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The November 2018 Camp Fire, a devastating wildfire in Northern California, occurred during the peak of breeding season for field monkeys at the California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC). Effects of environmental stressors, such as wildfires, on birth outcomes in…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: Camp Fire, wildfires, air quality, primate, particulate, phthalates, miscarriage, rhesus macaque monkey, Macaca mulatta, pregnancy outcomes
Wildfire episodes are becoming more rampant with global warming and climate change. Every year it causes lot of damage in terms of burnt acres and also impacts the air quality and climate through emission of various trace greenhouse gases. As emissions from large fires increase…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: trace gases, ozone, CH4 - methane, CO - carbon monoxide, water vapor, global warming, climate change, air quality
Typical hazardous fuel reduction treatments target small diameter trees for removal producing large amounts of woody material, much of which is piled and burned on site. Little is known about how physical characteristics and the environmental conditions under which piles are…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Northwest, Southwest
Keywords: pile burn
Fire has always been an important component of many ecosystems, but anthropogenic global climate change is now altering fire regimes over much of Earth's land surface, spurring a more urgent need to understand the physical, biological, and chemical processes associated with fire…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire, wildfire, fire science
Fire is widely used in the Amazon as a ubiquitous driver of land management and land cover change. Regardless of their purpose, fires release a considerable amount of pollutants into the atmosphere, with severe consequences for human health. This paper adds to…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: Brazil, air pollution, wildfire, instrumental variables methods, econometrics, hospitalizations, air quality, Brazilian Amazon, remote sensing
Fire activity and severity is increasing in the high northern latitudes, including burning landscapes long thought to be "fire resistant." Across the Pan-Arctic, smoke impacts from lengthening fire seasons in the boreal and the Arctic mean new public health…
Person: McCarty
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: Arctic region, climate change, black carbon, Russia, Canada, air quality, Siberia, agricultural fires, Scandinavia, burned area, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, cultural burning, Indigenous burning
Wildland fire incident management activities create an ideal environment for the transmission of infectious diseases: high-density living and working conditions, lack of access to and use of soap and sanitizers, and a transient workforce. These and other environmental and…
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Year:
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: infectious disease, COVID-19
Prescribed burning (PB) is practiced throughout the USA, most extensively in the southeast, for the purpose of maintaining and improving the ecosystem and reducing wildfire risk. However, PB emissions contribute significantly to trace gas and particulate matter loads in the…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire activity, forecasting, burn area, CART - classification and regression trees, CMAQ - Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System, DDM - decoupled direct method, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, satellite detection, air quality
As an aggregate of suspended particulate matter in the air, atmospheric aerosols can affect the regional climate. With the help of satellite remote sensing technology to retrieve AOD (aerosol optical depth) on a global or regional scale, accurate estimation of PM2.5…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: AOD - aerosol optical depth, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, air quality, data fusion, wildfire, machine learning, algorithms, deep belief networks
Smoke from wildfires is a well-recognized public health and safety issue. While there have been extensive efforts to help communities be “smoke ready”, most people would still prefer not to live with weeks of unhealthy air quality during the summer and fall.…
Person: Graw
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: air pathways, air quality, wildfires, fuel treatments, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, fuel bed, vegetative strata, AQI - Air Quality Index
Wildfires are relevant sources of PM emissions and can have an important impact on air pollution and human health. In this study, we examine the impact of wildfire PM emissions on the Piemonte (Italy) air quality regional monitoring network using a Generalized…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air pollution, PM - particulate matter, PM10, PM2.5, generalized additive mixed model, Italy
The Camp Fire was one of California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfires, and its widespread smoke threatened human health over a large area in Northern California in November 2018. To analyze the Camp Fire influence on air quality on a 200 km distant site…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California
Keywords: Camp Fire, black carbon, brown carbon, carbonaceous aerosol, wildfires, organic aerosols, air quality
Recently, extreme wildfires have damaged important ecosystems worldwide and have affected urban areas miles away due to long-range transport of smoke plumes. We performed a comprehensive analysis to clarify how smoke plumes from Pantanal and Amazon forests wildfires and…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Brazil, air pollution, smoke plumes, greenhouse gases, carbon isotopes, remote sensing, smoke transport, air quality
Australia commonly experiences extensive wildfires, mostly during its hot dry summers. These often lead to a significant loss of life and property. The October 2013 Blue Mountains Fire burnt through more than 100,000 hectares and generated a large amount of fire dust that was…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, wildfire, PM2.5, PM10, PM - particulate matter, O3 - ozone, NO - nitrogen oxide, SO - sulpher oxide, air pollution
Large fires or 'megafires' have been a major topic in wildland fire research and management for over a decade. There is great debate regarding the impacts of large fires. Many believe that they (1) are occurring too frequently, (2) are burning abnormally large areas, (3) cause…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire management, social consequences, political consequences
Fire is an intrinsic element of many forest ecosystems; it shapes their ecological processes, determines species composition and influences landscape structure. However, wildfires may: have undesirable effects on biodiversity and vegetation coverage; produce carbon emissions to…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: climate change, climate variability, forest fire, tool
To collect partner and employee input on the Wildfire Crisis Strategy 10-year Implementation Plan, the Forest Service and National Forest Foundation hosted a series of roundtable discussions in the winter and spring of 2022. Individual roundtables were focused on each of the…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: climate change, fire-adapted communities, fireshed, forest health, fuel treatment, ignition, land management, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), resilience, wildfires, Wildfire Crisis Strategy, trusted communicators, shared stewardship, equity, ITEK - Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge
The Wildland Fire Emissions Inventory System (WFEIS) came out of a NASA Applied Science program focused on creating maps of regional-scale wildland fire carbon emissions using the Consume emissions model and the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) for describing…
Person: French, Billmire
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: WFEIS - Wildland Fire Emissions Information System, air quality, land management, fire management, smoke management, atmospheric chemistry, FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, CONSUME, emission factor, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Canada, health effects, PM2.5, Arctic-Boreal zone
Forest fires can threaten amphibians because ash-associated contaminants transported by post-fire runoff impact both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Still, the effects of these contaminants on the skin microbiome of amphibians have been overlooked. Thus, the main objective…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: amphibians, antimicrobial activity, immune system, metals, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, wildfires, Iberian frog, Rana iberica, fire severity, eucalypt, Eucalyptus globulus
1. Fire can affect bees directly through exposure to heat and smoke. Direct effects include mortality, injury, and displacement affecting at most two generations adults and any immature progeny present during the fire. To study the direct effects of fire on bees…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: fire size, heat effects, lightning caused fires, smoke effects, wildfires, Utah, habits and behavior, insects, fire management, range management, wildlife management, Apoidea, bees, Artemisia, sagebrush, Bromus tectorum, cheatgrass, grasslands, Apoidea, disturbance, insects, sagebrush steppe
Over recent decades, efforts have been made to reduce human exposure to atmospheric pollutants including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) through emission control and abatement. Along with the potential changes in…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Australia, Queensland, air quality, hydrocarbons, fire management, smoke management, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, Seasonal Variation, temporal change, Emission Source Profile
Global change models predict that high-latitude boreal forests will become increasingly susceptible to fire activity as climate warms, possibly causing a positive feedback to warming through fire-driven emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere. However, fire-climate feedbacks depend…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: climate warming, C - carbon, N - nitrogen, succession, black spruce, Picea mariana, trembling aspen, Populus tremuloides, paper birch, Betula neoalaskana, deciduous forests, boreal forest, post-fire recovery, wildfires, climate change, overstory, fire management, forest management, Alaskan birch, quaking aspen
Fires and their associated carbon and air pollutant emissions have a broad range of environmental and societal impacts, including negative effects on human health, damage to terrestrial ecosystems, and indirect effects that promote climate change. Previous…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: wildfire, climate change, biomass, change, economic development, 21st Century
Prescribed burning is a prominent source of PM2.5 in the southeastern U.S. An air quality forecasting system called HiRes2 currently serves most areas in the southeastern U.S. to forecast PM2.5 concentrations one day in advance, including the impact of forecast prescribed…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: PM2.5, air quality management, fire activity, CMAQ - Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System, DDM - decoupled direct method, HYSPLIT - Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory, source attribution, emission contribution
Smouldering peat fires, the largest fires on Earth in terms of fuel consumption, are reported in six continents and are responsible for regional haze episodes. Haze is the large-scale accumulation of smoke at low altitudes in the atmosphere. It decreases air quality, disrupts…
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Year: 2018
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, International, National
Keywords: smoldering, peat fires, emission factor, MCE - modified combustion efficiency, wildfires, haze, air quality, PM - particulate matter, literature review