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Crowley, Stockdale, Johnston, Wulder, Liu, McCarty, Rieb, Cardille, White
Fire seasons have become increasingly variable and extreme due to changing climatological, ecological, and social conditions. Earth observation data are critical for monitoring fires and their impacts. Herein, we present a whole-system framework for…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Reeves
Season 4, Episode 4 of the monthly 'West-Wide Rangeland Fuel Assessment: Reading the Tea Leaves' webcast in which Dr. Matt Reeves, an RMRS Research Ecologist specializing in remote sensing and ecological modeling, analyzes current rangeland fuel…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Reeves
Season 4, Episode 3 of the monthly 'West-Wide Rangeland Fuel Assessment: Reading the Tea Leaves' webcast in which Dr. Matt Reeves, an RMRS Research Ecologist specializing in remote sensing and ecological modeling, analyzes current rangeland fuel…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Reeves
Season 4, Episode 2 of the monthly 'West-Wide Rangeland Fuel Assessment: Reading the Tea Leaves' webcast in which Dr. Matt Reeves, an RMRS Research Ecologist specializing in remote sensing and ecological modeling, analyzes current rangeland fuel…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Reeves
Season 4, Episode 1 of the monthly 'West-Wide Rangeland Fuel Assessment: Reading the Tea Leaves' webcast in which Dr. Matt Reeves, an RMRS Research Ecologist specializing in remote sensing and ecological modeling, analyzes current rangeland fuel…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Evans, Maxwell
The SWFSC offers a webinar reviewing wildfires of 2022 and looking ahead toward fire conditions for the 2023 season. Dr. Zander Evans presents an overview of the 10 largest fires in the Southwest during 2022. He will share summaries of forest types…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Son, Ma, Wang, Rasch, Wang, Kim, Jeong, Lim, Yoon
The recent wildfires in the western United States during 2018 and 2020 caused record-breaking fire damage and casualties. Despite remarkable advances in fire modeling and weather forecasting, it remains challenging to anticipate catastrophic…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Egorova, Pagnini
Several cross-sectional studies recognize that conductive climatic conditions, including grave weather conditions favorable for ignition, larger burned areas, increasing fuel load and longer fire season, can lead to extreme events and enable fires…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Riley, O'Connor, Dunn, Haas, Stratton, Gannon
Falling trees and tree fragments are one of the top five causes of fatalities for wildland fire responders. In six out of ten recent years, at least one fatality from a tree strike has occurred while a fire responder was on duty, and others were…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Justino, Bromwich, Schumacher, Silva, Wang
Based on statistical analyses and Arctic Oscillation (AO) and the Pacific-North American pattern (PNA) induced climate anomalies in the 2001–2020 interval, it has been found that these climate modes drastically influence the fire danger (PFIv2) in…
Year: 2022
Type: Document