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Technical Reports/White Papers

Publications

2024

Active Fire Clustering and Spatiotemporal Dynamic Models for Forest Fire Management
Hatef Dastour et al.
Wildfire smoke impacts lake ecosystems
Mary Jade Farruggia et al.
Forest Smoke-Fire Net (FSF Net): A Wildfire Smoke Detection Model That Combines MODIS Remote Sensing Images with Regional Dynamic Brightness Temperature Thresholds
Yunhong Ding et al.
Letter from Canada: global warming and wildfire smoke pollution emerging as major threats to respiratory health
Allison Michaud et al.
Ingesting GOES-16 fire radiative power retrievals into Warn-on-Forecast System for Smoke (WoFS-Smoke)
Thomas Jones et al.

2023

Summary of PM2.5 measurement artifacts associated with the Teledyne T640 PM Mass Monitor under controlled chamber experimental conditions using polydisperse ammonium sulfate aerosols and biomass smoke
Russell W. Long et al.
Camera traps link population-level activity patterns with wildfire smoke events for mammals in Eastern Washington State
J. Ayars et al.
Evaluating the potential role of federal air quality standards in constraining applications of prescribed fire in the western United States
Christopher Bone et al.
Atmospheric turbulence and wildland fires: a review
Warren Heilman

2022

Evaluating satellite fire detection products and an ensemble approach for estimating burned area in the United States
Amy Marsha et al.
Statistical comparison and assessment of four fire emissions inventories for 2013 and a large wildfire in the western United States
Sam D. Faulstich et al.

2021

Statistical downscaling with spatial misalignment: application to wildland fire PM2.5 concentration forecasting
Suman Majumder et al.
Predicting wildfire particulate matter and hypothetical re-emission of radiological Cs-137 contamination incidents
Kirk R. Baker et al.
High-flying wildfire smoke poses potential threat to ozone layer
Paul Voosen
Short-term impacts of 2017 western North American wildfires on meteorology, the atmosphere's energy budget, and premature mortality
Diana N. Bernstein et al.
Comparison of ozone measurement methods in biomass burning smoke: An evaluation under field and laboratory conditions
Russell W. Long et al.
Full-scale video-based detection of smoke from forest fires combining ViBe and MSER algorithms
Yu Gao et al.
Evaluation of small form factor, filter-based PM2.5 samplers for temporary non-regulatory monitoring during wildland fire smoke events
Jonathan Krug et al.

2020

Mortality associated with wildfire smoke exposure in Washington state, 2006-2017: a case-crossover study
Annie Doubleday et al.
3D video semantic segmentation for wildfire smoke
Guodong Zhu et al.
Tamm review: The effects of prescribed fire on wildfire regimes and impacts: A framework for comparison
Molly E. Hunter et al.
Estimation of local daily PM2.5 concentration during wildfire episodes: integrating MODIS AOD with multivariate linear mixed effect (LME) models
Mojgan Mirzaei et al.
AQVx - an interactive visual display system for air pollution and public health
Grant J. Williamson et al.
Quantifying how sources of uncertainty in combustible biomass propagate to prediction of wildland fire emissions
Maureen C. Kennedy et al.
Wildfire and prescribed burning impacts on air quality in the United States
Daniel A. Jaffe et al.
Smoke in the Great Plains, USA: an increasing phenomenon with potential policy and health implications
Heath D. Starns et al.
Quantification of organic aerosol and brown carbon evolution in fresh wildfire plumes
Brett B. Palm et al.

2019

Will landscape fire increase in the future? A systems approach to climate, fire, fuel, and human drivers
Karen L. Riley et al.
Wildland firefighter smoke exposure and risk of lung cancer and cardiovascular disease mortality
Kathleen M. Navarro et al.
Associations between respiratory health and ozone and fine particulate matter during a wildfire event
Colleen Reid et al.
A statistical model for predicting PM2.5 for the western United States
Amy Marsha et al.
Accessing the life in smoke: a new application of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to sample wildland fire bioaerosol emissions and their environment
Leda N. Kobziar et al.
An examination of fuel moisture, energy release and emissions during laboratory burning of live wildland fuels
Nathaniel W. May et al.
A Multipollutant Smoke Emissions Sensing and Sampling Instrument Package for Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Development and Testing
Kellen N. Nelson et al.
The impact of wildfires on particulate carbon in the western U.S.A
Weeberb J. Requia et al.
A dataset on human perception of and response to wildfire smoke
Mariah Fowler et al.
Machine learning models accurately model ozone exposure during wildfire events
Gregory L. Watson et al.
Fire behaviour and smoke modelling: model improvement and measurement needs for next-generation smoke research and forecasting systems
Yongqiang Liu et al.
Measuring light absorption by freshly emitted organic aerosols: Optical artifacts in traditional solvent-extraction-based methods
Nishit J. Shetty et al.
Machine learning models accurately predict ozone exposure during wildfire events
Gregory L. Watson et al.
Association between fire smoke fine particulate matter and asthma-related outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis
Nicolas Borchers-Arriagada et al.
Wildfire Smoke: A Guide for Public Health Officials
Susan Lyon Stone

2018

Scientists aim to smoke out wildfire impacts
Warren Cornwall
Can air quality management drive sustainable fuels management at the temperate wildland-urban interface?
David M. J. S. Bowman et al.
A numerical study of atmospheric perturbations induced by heat from a wildland fire: sensitivity to vertical canopy structure and heat source strength
Michael T. Kiefer et al.
Carbon cycle and climate effects of forcing from fire-emitted aerosols
Jean-Sebastien Landry et al.
Quantifying wildfire growth rates using smoke plume observations derived from weather radar
Thomas J. Duff et al.
Wildfire smoke cools summer river and stream water temperatures
Aaron T. David et al.
The health impacts and economic value of wildland fire episodes in the U.S.: 2008-2012
Neal L. Fann et al.
Optimizing smoke and plume rise modeling approaches at local scales
Derek V. Mallia et al.
The impact of US wildland fires on ozone and particulate matter: a comparison of measurements and CMAQ model predictions from 2008 to 2012
Joseph L. Wilkins et al.
Contiguous United States wildland fire emission estimates during 2003-2015
Shawn P. Urbanski et al.
Wildland fire smoke and human health
Wayne E. Cascio
Developing an online tool for identifying at-risk populations to wildfire smoke hazards
Ambarish Vaidyanathan et al.

2017

Aligning smoke management with ecological and public health goals
Jonathan Long et al.
Application of an original wildfire smoke health cost benefits transfer protocol to the western US, 2005-2015
Benjamin A. Jones et al.
Wildfire smoke exposure and human health: significant gaps in research for a growing public health issue
Carolyn Black et al.
A multi-region analysis of factors that influence public acceptance of smoke from different fire sources
Christine Olsen et al.
Effectiveness of public health messaging and communication channels during smoke events: a rapid systematic review
Jennifer A. Fish et al.
Social media approaches to modeling wildfire smoke dispersion: spatiotemporal and social scientific investigations
Sonya Sachdeva et al.
Emissions from prescribed burning of agricultural fields in the Pacific Northwest
Amara L. Holder et al.
Airborne measurements of western U.S. wildfire emissions: Comparison with prescribed burning and air quality implications
Xiaoxi Liu et al.
Public use of information about smoke emissions: application of the risk information seeking and processing (RISP) model
Kathleen M. Rose et al.

2016

Toward an integrated system for fire, smoke and air quality simulations
Adam K. Kochanski et al.
Particulate air pollution from wildfires in the western US under climate change
Jia Coco Liu et al.
Forest fire policy: change conventional thinking of smoke management to prioritize long-term air quality and public health
D.W. Schweizer et al.
Air-quality impacts and intake fraction of PM2.5 during the 2013 Rim Megafire
Kathleen M. Navarro et al.
Non-deforestation fire vs. fossil fuel combustion: the source of CO2 emissions affects the global carbon cycle and climate responses
Jean-Sebastien Landry et al.
Characterizing public tolerance of smoke from wildland fires in communities across the United States
Jesse M. Engebretson et al.

2015

Wildfire smoke and public health risk
Fabienne Reisen et al.
A case study comparison of LANDFIRE fuel loading and emissions on a mixed conifer forest in northern Idaho, USA
Joshua C. Hyde et al.
Determination of the smoke-plume heights and their dynamics with ground-based scanning LIDAR
Vladimir A. Kovalev et al.

2014

Perverse incentives: the case of wildfire smoke regulation
Kirsten H. Engel
Smoke management of wildland and prescribed fire: understanding public preferences and trade-offs
Jarod Blades et al.
The climate-wildfire-air quality system: interactions and feedbacks across spatial and temporal scales
E. Natasha Stavros et al.

2013

Fuel moisture influences on fire-altered carbon in masticated fuels: an experimental study
Nolan W. Brewer et al.
Wildfire smoke and health impacts: a closer look at fire attributes and their marginal effects
K. Moeltner et al.
Gas-particle partitioning of primary organic aerosol emissions: 3. Biomass burning
Andrew A. May et al.
Combustion efficiency and emission factors for wildfire-season fires in mixed conifer forests of the northern Rocky Mountains, US
Shawn P. Urbanski

2011

The wildland fire emission inventory: western United States emission estimates and an evaluation of uncertainty
Shawn P. Urbanski et al.
Emissions of air pollutants by Canadian wildfires from 2000 to 2004
David Lavoue et al.

2010

The validity and utility of MODIS data for simple estimation of area burned and aerosols emitted by wildfire events
Sarah B. Henderson et al.
The economic cost of adverse health effects from wildfire: a review
Ikuho Kochi et al.

2009

A MODIS direct broadcast algorithm for mapping wildfire burned area in the western United States
Shawn P. Urbanski et al.

2005

Acceptability of smoke from prescribed forest burning in the northern inland west: a focus group approach
Brad R. Weisshaupt et al.
Simple algorithm to determine the near-edge smoke boundaries with scanning lidar
Vladimir A. Kovalev et al.

1996

Open-path Fourier transform infrared studies of large-scale laboratory biomass fires
Robert J. Yokelson et al.

1994

Comparisons of particulate-emissions and smoke impacts from presettlement, full suppression, and prescribed natural fire period in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness
James K. Brown et al.

1988

Ammonia emissions from biomass burning
Dean A. Hegg et al.
Airborne measurements on smokes from biomass burning
Lawrence F. Radke et al.

1971

Fire and smoke in Montana forests
William R. Beaufait