Wildland fire emissions and visibility impacts in the Western United States

EM: Air and Waste Management Association's Magazine for Environmental Managers

Volumn , Issue SEPT., 2007, Pages 18-22

  Randall, Dave ^a  

^a Air Sciences Inc   (United States)

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EID: 42449085071     PISSN: 10889981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
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References (12)

1. 1995 Fire Policy; National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), Boise, Idaho, December 1995. See www.nifc.gov/policies/1995_fire__policy.htm.
2. Westerling, A.L.; Hidalgo, H.G.; Cayan, D.R.; Swetnam, T.W. Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity; Science 2006, 313 (5789); 940-943; DOI: 10.1126/science.1128834; available at www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/313/5789/940.
3. Western Regional Air Partnership-Fire Emissions Joint Forum Workplan; Western Regional Air Partnership, Denver, CO, February 1999. See www.wrapair.org/forums/rejf/documents/group_reports/Wkp10225.pdf.
4. Development of 2000-04 Baseline Period and 2018 Projection Year Emission Inventories; Project No. 178-8. Conducted by Air Sciences Inc. for Western Regional Air Partnership, Denver, CO, May 2007. See www.wrapair.org/ forums/fejf/documents/task7/Phase3-4EI/WRAP_Fire_Ph3-4_EI_Report_20070515.pdf.
5. 2002 Fire Emission Inventory for the WRAP Region - Phase II. Conducted by Air Sciences Inc. for Western Regional Air Partnership, Denver, CO, July 2005. See www.wrapair.org/forums/fejf/documents/ WRAP_2002_PhII_EI_Report_20050722.pdf.
6. Regional Haze Regulations; Final Rule, 40 CFR Part 51 (July I, 1999). See www.epa.gov/ttn/oarpg/tl/fr_notices/rhfedreg.pdf.
7. TSS Analysis Results, 2006; WRAP Technical Support System, Western Regional Air Partnership, Denver, CO. See http://vista.cira.colostate.edu/TSS/ ResuIts/Monitoring.aspx.
8. Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) is a statistical method that identifies a user-specified number of source profiles (i.e., relative composition particle species for each source) and source strengths for each sample period that reduce the difference between measured and PMF fitted mass concentration. See www.coha.dri.edu/web/general/ PMF%20modeling%20for%20WRAP%20COHA.pdf.
9. Small Fire Base A 2002 Sensitivity Scenarios; (12k CMAQ results); Regional Modeling Center, University of California, Riverside, March 2006. See http://pah.cert.ucr.edu/aqm/308/cmaq.shtinl.
10. The deciview is a visibility metric based on the light-extinction coefficient that expresses incremental changes in perceived visibility. See http://vista. cira.colostate.edu/improve/Tools/ReconBext/reconBext.htm.
11. Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE). See http://vista.cira.colostate.edu/improve/Tools/ReconBext/recon-Bext.htm.
12. Enhanced Smoke Management Program Policy; Western Regional Air Partnership, Denver, CO, November 2002. See www.wrapair.org/forums/fejf/ documents/esmptt/policy/030115_ESMP_Policy.pdf.