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Deforestation and draining of the peatlands in equatorial SE Asia has greatly increased their flammability, and in September–October 2015 a strong El Niño-related drought led to further drying and to widespread burning across parts of Indonesia, primarily on Kalimantan and…
Person:
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Indonesia, peatlands, PM - particulate matter, emission factors, PM2.5, air quality, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, El Niño
A review of academic and technical literature showed that do-it-yourself (DIY) air cleaners performed similarly to commercial portable air cleaners in terms of clean air delivery rate (CADR) and energy efficiency under controlled conditions. However, DIY devices were much more…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, DIY - do it yourself, portable air cleaners, CADR - clean air delivery rate
Wildfire frequency has increased in the Western US over recent decades, driven by climate change and a legacy of forest management practices. Consequently, human structures, health, and life are increasingly at risk due to wildfires. Furthermore, wildfire smoke…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: wildfire, air quality, fire arrival, biomass burning, SFIRE, FINN - Fire Inventory of NCAR, wildfire spread
Biomass burning is a large source of uncontrolled air pollutants, including particulate matter (i.e., PM2.5), black carbon (BC), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and carbon monoxide (CO), which have significant effects on air quality, human health, and climate…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, black carbon, VOC - volatile organic compounds, CO - carbon monoxide, air quality, wildfires, smoke plumes
The unprecedented magnitude of the 2019-20 Australian fires have raised interest in the potential for fire emissions to supply vital nutrients to remote ocean regions. Fire emissions are episodic and unpredictable, making them difficult to investigate. Here we present results…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, bioaccessible iron, nitrate, ammonium, Southern Hemisphere, levoglucosan, Tasmania
Between 2010 and 2020, an average of 36,037 hectares of grassland burned in wildfires in California each year, emitting greenhouse gasses (GHGs) and particulate matter (PM). These emissions impact climate and human health. Cattle grazing removes herbaceous fuel…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): California
Keywords: livestock, herbaceous fuel, Monte Carlo, climate change, greenhouse gas, PM - particulate matter, grasslands
The health effects of the unprecedented bushfires in Australia in 2019–20 have not been fully examined. We aimed to examine the excess emergency department (ED) visits related to the 2019–20 bushfires in New South Wales (NSW). We obtained weekly data of ED…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, bushfire, wildfire, cardiovascular disease, emergency department visits, respiratory disease, 2019/2020 Australian wildfires
United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to protect the planet and ensure prosperity. In reaching SDGs, Indonesia's palm oil industry represents a solution for the economy but a problem for environment-related goals. Palm oil is a tremendous land-based commodity…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: landscape, sustainability, green product, sustainable development, palm oil, fire use, Indonesia
Ecosystem fires are stochastic and anthropogenic phenomena that affect critical soil processes. Nevertheless, environmental managers, policy-makers, and even scientists have often overlooked the induced transformations that fire does to soil organic matter (SOM), which sustains…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: soil organic matter, decomposition, microbial decomposition, C - carbon, carbon emissions, greenhouse gases, stable isotopes, water-extractable organic matter, burn intensity
Understanding the combustion dynamics of fuels, and the generation and propagation of smoke in a wildland fire, can inform short-range and long-range pollutant transport models, and help address and mitigate air quality concerns in communities. Smoldering smoke can cause…
Person:
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, smoke dynamics, fine particulate matter, flaming combustion, smoldering combustion, smoke propagation, micro sensor system, black spruce, Picea mariana, Alberta, Canada
Weather and climate are major factors influencing worldwide wildfire activity. This study assesses surface and atmospheric conditions associated with the 2014 extreme wildfires in the Northwest Territories (NWT) of Canada. Hot and dry conditions led to the NWT experiencing the…
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Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: lightning, wildfires, NWT - Northwest Territories, circulation, extremes, Canada, air quality
Part 1: Northern Utah Wood Smoke Survey. Joel Karmazyn, Environmental Scientist, Department of Environmental Quality. The purpose of the survey was to provide detailed information on the wood-burning practices of residents in the seven northern counties that currently fail to…
Person: Karmazyn, Ackerly
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Outreach, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, Utah, wood smoke
Wildland fire smoke contains large amounts of PM2.5 that can traverse tens to hundreds of kilometers, resulting in significant deterioration of air quality and excess mortality and morbidity in downwind regions. Estimating PM2.5 levels while considering the impact of wildfire…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Camp Fire, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, GOES-16, wildland fire, wildfire, remote sensing, AOD - aerosol optical depth, SMOTE -Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique, random forest model, PurpleAir, air quality
Radiological release incidents can potentially contaminate widespread areas with radioactive materials and decontamination efforts are typically focused on populated areas, which means radionuclides may be left in forested areas for long periods of time. Large wildfires in…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): California
Keywords: Cesium-137, wildfires, CMAQ - Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter
Forests, though very critical for life on Earth, are threatened by various factors and the frequently occurring forest fires are one of the significant causes. Forest fires drastically contribute to climate change on both regional and global scales. Forest fires-of both natural…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: forest fire, black carbon, Himalayan glaciers, radiative perturbation, WRF - Weather Research and Forecasting, India
Warm and dry climate conditions favor the occurrence of forest fires. Forest burning leads to the discharge of large amounts of particles and trace gases that play an important role in air quality degradation and have impact on human health. To date, most…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: China, forest fire, air pollutants, greenhouse gas, EI - Emission Inventory, air quality, INFERNO - INteractive Fire and Emission algoRithm for Natural envirOnments
Increase in infected corneal ulcerations in dogs during the northern Colorado’s 2020 wildfire season
Objective
In the fall of 2020, Colorado experienced the two largest wildfires in state history. The smoke blanketed the college town of Fort Collins, Colorado, the location of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Colorado State University (CSU-VTH). The objective for this cross-…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: AQI - Air Quality Index, culture swab, intraocular pressure, microbiology, schirmer tear test, wildfire, pets
Wildland fires produce smoke plumes that impact air quality and human health. To understand the effects of wildland fire smoke on humans, the amount and composition of the smoke plume must be quantified. Using a fire emissions inventory is one way to determine…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: Bayesian statistics, air quality, wildfire smoke, 2013 Rim Fire
Climate change and human activity have increased fires in India. Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is released into the atmosphere by stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana and forest fires in the north-eastern and central areas of the country. Accurate short-term PM2.5 estimates…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire forecasting, deep learning, air pollution, LSTM - long short-term memory, India, PM2.5, fine particulate matter
Smoke from fires significantly influences climate, weather, and human health. Fire smoke is traditionally detected using an aerosol index calculated from spectral contrast changes. However, such methods usually miss thin smoke plumes. It also remains challenging…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: smoke detection, aerosol index, aerosol scattering, spectral signature, spatial standard deviation, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite
Large wildland fires generate smoke that can compromise air quality over a wide area. Limited studies have suggested that smoke constituents may enter natural water bodies. In an 18-year water monitoring study, we examined whether smoke from distant wildland fires had a…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, water quality, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, Canada, Alberta
Trace analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during wildfires is imperative for environmental and health risk assessment. The use of gas sampling devices mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to chemically sample air during wildfires is of great…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: Camp Fire, VOC - volatile organic compounds, wildfires, micro preconcentrators, environmental sampling, mobile VOC sampling
Forest fires may have beneficial effects ecologically, but can also be damaging to the overall health and diversity of flora and fauna and may also result in loss of farm produce and livelihood base of local communities living around the forest reserves. In…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire control systems, forest policy, forest fires, forest reserves, Ghana, Africa, firefighting
Fire emissions of gases and aerosols alter atmospheric composition and have substantial impacts on climate, ecosystem function, and human health. Warming climate and human expansion in fire‐prone landscapes exacerbate fire impacts and call for more effective…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: VPD - vapor pressure deficit, ocean climate indices, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, autoregression, statistical model, fire forecasting, emission prediction
Biomass burning releases a vast amount of aerosols into the atmosphere, often leading to severe air quality and health problems. Prediction of the air quality effects from biomass burning emissions is challenging due to uncertainties in fire emission, plume rise…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: air quality, biomass burning, satellite, remote sensing, Camp Fire, ensemble forecasts, HYSPLIT - Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5