Smoke Management : An Emerging Profession

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  • Peter Lahm
چکیده

The Southwest has beautiful desert landscapes, forested mountains, and a rapidly growing population. People expect clean air and unrestricted vistas. They complain when their visibility is reduced. Visibility reduction is caused by pollution transported into the region from the large urban complex of Los Angeles as well as from the growing metropolitan area within the region. People are generally not aware that smoke from forest burning has historically been a part of the landscape and their tolerance for smoke is rather low. Diurnal wind patterns exist in the Southwest because of the strong radiative heating in daytime and cooling at night. These winds transport residual smoke from forest burning in the mountains into valley bottoms where towns and cities are often located.· Land management in the region must use fire to accomplish a variety

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تاریخ انتشار 2011