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We present a study focusing on detection and initial quantitative estimates of ethylene (C2H4) in observations from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES), a Fourier transform spectrometer aboard the Aura satellite that measures thermal infrared radiances…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence
Region(s): California
Keywords: biomass burning, flame length, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, hydrocarbons, ozone, remote sensing, fire management, Ethylene, Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer, satellite remote sensing
This study explored the use of satellite data to monitor carbon monoxide (CO) and particulate matter (PM) in Northern Thailand during the dry season when forest fires are known to be an important cause of air pollution. Satellite data, including…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, particulates, pollution, remote sensing, Thailand, Asia, fire management, forest management, smoke management, satellite data, ground monitoring, PM10, northern Thailand, forest fire
A statistical model, based on numerical weather prediction (NWP), is developed to predict the subsequent day's satellite observations of fire activity in the North American boreal forest during the fire season (24-h forecast). In conjunction with the six…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire weather, satellite, statistics, wildfire, numerical weather prediction, fire danger rating, season of fire, air quality, remote sensing, fire management, smoke management
As the climate in California warms and wildfires become larger and more severe, satellite-based observational tools are frequently used for studying impact of those fires on air quality. However little objective work has been done to quantify the skill these…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): California
Keywords: autoregressive, PM2.5, satellite imagery, exceptional event, air pollution standards, NOAA Hazard Mapping System, wildfires, air quality, particulates, pollution, remote sensing, Sierra Nevada, fire management, smoke management
Current fire emission inventories apply universal emission factors (EFs) for the calculation of NOx emissions over large biomes such as boreal forest. However, recent satellite-based studies over tropical and subtropical regions have indicated spatio-temporal…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, Asia, Europe, Canada, radiation, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, smoke management, boreal forests, satellite measurements, Tropospheric No2, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, NOx emission factor
Wildfires and other types of biomass burning are a seasonal phenomenon in different land ecosystems around the world. Such fires are estimated to consume biomass containing a total of 2-5 petagrams of carbon globally every year, generating heat energy and emitting smoke plumes…
Person: Ichoku
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: FRE - Fire Radiative Energy, biomass, PM - particulate matter, air quality, black carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, remote sensing, emission factor, satellite observations
In the western U.S., smoke from wild and prescribed fires can severely degrade air quality. Due to changes in climate and land management, wildfires have increased in frequency and severity, and this trend is expected to continue. Consequently, wildfires are expected to become…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Washington, wildfires, exposure, satellites, smoke exposure, air pollution, regression models, PM2.5, WRF-Chem
Wildfires negatively affect the atmosphere and ecological environment. The rapid identification of smoke is helpful for early fire detection and positioning, which are significant for fire early warning, fire point tracing, and atmospheric environment monitoring. The purpose of…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke detection, concentration, inversion, Mahalanobis distance, fire detection, fire positioning, satellite imagery
Forest fires have major impact on ecosystems and greatly impact the amount of greenhouse gases and aerosols in the atmosphere. This paper presents an overview in the forest fire detection, emission estimation, and fire risk prediction in China using satellite…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, aerosols, biomass, climate change, greenhouse gases, moisture, remote sensing, vegetation surveys, China, Asia, fire management, forest management, forest fire detection, fire emission estimation, forest fire risk model, satellite remote sensing, China
Landscape fires occur on a large scale in (sub)tropical savannas and grasslands, affecting ecosystem dynamics, regional air quality and concentrations of atmospheric trace gasses. Fuel consumption per unit of area burned is an important but poorly constrained parameter in fire…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: South America, Africa, Australia, biomass burning, fuel consumption, satellite, area burned, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, SEVIRI - Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager, spatial patterns, wildfires, remote sensing, fire management, fuel management, range management, grasslands, savannas
Emissions of aerosols and trace gases from wildfires and their direct shortwave radiative forcing (DSRF) at the top of atmosphere (TOA) were studied using satellite observations from Moderate‐Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Atmospheric Infrared…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): California, International
Keywords: Siberia, satellite remote sensing, wildfires, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, emission rate, direct shortwave radiative forcing, China
A new dataset of emissions of trace gases and particles resulting from biomass burning has been developed for the historical and the recent period (1900-2005). The purpose of this work is to provide a consistent gridded emissions dataset of atmospheric chemical species from 1900…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, biomass, biomass burning, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, cover, ENSO, fire management, gases, mosaic, particulates, remote sensing, savannas, tropical forests, wildfires, climate change, gases, particles, biomass burning, burnt areas, historical, satellite
Biomass burning is an important source of atmospheric greenhouse gases and aerosols, and its emissions can be estimated using Fire Radiative Power (FRP) retrievals from polar-orbiting and geostationary satellites. Accurate and timely estimation of biomass-…
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Year: 2019
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: biomass burning, PM2.5, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, GOES - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
The multiannual variability of wildfire areas and volumes of emissions of carbon components (CO, CO2) and aerosol (PM2.5) caused by wildfires has been analyzed for the large Russian regions over a 20-year period (from 2001 to 2020) on the basis of satellite…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: satellite monitoring, Russia, remote sensing, wildfires, carbon components of gas, C - carbon, aerosols, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, CO - carbon monoxide, CO2 - carbon dioxide
In 2002, an enormous amount of smoke has been emitted from Yakutsk wildfires. In this study, we examine the impact of smoke on cloud properties and precipitation associated with frontal systems using the WRF-Chem-SMOKE model and satellite data. The smoke…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Yakutsk, WRF-Chem, satellite data, Russia, organic matter, black carbon, clouds, biomass burning, aerosols
Wildfire smoke influences on air quality and atmospheric chemistry have been underscored by the increasing fire prevalence in recent years, and yet, the connection between fire, smoke emissions, and the subsequent transformation of this smoke in the atmosphere remains poorly…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: aerosol, FIREX‐AQ - Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality, remote sensing, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, in situ monitoring, wildfire, satellite observations, gas emissions
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: air quality, forecasting, satellite
Evaluating the influence of observed daily weather on observed fire-related effects (e.g. smoke production, carbon emissions and burn severity) often involves knowing exactly what day any given area has burned. As such, several studies have used fire progression maps - in which…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: fire intensity, smoke effects, wildfires, C - carbon, remote sensing, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Washington, fire management, forest management, fire progression maps, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, spatial interpolation, fire progression, satellite
Space-borne observations are used to characterize the fate of formaldehyde and glyoxal in wildfire plumes. Their distribution measured by the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument reveals striking differences between the two compounds near intense fires. In typical situations, the…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: glyoxal, atmosphere, wildfires, pyrocumulonimbus, formaldehyde, satellite measurements
Several bog fires in the Florida Everglades in the spring of 1974 created a great deal of acrid smoke which was advected northward and reduced visibilities at many locations, including Patrick AFB. A subsidence inversion and low-level southwesterly flow combined on 1 May to send…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: bogs, brush, central Florida, everglades, fire case histories, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, military lands, photography, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, weather observations, wildfires, wind
Durative haze clouds with unusual yellow color appeared in East China in agricultural burning period during June 8-12 in 2012, causing extreme air pollution in densely populated regions including Jiangsu, Hubei, and the Yangtze River Delta. The spatial variation, vertical…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: cropland fires, aerosols, agriculture, air quality, pollution, remote sensing, China, Asia, fire management, range management, croplands, yellow haze, agricultural burning, satellite, dust transport, East China
Significant uncertainties are incurred in deriving various quantities related to biomass burning from satellite measurements at different scales, and, in general, the coarser the resolution of observation the larger the uncertainty. Uncertainties associated with…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, emission estimates, biomass burning, uncertainty, Northern Sub-Saharan Africa, regional, satellite, measurement
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, satellite
In this study, atmospheric dynamical processes, which govern the intensification of wildfire activity and the associated increase in low-level ozone concentrations, were studied using images, advanced products and vertical profiles derived from satellite…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: stratospheric intrusions, wildfires, O3 - ozone, ozone concentrations, satellite observations, water vapor imagery, Croatia, Italy
Stratospheric injections of carbonaceous aerosols and combustion gases by extreme wildfires have become increasingly common. Recent “megafires,” particularly large and intense fires, delivered particulate burdens to the lower stratosphere comparable to those of moderate volcanic…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, Australia, megafires, pyrocumulonimbus clouds, stratospheric intrusions, wildfires, satellite observations, stratospheric injections, smoke plumes, Community Earth System Model, GEOS5 - Goddard Earth Observing System-Version 5