management, fire emissions

Data on the optical absorption properties (expressed as a specific absorption, Ba) of the smoke emissions from fires with forest fuels have been determined for a series of low-intensity field fires and a series of laboratory scale fires. The Ba data have been used to estimate…
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: absorption, laboratory fires, emission factors, smoke aerosol emissions, large wildfires, graphitic carbon, aerosols, air quality, broadcast burning, C - carbon, chemistry, climatology, field experimental fires, fire intensity, fuel types, laboratory fires, live fuels, logging, low intensity burns, needles, nuclear winter, organic matter, pine, post-fire recovery, radiation, slash, smoke behavior, tropical forest, wildfires

Fuel loading and fuel consumption were measured on four prescribed burns with a natural fuel component. These sites were in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon. Emissions were characterized on three of these sites. The fuel consumption was typical of a moderately wet…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: fuel loading, fuel consumption, Blue Mountains, northeastern Oregon, emission factors, CH4 - methane, CO - carbon monoxide, PM2.5, CONSUME, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, underburn, spring burn, NHMC - non-methane hydrocarbons

ANNOTATION: Guidelines in the form of a six-step approach are provided for estimating volumes, oven-dry mass, consumption, and particulate matter emissions for piled logging debris. Seven stylized pile shapes and their associated geometric volume formulae are used to estimate…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: biomass consumption, smoke management, piled slash, western United States