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The purpose of the workshop was for research scientists, air quality specialists, policy administrators, and others to present and discuss recent advances in research relating to estimation of emission factors for particulate matter (PM) and its…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, emission estimates, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, emission factors, particulate matter (PM) emissions, workshop summary
From the text ... 'Despite major advances in our understanding of how anthropogenic emissions impact on air quality, there is still very little knowledge of the roll that very small particles play in this pollution and how we can better manage this component of global emissions…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, carbon, nitrogen, particulates, pollution, remote sensing, S - sulfur, Tall Timbers Research Station, north Florida, fire management
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
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
The aim of this study was the detailed organic speciation of fine (PM2.5) and coarse (PM2.5-10) particles and gaseous carbonyl compounds from plumes emitted by wildfires during the summer of 2009 in Portugal. Complementary characterisation of the smoke particulate inorganic…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire case histories, fire frequency, smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, gases, particulates, Portugal, Europe, fire management, forest management, smoke management, wildfires, trace gases, particulate matter, emission factors, organic speciation
The Global Fire Assimilation System (GFASv1.0) calculates biomass burning emissions by assimilating Fire Radiative Power (FRP) observations from the MODIS instruments onboard the Terra and Aqua satellites. It corrects for gaps in the observations, which are mostly due to cloud…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, aerosols, air quality, remote sensing, statistical analysis, fire management
We present a comparison of techniques for estimating atmospheric emissions from fires using Australia's 2009 ''Black Saturday'' wildfires as a case study. Most of the fires started on Saturday the 7th of February 2009 (a date now known as ''Black Saturday'') and then spread…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire case histories, wildfires, air quality, storms, wind, Victoria, Australia, fire management, forest management, smoke management, FINNv1, FEEV-AOD, GFECV3.1, biomass burning
Forest fires release significant amounts of trace gases and aerosols into the atmosphere. Depending on meteorological conditions, fire emissions can efficiently reduce air quality and visibility, even far away from emission sources. In 2005, an arson forest fire burned nearly…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, rate of spread, smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, gases, CH4 - methane, N - nitrogen, ozone, particulates, pollution, France, fire management, smoke management, Mediterranean habitats, Mediterranean region, off-line coupled model, fire spread, injection height, smoke plume pollutants
Biomass burning (BB) is a major global source of trace gases and particles. Accurately representing the production and evolution of these emissions is an important goal for atmospheric chemical transport models. We measured a suite of gases and aerosols emitted from an 81…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California
Keywords: chaparral, sagebrush, emission factor, ozone, trace gas emissions, biomass burning, Artemisia californica, FTIR - Fourier transform infrared absorption spectroscopy , emission ratio
Soil is an important reservoir of PCDD/PCDF, which can be released when environmental conditions change. Fire is an extreme event that can increase the surface temperatures of soil substantially, yet little is known of the role soil plays in the emission of PCDD…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, pollution, soil nutrients, soil temperature, volatilization, New South Wales, Australia, fire management, soil management, forest fire, bushfire, emission factors, dioxins
The contribution of PCDD/PCDF emissions from soil during open burning of biomass was examined. Mass labelled PCDD/PCDF was added to soil containing native PCDD/PCDF and biomass was laid out on this soil and burnt, simulating sugarcane trash and forest fires. Smoke samples were…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: cropland fires, wildfires, air quality, biomass, chemical compounds, litter, pollution, soil temperature, New South Wales, Australia, fire management, forest management, croplands, PCDD - polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, PCDF - polychlorinated dibenzofurans, persistent organic pollutants, bushfires, forest fires, emission factors