Regional and Global Landscape Fire Emissions
Near-Real-Time Observations, Forecasting and Modeling
- Regional SE Asia Smoke-Haze Map (with surface winds and fire activity information)
- Hazetracker Singapore (with surface winds and fire activity information)
- CAMS Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS) data documentation
- Global Fire Data (GFED) (Combined satellite information on fire activity and vegetation productivity to estimate gridded monthly burned area and fire emissions)
- Emissions of Atmospheric Compounds: Compilation of Ancillary Data (ECCAD) A database of emissions and ancillary data
- Global Aerosol Index by Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS)
- NOAA Interim Smoke Forecasting Tool(access and display of meteorological data and running trajectory and dispersion model products)
- NOAA Hazard Mapping System (HMS) Fire and Smoke Product (U.S.A.) (a real-time display of the locations of fires and significant smoke plumes detected by meteorological satellites)
- Fire Locating and Modeling of Burning Emissions (FLAMBE’) Project
- Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction (NAAPS) System
- Real-time Monitoring of the Transport of Biomass Burning Emissions and Anthropogenic Pollution in South America
- Real-Time Global Visibility (Including Haze and Smoke Generated by Vegetation Fires)
- Regional SE Asia Smoke-Haze Map (with surface winds and fire activity information)
- NASA Earth Observatory maps (fires, aerosol, sea surface temperature, rainfall, etc.)
- Global Chemical Weather Forecast (3-days run for surface ozone and PM10)
- Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED)
- The Wildland Fire Emissions Information System (WFEIS) (currently for the U.S.A. only)
- Piled Fuels Biomass and Emissions Calculator
- AirVisual Node: An monitor for personal indoor and outdoor air pollution monitoring with. AirVisual monitors and forecasts air quality for more than 8,000 locations around the world. There are still many places that lack local air quality monitoring stations. By placing your Node outdoors under protected, shaded areas, you can become an air quality data source for your local community.
- IS4FIRES+SILAM (System for Integrated modeLling of Atmospheric coMposition)
- Fire activity analyses: Fire radiative power (provided by the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service)
Websites and Newsletters
- Biomass Burning Experiment (BIBEX)
- Global Emissions Inventory Activity (GEIA)
- Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study (iLEAPS)
- Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)
- South America Regional Atmospheric Modeling System
Publications on Interactions between Vegetation Fire Emissions, Atmosphere and Climate
- Global burned area product for climate assessment of fire impacts (Global Ecology and Biogeography, March 2016) (PDF, 1.1 MB)
- Large unexplained suite of chemically reactive compounds present in ambient air due to biomass fires (Scientific Reports 2018) (PDF, 81.8 MB)
- Global Wildland Fire Emission Model (GWEM): Evaluating the use of global area burnt satellite data (J. Geophysical Research 109, 2004, D14S04; PDF, 700 KB)
- Global Estimate of Emissions From Wildland Fires and Other Biomass Burning (Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol. 15, No. 4, 2001; PDF)
- The IGAC Biomass Burning Experiment (BIBEX) (IGACtivities Newsletter No. 15, December 1998) (PDF, 10.3 MB)
- Smoking Rain Clouds over the Amazon(SCIENCE Vol. 303, 27 February 2004, pp. 1337-1342; PDF, 0.5 MB)
- Domestic Combustion of Biomass Fuels in Developing Countries: A Major Source of Atmospheric Pollutants (J. of Atmospheric Chemistry 44, 2003; PDF, 130 KB)
- Comments on Domestic Combustion of Biomass Fuels in Developing Countries (Nature 423, 2003; PDF, 114 KB)
- Transport of biomass burning Smoke to the upper troposphere by deep convection in the equatorial region (Geophys. Res. Letters 28, 2001; PDF)
- The Subtropical Global Plume in PEM-T A, PEM-T B, and GASP: How Tropical Emissions Affect the Remote Pacific (PDF)
- A Satellite View of Aerosols in the Climate System (PDF)
- International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Project volume “Integration and Synthesis”, draft Chapter 2: Biosphere/Atmosphere Interactions (with sub-chapter 2.2 “Biomass Burning”) (PDF)
- International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Project volume “Integration and Synthesis”
- Wildland fire in ecosystems: Effects of fire on air (USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Report, 2002; PDF)
- The Quest for Fire: Hazards of a Daily Struggle (PDF, 99 KB)
- Residential Biofuels in South Asia: Carbonaceous Aerosol Emissions and Climate Impacts (PDF, 155 KB)
- Global Monitoring and Forecasting of Biomass-Burning Smoke: Description of and Lessons From the Fire Locating and Modeling of Burning Emissions (FLAMBE) Program (by J.S. Reid et al., 2009) (PDF, 2 MB)
- Assessing variability and long-term trends in burned area by merging multiple satellite fire products (Biogeosciences 7, 2010; PDF, 1.8 MB)
- Biomass Sustainability and Carbon Policy Study by Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences (Massachusetts) (10 June 2010) Short Press Release (PDF, 0.2 MB) and full report“Biomass Sustainability and Carbon Policy Study” (PDF, 5 MB)
- Towards assessing fire feedbacks in the Earth system: Global process-based fire modelingg (by S. Kloster, 2010) (PDF, 0.7 MB)
- Global fire emissions and the contribution of deforestation, savanna, forest, agricultural, and peat fires (19972009) (by Guido van der Werf et al., 2010)
- Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Module VMD0013 Estimation of greenhouse gas emissions from biomass and peat burning (EBPB) (PDF, 0.4 MB)
- Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Module VMD0046 Methods for monitoring of soil carbon stock changes and greenhouse gas emissions and removals in peatland rewetting and conservation project activities (M-PEAT) (PDF, 0.4 MB)
Publications on Impacts of Vegetation Fire Emissions on Health and Safety of Wildland Firefighters and the Public
- Health Guidelines for Vegetation Fire Events (Guideline Document) (WHO, 1999; PDF, 0.9 MB)
- Vegetation Fire Smoke: Nature, Impacts and Policies to Reduce Negative Consequences on Humans and the Environment (A Publication of ECFF, GFMC and the Council of Europe, 2007; (PDF, 1 MB)
- Wildfire Smoke: Guide for Public Health Officials (revised 2008) (U.S.A.; PDF, 1.4 MB)
- Canadian Wildland Fire and Smoke Newsletter (formerly Canadian Smoke Newsletter, then hosted by the Lung Association, Saskatchewan, Canada)
- Smoke-Haze Pollution: A Review of the 1997 Episode in Southeast Asia (Regional Env. Changes, Vol. 2, 2001; PDF)
- Bushfires, air pollution and asthma (Editorial, The Medical Journal of Australia, 3 June 2002, 176 (11), 517)
- Exposure to bushfire smoke and asthma: an ecological study (The Medical Journal of Australia, 3 June 2002; 176 (11), 535-538)
- Emissions of organic air toxics from open burning: a comprehensive review (Progress in Energy and Combustion Science 30, 2004) (PDF, 0.6 MB)
- Smoke Exposure at Western Wildfires (U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Research Paper PNW-RP-525, July 2000; PDF, 3.7 MB)
- Smoke Exposure Among Firefighters at Prescribed Burns in the Pacific Northwest (U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Research Paper PNW-RP-526, October 2000; PDF, 0.4MB)
- Burning wood for fuel could kill 10 million Africans (SciDev.Netnote, 2005; PDF, 13 KB)
- The Australian smoke management forecast system (PDF, 7 MB)
- Wildland firefighter health risks and respiratory protection (2008): (by Claire Austin 2008, courtesy Claire Austin and IRSST www.irsst.qc.ca; PDF, 1.5 MB)
- English version: http://www.irsst.qc.ca/files/documents/PubIRSST/R-572.pdf
- French version: http://www.irsst.qc.ca/files/documents/PubIRSST/R-571.pdf
- The effects of bushfire smoke on respiratory health (Respirology, 2011; PDF, 0.4 MB)
- Woodsmoke Health Effects: A Review (Inhalation Toxicology, 2007; PDF, 2.1 MB)
- Satellite-Based Estimates of Ground-Level Fine Particulate Matter, Moscow 2010 (Atmospheric Environment, 2011; PDF, 1.5. MB)
- Estimated Global Mortality Attributable to Smoke from Landscape Fires (Env. Health Perspectives, 2012; PDF, 1.0 MB)
- Supplementary Materials to Estimated Global Mortality Attributable to Smoke from Landscape Fires (Env. Health Perspectives, 2012; PDF, 1.1 MB)
- U.S. National Library of Medicine, Disaster Information Management Research Center – Fires and Wildfires: Health Information Guide
- Vegetation Fire Smoke Emissions and Human Health (Chapter 18 in White Paper “Vegetation Fires and Global Change”, 2013) (PDF, 0.2 MB)
- The contribution of outdoor air pollution sources to premature mortality on a global scale (Research Letter, Nature, 2015) (PDF, 3.7 MB)
- Critical Review of Health Impacts of Wildfire Smoke Exposure (Environ Health Perspective, 2016) (PDF, 0.5 MB)
- Public health impacts of the severe haze in Equatorial Asia in September–October 2015 (Environmental Research Letters, 2016) (PDF, 2.2 MB)
- Smoke in a New Era of Fire (USDA Forest Service Science Update, 2017) (PDF, 3.2 MB)
- Vegetation Fire and Smoke Pollution Warning and Advisory System (VFSP-WAS): Concept Note and Expert Recommendations (WMO GAW Report No. 235, 2018) (PDF, 3.3 MB)
- Wildland Fire Smoke in the United States. A Scientific Assessment (US Forest Service; Springer 2022) (10 MB)
References
- References Relating to Aerosols and Atmospheric Transport over Southern Africa
- Joint Fire Smoke Science Plan of the US Department of Interior and US Department of Agriculture (2010) (PDF, 2.1 MB)
