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The 2019–20 Australian mega-bushfires, which raged particularly over New South Wales and Victoria, released large amounts of toxic haze and CO2. Here, we investigate whether the resulting CO2 enhancement can be directly detected by satellite observations, based…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, bushfire, megafires, satellite observations, CO2 - carbon dioxide
Fires in agricultural ecosystems emit greenhouse gases and aerosols that influence climate on multiple spatial and temporal scales. Annex 1 countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), many of which ratified the Kyoto Protocol, are required to…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: agriculture, CO2 - carbon dioxide, cropland fires, mitigation, biomass burning, satellite observations, radiative forcing, fire frequency, aerosols, air quality, greenhouse gases, remote sensing, fire management, range management, croplands
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: air quality, forecasting, satellite data
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: pollution, satellite data, Siberia
As the carbon monoxide (CO) total column over Asia is among the highest in the world, it is important to characterize its variations in space and time. Using Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) and Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (AIRS) satellite…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: Asia, CO - carbon monoxide, biomass burning, MOPITT - Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere instrument, AIRS - atmospheric infrared sounder, interannual variation, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, GFED - Global Fire Emissions Database, remote sensing, satellite data
Wildland fire emissions from both wildfires and prescribed fires represent a major component of overall U.S. emissions. Obtaining an accurate, time-resolved inventory of these emissions is important for many purposes, including to account for emissions of greenhouse gases and…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: CFIRE - Comprehensive Fire Information Reconciled Emissions, NEI - National Emissions Inventory, wildfire, remote sensing, satellite fire monitoring, satellite data, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5
We propose to validate the following products from the MODIS instrument of the EOS satellite: (1) The temporal and spatial distribution of active fires and the chronology of fire scar growth, (2) the heat released and approximate radiative energy produced as a…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Northwest, International
Keywords: aerosols, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, satellite, Africa, trace gas emissions, biomass burning, Zambia
Biomass burning is significant to emission estimates because: (1) it can be a major contributor of particulate matter and other pollutants; (2) it is one of the most poorly documented of all sources; (3) it can adversely affect human health; and (4) it has been identified as a…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest, Southwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Arizona, biomass, biomass burning, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, forest management, fuel loading, GIS, national parks, Oregon, ozone, particulates, pollution, private lands, radiation, range management, rangelands, remote sensing, smoke management, wildfires, biomass burning, remote sensing, area burned, Environmental Protection Agency, climate change, Arizona and Oregon
The science of wildland fire smoke modeling and the tools and information available are dramatically different from what they were 10 years ago. Satellite systems, computing power, social media, and investments in basic research and research delivery such as…
Person: O'Neill
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke forecasting, BlueSky Modeling Framework, satellite data, air quality
Biomass burning is a major source of aerosols that affect air quality and the Earth's radiation budget. Current estimates of biomass burning emissions vary markedly due to uncertainties in biomass density, combustion efficiency, emission factor, and burned area. This study…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Arizona, Arkansas, biomass, biomass burning, combustion, coniferous forests, cover, cover type, deciduous forests, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, grasses, grasslands, hardwood forests, heavy fuels, Idaho, leaves, litter, Louisiana, moisture, Montana, needles, Oregon, particulates, radiation, remote sensing, shrubs, statistical analysis, vegetation surveys, wildfires, biomass burning emissions, particulate matter, multiple satellite instruments, GOES, near real time
The Satellite Services Division (SSD) of NOAA*s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) processes and analyzes data from the nation*s environmental satellites and several other satellites…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: air quality, Asia, Brazil, Central America, digital data collection, droughts, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, Florida, Idaho, Indonesia, Japan, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Mexico, ozone, remote sensing, smoke behavior, South America, suppression, INFORMATION DISSEMINATION
Large land extensions are subjected to environmental degradation and land-use changes by fires annually. In tropical regions, such as South America, the global demand for commodities leads to the conversion of natural vegetation into agricultural land-uses. With the new orbital…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: South America, biomass burning, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, satellite imagery, remote sensing, GOES-R, METEOSAT, BRAMS - Brazilian Regional Atmospheric Modeling System, MERRA-2 - Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, CAMS - Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, Brazil
Plume injection height influences plume transport characteristics, such as range and potential for dilution. We evaluated plume injection height from a predictive wildland fire smoke transport model over the contiguous United States (U.S.) from 2006 to 2008 using …
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, smoke impacts, smoke modeling, aerosol, biomass burning, plume injection height, CALIPSO, MISR - Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer
Satellite remote sensing is generally the most practical way to measure aerosol amount and type frequently, over large areas. However, aerosol remote sensing is especially challenging in the polar regions, due to the combination of very bright surface, low sun…
Person: Kahn
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: remote sensing, aerosols, climate change, global warming, aerosol transport, CALIPSO
Russian boreal forests are subject to frequent wildfires. The resulting combustion of large amounts of biomass not only transforms forest vegetation, but it also creates significant carbon emissions that total, according to some authors, from 35 to 94 Mt C per year. These carbon…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forest, C - carbon, fire damage, NDVI - Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, remote sensing, carbon emissions, Russia, satellite imagery
Wildfires can lead to severe environmental consequences by releasing large amounts of particulate matter (PM) and precursors of ozone (Sandberg et al., 1999; Riebau and Fox, 2001). The Southeast has the most burned area among various U.S. regions (Stanturf et al., 2002) and has…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: fuel loading, PM - particulate matter, satellite data
Wildfires have become larger and more frequent because of climate change, increasing their impact on air pollution. Air quality forecasts and climate models do not currently account for changes in the composition of wildfire emissions during the commonly observed progression…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: air pollution, air quality, satellite data, TROPOMI - TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument
Algorithms and techniques to inform an air quality forecasting system with near real-time satellite observations have been developed, demonstrated, and validated. These techniques are generally applicable to any air quality forecasting system, and in many cases…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: air quality, forecasting
The Air Indicator Report for Public Awareness and Community Tracking v.3 (AIRPACT-3) air quality forecast model simulates EPA criteria pollutants and their precursors, providing quantitative descriptions of regional air quality in the Pacific Northwest. This study focuses on…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, NASA land cover, Earth Observation, atmospheric particles, CALIPSO, CO - carbon monoxide, forecasting
Background: In June 2008, burning peat deposits produced haze and air pollution far in excess of National Ambient Air Quality Standards, encroaching on rural communities of eastern North Carolina. Although the association of mortality and morbidity with exposure to urban air…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: cardiopulmonary, health effects, wildfire, smoke exposure, satellite data, syndromic surveillance
An overview of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) current operational Smoke Forecasting System (SFS) is presented. This system is intended as guidance to air quality forecasters and the public for fine particulate matter (≤2.5 μm) emitted from large…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke forecasting, air pollution, forest fires, wildfires, NESDIS - National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, HYSPLIT - Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory, hazard map
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
Biomass burning is a major source of many atmospheric trace gases and aerosol particles (Crutzen and Andreae 1990). These compounds and particulates affect public health, regional air quality, air chemistry, and global climate. It is difficult to assess quantitatively the impact…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: fuel treatments, Hayman Fire, wildfire, biomass, Colorado, MODIS satellite
We evaluated the accuracy of National Weather Service (NWS) Fire Weather mixing height estimates over the western United States corresponding to smoke plume events from 2006-2020. We developed a toolbox for measuring smoke-related aerosol mixing heights using Cloud-Aerosol LiDAR…
Person: Wright, Berkowitz, Liu, Mock, Weber, Nisbet-Wilcox, Ross, Toth
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: satellite, smoke
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, satellite, biomass burning