12,13, and the accumulation of fuel from previously implemented fire suppression plans4. Despite growing concern of wildfires in western North America, the ecological effects of wildfires on aquatic ecosystems remain unclear.
Significant population growth has occurred in recent decades along the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI; the zone where human structures and wildland intersect), exacerbating the risk of fire and smoke exposure (Peterson et al., 2021). These trends highlight the need to identify health risk ...
Forests are invaluable resources, and fire is a natural process that is considered an integral part of the forest ecosystem. Although fire offers several ecological benefits, its frequent occurrence in different parts of the world has raised concerns in
The market is further propelled by the expansion of the commercial realty and IT industries, which require robust fire safety measures to protect valuable assets. Despite challenges such as installation complications, the market is benefiting from trends like smartphone connectivity and IoT integration, ...
BlueSky (BS): The BlueSky Western Canada Wildfire Smoke Forecasting Framework (http://firesmoke.ca) uses current data to generate hourly forecasts of PM2.5 concentrations from forest fires up to 60 h in advance with a spatial resolution of 4 km. Like FireWork, it is a complex forecasting sys...
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populations after long-distance transport of the particles. The 2002 Quebec forest fires in Canada significantly increased average PM2.5levels during hazy days to 53 μg/m3from 21.5 μg/m3on clear days in the United States. Compared with the clear days, the rate of hospitalizations for ...
Pollution from wildfires constitutes a growing source of poor air quality globally. To protect health, governments largely rely on citizens to limit their own wildfire smoke exposures, but the effectiveness of this strategy is hard to observe. Using data from private pollution sensors, cell phones,...
Canada wildfires in 2014 and 2017, California fire in 2020, and Bolivia fire in 2010. The vast areas of Amazon rainforests frequently burn due to wildfire. Thus, we have also covered wildfires that occurred in Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru in the year 2019. The use of the MODIS sat...
Keywords Emissions · Fire behavior · Fuels · Health effects · Smoke chemistry · Smoke plume · Smoke management · Wildland fire 1.1 Recent Trends Data from the National Interagency Fire Center show that annual area burned by wildfires in the USA has increased in recent decades (NIFC 2021)...