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forest fire ecological succession forest fire Smoke from Central American forest fires drifting over North America, as measured by the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) on May 22, 1998.NASA's Earth Probe Mission satellite can detect smoke in the atmosphere and is thus able to monitor large fires from space. Aboard the satellite, TOMS measures aerosols, enabling scientists to create maps of the smoke's density. Smoke over Indonesia on September 24, 1997.Hundreds of fires set by loggers, farmers, and plantation owners burned on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. Smoke from fires set on the island of New Guinea is also visible. Smoke over South America on March 27, 1998.In South America fires burned out of control in the state of Roraima, Brazil, as well as in Colombia and Venezuela.
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Add new Web site: Academia - Forest Fire Studies on Fire Behaviour: Key Topics and Their Importance (PDF). Jan 03, 2025
Add new Web site: Natural Resources Canada - Forest fires. Nov 22, 2024
Add new Web site: Nature - Forest fire size amplifies postfire land surface warming. Oct 11, 2024
Add new Web site: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Forest fire and biological diversity. Aug 30, 2024
Add new Web site: CORE - A Data Mining Approach to Predict Forest Fires using Meteorological Data. Jul 19, 2024
Add new Web site: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Forest fire and biological diversity. Mar 01, 2024
Added information about the ecological importance of fire in some forest systems. Jan 18, 2022
Add new Web site: Healthline - Lens. May 21, 2015
Added new Web site: National geographic - Wildfire. Apr 20, 2009
Media added. Mar 07, 2009
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - How Wildfires Work. Dec 26, 2008
Added new Web site: Buzzle.com - Absinthe Effects. Aug 26, 2008
Added new Web site: US Geological Survey - Fire Ecology Research. Nov 02, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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