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Activity fuels
Adiabatic lapse rate
Advection
Aerial ignition
Aerosol
Aethalometer
Agricultural Air Quality Task Force (AAQTF)
Agricultural burning
Air curtain destructor (ACD)
Air mass
Air pollution
Air quality
Air Quality Index (AQI)
Air Quality Related Value (AQRV)
Air Resources Information System (ARIS)
Air Quality System (AQS)
Air toxics
AirFire
AIRNow
Allowable emissions
Alternatives to burning
Ambient air
Ambient Air Monitoring Group (AAMG)
Ambient Monitoring Technology Information Center (AMTIC)
AP 42
Appropriate Management Response (AMR)
Area Source
Atmospheric inversion
Atmospheric pressure
Atmospheric stability
Attainment
Attribution of Haze (AoH)
Avoidance
Background level
Basic Smoke Management Practices (BSMP)
Benefits
Best Available Control Measures (BACM)
Best Available Control Technologies (BACT)
Best Available Retrofit Technologies (BART)
Beta Ray Attenuation Monitor (BAM)
Black line
BlueSky
Branch of Air Quality (BAQ)
Breeze, Land
Breeze, Sea
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Burn severity
Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) team
California Air Resources Board (CARB or ARB)
California Air Response Planning Alliance (CARPA)
California and Nevada Smoke and Air Committee (CANSAC)
CALPUFF
CAMx
Carbon monoxide (CO)
Carcinogen
Categorical Exclusions (CEs)
Central States Air Resources Agencies (CenSARA)
Class 1 Area (CIA)
Clean Air Act (CAA)
Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR)
Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC)
Combustion efficiency
Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ)
Condensation nuclei
Consume
Consumption
Containment
Convection column
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
Criteria Pollutants
DATARAM
De minimis value
Deciview
Department of the Interior (DOI)
Dew point temperature
Dichotomous sampler
Dispersion
Dormant season burning
Drift smoke
Dry-bulb temperature
Dry adiabatic lapse rate (DALR)
Duff
Eastern Area Modeling Consortium (EAMC)
Ecosystem health
Ecosystem Processes
Electric Generating Unit (EGU)
Emission factor (EF)
Emission inventory (EI)
Emission rate
Emission reduction technique (ERT)
Emission standards
Emissions tracking system (ETS)
Enhanced Smoke Management Programs (ESMP)
Effective windspeed
Environmental Assessments (EA)
Environmental Impact Statements (EIS)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
EPA Support Center for Regulatory Atmospheric Modeling (SCRAM)
Exceptional Events Rule (EER)
Extinction
Extinction Coefficient
Federal Implementation Plan (FIP)
Federal Land Managers and Air Quality Related Values Work Group (FLAG)
Federal Reference Method Monitor (FRM monitor)
Federal Equivalent method (FEM)
Federal Responsibility Area (FRA)
Fine Fuel Moisture
Fine Particulate Matter (PMFINE)
Fire adapted Ecosystem
Fire Consortia for the Advanced Modeling of Meteorology and Smoke (FCAMMS)
Fire dependent
Fire dependent ecosystem
Fire Emission Production Simulator (FEPS)
Fire Emissions Tracking System (FETS)
Fire Environment Working Team (FENWT)
Fire exclusion
Fire Management
Fire Management Plan (FMP)
Fire regime
Fire regime groups
Fire return interval
Fire use
Fireline intensity
First Order Fire effects Model (FOFEM)
Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
Flaming combustion
Forest Floor material
Forest residue
Forest Service
Forest Service Research and Development (FS R&D)
Formaldehyde
Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS)
Fuel loading
Fuel moisture content
Fuel reduction
Fuel size class
Fuel treatment
Fuel type
Fumigation
Glowing combustion phase
Gravimetric Monitoring
Growing season burning
Hazard reduction
Haze
Heat Release Rate
Hydrocarbons
IMPROVE sampler
Incident Command / Unified Command (IC/UC)
Incident command system (ICS)
Incident Management Team (IMT)
Incident Objectives
Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE)
Interagency Workgroup on Air Quality Monitoring (IWAQM)
Inversion
Isothermal layer
Jet Stream
Keetch-Byram Dispersion Index (KBDI)
Lake Michigan Air Directors Consortium (LADCO)
Lapse rate
Litter
Maintenance burn
Mass fire
Mean fire interval
Micron
Midwest Regional Planning Organization (MRPO)
Milligram per meters cubed (µg/m3)
Mixing Height
Mixing layer
Mobile Source
Mop up
Mosaic
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)
National Association of Clean Air Agencies (NACAA)
National Emissions Inventory (NEI)
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
National Fire and Aviation Executive Board.
National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS)
National Interagency Fuels Coordination Group (NIFCG)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Park Service (NPS)
National Tribal Air Association (NTAA)
National Tribal Environmental Council (NTEC)
National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG)
Natural background condition
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
Nephelometer
New Source Review (NSR) program
Nitrogen Oxides (NOx)
Non-attainment
Northwest Regional Modeling Consortium (NWRMC)
Nuisance smoke
Office of Air and Radiation (OAR)
Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS)
Office of General Counsel (OGC)
Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology (OFCM)
One-hour timelag fuels
One-hundred-hour timelag fuels
Optical Monitoring
Oxides of Nitrogen (NOx)
Ozone (O3)
Ozone sampling
Passive Ozone Sampling
Part per million (ppm)
Particulate matter coarse (PMC)
Passive ozone sampling
Peat soil
Photochemical reaction
Piling and burning
PM 10
PM 2.5
PM Coarse
PM FINE
Point Source
Prescribed Fire Information Reporting System (PFIRS)
Prescription
Pressure
Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD)
Protection
Pyrocumulus
Real-time Observation Monitor and Analysis Network (ROMAN)
Reasonably Available Control Measures (RACM)
Reasonable Further Progress (RFP)
Regional Haze
Regional Haze Rule (RHR)
Regional Planning Organization (RPO)
Relative humidity (RH)
Remote Automated Weather Stations (RAWS)
Residual combustion phase
Residual smoke
Respiration
Respirators
Right-to-burn Law
Rocky Mountain Center (RMC)
Saturated adiabatic lapse rate (SALR)
Scattering
Secondary aerosols
Slash
SMARTFIRE
Smoke intrusion
Smoke management
Smoke management plan
Smoke management program (SMP)
Smoke monitoring
Smoldering combustion phase
Soot
Sparse matrix operator kernel emissions (SMOKE)
Stable atmosphere
State Implementation Plan (SIP)
State Responsibility Area (SRA)
Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Subsidence inversion
Sulfur dioxide (SO2)
Sulfur Oxides (SOx)
Suppression
Tapered Element Oscillating Microbalance (TEOM)
Temperature inversion
Ten-hour time lag fuel
TEOM
Total fuel
Transmissometer
Tribal Authority Rule (TAR)
Tribal Implementation Plan (TIP)
Understory burn
Unstable atmosphere
Use of Wildland Fire
Ventilation
Ventilation index
Visibility
Visibility Improvement State and Tribal Association of the Southeast (VISTAS)
Visibility Information Exchange Web System (VIEWS)
Visual range
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP)
Western States Air Regional Council (WESTAR)
Wet-bulb temperature
Wildfire
Wildland fire
Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS)
Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC)
Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)
Wind direction
Wind speed
Wind, Chinook
Wind, Downslope
Wind, Foehn
Wind, General
Wind, Gradient
Wind, Local
Wind, Santa Ana
Wind, Slope
Wind, Surface
Wind, Upslope
Wind, Valley
Woody biomass utilization
Smokepedia was developed by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Smoke Committee and the University of Idaho College of Natural Resources. The original version is available at http://www.frames.gov/smokepedia.