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Chronic nitrogen deposition has measureable impacts on soil and plant health. We investigate burning emissions from biomass grown in areas of high and low NO x deposition. Gas and aerosol-phase emissions were measured as a function of photochemical aging in an…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): California
Keywords: NO - nitrogen oxide, nitrogen deposition, laboratory experiments, air quality
Across leading environmental challenges-fire management, climate change, deforestation - there is growing awareness of the need to better account for diverse stakeholder perceptions across complex, multi-level governance arrangements. Perceptions often condition behavior,…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire management, deforestation, peat fires, carbon, Indonesia, policy, Q method, haze, conservation, transboundary governance, tropical peatlands, climate change, transboundary haze, management, consequences, biodiversity, agriculture, dynamics, services
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Health risks due to particulate matter (PM) from wildfires may differ from risk due to PM from other sources. In places frequently subjected to wildfire smoke, such as Reno, Nevada, it is critical to determine whether wildfire PM poses unique risks.…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, asthma, Nevada, PM2.5, air quality, PM10, wildfires, emergency department visits, urgent care, Reno, interaction, GAM - generalized additive model
We examined whether discretionary use of an N95 mask reduced symptom reporting in wildland firefighters. The study collected data from two Canadian provinces during the 2021 fire season, with each firefighter followed for up to 4 rotations. Participants completed questionnaires…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildland firefighters, respiratory symptoms, respiratory protection, N95 masks, Intervention, Canada, N95 respirator
Background: Efforts to mitigate the adverse effects of wildfire smoke have focused on modifying human behaviour to minimise individual exposure, largely accomplished by providing smoke forecasts, monitoring, and consistent public messaging.
Aims: To identify a…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air pathways, air quality, back trajectories, communities, fuel treatments, PM2.5, source apportionment, vegetative strata, Oregon
Estimating population exposure to particulate matter during wildfires can be difficult because of insufficient monitoring data to capture the spatiotemporal variability of smoke plumes. Chemical transport models (CTMs) and satellite retrievals provide…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire frequency, fire intensity, lightning caused fires, smoke behavior, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, particulates, pollution, remote sensing, fire management, smoke management
The requirement to model wind is inherently connected with the modelling of many fire-related phenomena. With its defining influence on fire behaviour, spread and smoke transport, the solution of a problem with and without wind exposure will lead to…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: wind, computational wind engineering, fire safety, CFD - Computational Fluid Dynamics, fire analysis
The 2013 Rim Fire was the third largest wildfire in California history and burned 257 314 acres in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. We evaluated air-quality impacts of PM2.5 from smoke from the Rim Fire on receptor areas in California and Nevada. We employed two approaches to…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: 2013 Rim Fire, Sierra Nevada, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, air quality, urban areas, rural areas, wildfires, climate change, particulates
Estimating population exposure to particulate matter during wildfires can be difficult because of insufficient monitoring data to capture the spatiotemporal variability of smoke plumes. Chemical transport models (CTMs) and satellite retrievals provide…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, cross validation, chemical transport model, GASP - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Aerosol/Smoke Product, AOD - aerosol optical depth, smoke plumes, smoke prediction
Smoke impacts are increasing across the west. Many communities are wrangling with how to address this intrusive element, especially among sensitive and vulnerable populations. HEPA filters are a proven mitigation tool but for many, these filters are out of reach due to a…
Person: Krasilovsky, Gibble, Ray, Coefield, Lerch
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: air quality, FAC - fire adapted communities, indoor air filtration, HEPA filter - high effieciency particulate air filter, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, respiratory health, portable air purifier, portable air cleaners
Wildfire emissions affect downwind air quality and human health. Predictions of these impacts using models are limited by uncertainties in emissions and chemical evolution of smoke plumes. Using high-time-resolution aircraft measurements, we illustrate spatial…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfire, chemistry, plume, hydroxyl radical, fire plume evolution, air quality, O3 - ozone
This report presents key findings, conclusions, and recommendations from a longitudinal research study on wildfire preparedness and evacuation planning in a pandemic (CONVERGE 2020).
The research aim was to understand the social, ecological, and public health…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: wildfire, preparedness, evacuation, COVID-19, pandemics, risk perception
Wildfires can be divided in two types, flaming or smouldering, depending on the dominant combustion processes. Both types are present in most wildfires, and despite being fundamentally different in chemical and physical terms, one transitions to the other. Traditionally, science…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: peat fire, peat, climate change, smouldering, smoldering, firebrand, pollution, air pollution, Arctic
Join us in a discussion on how climatic changes can influence wildland fire activity across the globe and how these critical fire weather variables have changed over the last 40 years. These changes in key weather variables have combined to both lengthen the fire season and…
Person: West, Legarza, Jolly, Emanuel, Knight
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: climate change, relative humidity, rain, annual precipitation, fire regimes, fire danger indices, fire season length, fire return interval, global carbon cycle, Forest Resilience Bond, fire suppression, fire suppression costs
Wildland fires are a major source of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), one of the most harmful ambient pollutants for human health globally. To represent the influence of wildland fire emissions on atmospheric composition, regional and global chemical transport…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: CMAQ - Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System, wildfires, PM2.5, burned area, NEI - National Emissions Inventory, FINN - Fire Inventory of NCAR, GFED - Global Fire Emissions Database, air quality
The Arctic is experiencing record heat and wildfires are ramping up across the global north. New research shows northern forest fire frequency and severity are rapidly increasing, releasing large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and worsening climate feedback loops. WHRC…
Person: Rogers, Natali, Frumhoff
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forests, 2020 fire season, climate change, fire frequency, fire severity, burned area, C - carbon, carbon release, air temperature, carbon emissions, wildfires, black carbon, human health, permafrost, fire management, carbon budget
By producing a first-of-its-kind, decadal-scale wildfire plume rise climatology in the Western U.S. and Canada, we identify trends toward enhanced plume top heights, aerosol loading aloft, and near-surface smoke injection throughout the American West. Positive and significant…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest, International
Keywords: fire plumes, wildfires, burn severity, air quality, aerosols, atmospheric science, climate change, environmental impacts, western Canada, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5
Air pollution spikes in the central Himalayas' southern regions, including Nepal and northern India, occur mainly from wildfires during March to May. Despite being a significant contributor to pre-monsoon pollution, wildfire smoke remains under-researched. This study used…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, PM2.5, air pollution, Nepal, air quality
These Smoke Management Best Management Practices (SMBMP) are a set of guidelines and procedures that are followed by signatory organizations to reduce the adverse effects of smoke from prescribed fires. The goal of the Wisconsin SMBMP is to prevent violations of the federal…
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Year:
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords:
The Rough Fire started on 31 July 2015 from a lightning strike, spread to over 61,000 ha and burned parts of the Sierra and Sequoia National Forests and the Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks, in California. Health advisories for smoke were issued in…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra Nevada, 2015 Rough Fire, air quality, PM - particulate matter, wildfires, air quality
Management of smoke from prescribed fires requires knowledge of fuel quantity and the amount and composition of the smoke produced by the fire to minimize adverse impacts on human health. A five-year study produced new emissions information for more than 100…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: longleaf pine, Pinus palustris, smoldering, emission factors, pocosin, flaming, residual smoldering, trace gases, infrared spectroscopy, smoke particulates
Air quality is important for human health, as well as natural resources. Air pollution includes gases and particles in the air that are emitted by power plants, factories, automobiles, and other sources. This can have serious effects on air quality, wildlife,…
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Year:
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, glossary
Sarah Trainor & Jeremy Littell present at the 2021 Association for Fire Ecology Conference special session: The Nexus of Climate Change and Fire: Taking Science to Action
Addressing the unprecedented challenges of climate change, wildland fire, and human land use requires…
Person: Littell, Trainor
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Safety
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: wildfire, fire management, wildfire management, climate change, Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, partnerships, boundary organization, decision making, human health, fuels management, PM2.5, fire regime change, fire frequency, annual area burned
Peat fires in Southeast Asia have become a major annual source of trace gases and particles to the regional–global atmosphere. The assessment of their influence on atmospheric chemistry, climate, air quality, and health has been uncertain partly due to a lack of…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Indonesia, trace gases, El Niño, peat fires, aerosols
Climate change impacts and rapid development in the wildland-urban interface are increasing population exposure and vulnerability to the harmful effects of wildfire and wildfire smoke. The direct and indirect effects of these hazards may impact future mobility…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California
Keywords: climate migration, risk perception, personal experience, wildfire, threat appraisal, migration intentions, mitigation