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Hall
From 1990 to 1998, over 17 000 naturally ignited wildfires were observed in Arizona and New Mexico on US federal land during the fire season of April through October. Lightning strikes associated with these fires accounted for less than 0.35% of all…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Hall
From 1990 to 1998, over 17 000 naturally ignited wildfires were observed in Arizona and New Mexico on US federal land during the fire season of April through October. Lightning strikes associated with these fires accounted for less than 0.35% of all…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Preisler, Westerling
The ability to forecast the number and location of large wildfire events (with specified confidence bounds) is important to fire managers attempting to allocate and distribute suppression efforts during severe fire seasons. This paper describes the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Johnson, Balice
Weather and climate contribute to the multidecadal, seasonal, and daily cycles of the potential for fire ignitions and for the severity of fires. We used a long-term dataset of weather parameters to characterize comparatively homogeneous periods, or…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
McKenzie, O'Neill, Larkin, Norheim
Visibility impairment from regional haze is a significant problem throughout the continental United States. A substantial portion of regional haze is produced by smoke from prescribed and wildland fires. Here we describe the integration of four…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Johnson, Balice
Weather and climate contribute to the multidecadal, seasonal, and daily cycles of the potential for fire ignitions and for the severity of fires. We used a long-term dataset of weather parameters to characterize comparatively homogeneous periods, or…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Rechel, Roberts
The primary factor in estimating fire danger is fuel moisture. Fuel moisture varies seasonally and should be measured over an entire fire season using remote sensing technologies and verified using ground measurements. Recent advances in spaceborne…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Keller
From the text ... 'If you lived in New Mexico or Arizona during the fire season of 2002, nothing was normal. ...In 2002, the parched Southwest was drier than it had been in 100 years. ...By the end of fire season, some 940,000 acres had burned on…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Roads, Fujioka, Chen, Burgan
The Scripps Experimental Climate Prediction Center has been making experimental, near-real-time, weekly to seasonal fire danger forecasts for the past 5 years. US fire danger forecasts and validations are based on standard indices from the National…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Hoadley, Bradshaw, Ferguson, Goodrick, Werth
Fine-scale weather data are becoming increasing available for fire weather and fire danger forecasting to support tactical fire preparedness and prescribed fire planning. Unfortunately, appropriate techniques to implement the National Fire Danger…
Year: 2005
Type: Project