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Wildfire management and forecasting fire potential: the roles of climate information and social networks in the southwest United States
Owen, McLeod, Kolden, Ferguson, Brown
Continuing progress in the fields of meteorology, climatology, and fire ecology has enabled more proactive and risk-tolerant wildland fire management practices in the United States. Recent institutional changes have also facilitated the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document

Climate change in western US deserts: potential for increased wildfire and invasive annual grasses
Abatzoglou, Kolden
Anthropogenic climate change is hypothesized to modify the spread of invasive annual grasses across the deserts of the western United States. The influence of climate change on future invasions depends on both climate suitability that defines a…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

Modeling topographic influences on fuel moisture and fire danger in complex terrain to improve wildland fire management decision support
Holden, Jolly
Fire danger rating systems commonly ignore fine scale, topographically-induced weather variations. These variations will likely create heterogeneous, landscape-scale fire danger conditions that have never been examined in detail. We modeled the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

'Pyrogeography' Across Western North America: How Climate Has Affected Fire Regimes and Fire History Across the West, and Where We May Be Going the Future
Brown
Peter Brown, Director of Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research, will present a webinar on September 27, 1 PM MDT. A recent surge of scientific knowledge and interest in fire climatology derives from two factors: increasing understanding of broad-scale…
Year: 2011
Type: Media

Potential changes in monthly fire risk in the eastern Canadian boreal forest under future climate change
Le Goff, Flannigan, Bergeron
The main objective of this paper is to evaluate whether future climate change would trigger an increase in the fire activity of the Waswanipi area, central Quebec. First, we used regression analyses to model the historical (1973-2002) link between…
Year: 2009
Type: Document

Delivery and Demonstration of a Surface Wind Simulation Tool for Fire Management Decision Support
Butler
Previous funding from the JFSP has been used to test the utility of commercial engineering software for simulating surface wind flows in support of fire management decisions. Efforts over the last three years have demonstrated that this technology…
Year: 2009
Type: Project

Implications of changing climate for global wildland fire
Flannigan, Krawchuk, de Groot, Wotton, Gowman
Wildland fire is a global phenomenon, and a result of interactions between climate-weather, fuels and people. Our climate is changing rapidly primarily through the release of greenhouse gases that may have profound and possibly unexpected impacts on…
Year: 2009
Type: Document

Implications of changing climate for global wildland fire
Flannigan, Krawchuk, de Groot, Wotton, Gowman
Wildland fire is a global phenomenon, and a result of interactions between climate-weather, fuels and people. Our climate is changing rapidly primarily through the release of greenhouse gases that may have profound and possibly unexpected impacts on…
Year: 2009
Type: Document

Multi-season climate synchronized forest fires throughout the 20th century, northern Rockies, USA
Morgan, Heyerdahl, Gibson
We inferred climate drivers of 20th Century years with regionally synchronous forest fires in the U. S. Northern Rockies. We derived annual fire extent from an existing fire atlas that includes 5038 fire polygons recorded from 12 070 086 ha, or 71%…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

Fire ignitions related to radar reflectivity patterns in Arizona and New Mexico
Hall
Over 5400 lightning-ignited wildfires were detected on federal land in Arizona and New Mexico from 1996 through 1998 during the fire season of May through September. The non-uniform and sporadic spatial nature of precipitation events in this region…
Year: 2008
Type: Document