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Fire in the earth system: introduction to the Special Collection
East, AghaKouchak, Caprarelli, Filippelli, Florindo, Luce, Rajaram, Russell, Santín, Santos
Fire has always been an important component of many ecosystems, but anthropogenic global climate change is now altering fire regimes over much of Earth's land surface, spurring a more urgent need to understand the physical, biological, and chemical…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Roadmap for wildfire resilience: solutions for a paradigm shift
Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity in part because of changing climate conditions and decades of fire suppression. Though fire is a natural ecological process in many forest ecosystems, extreme wildfires now pose a growing threat to…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

SCIENCE x Fire: Modeling Risk and Trade-offs
Stevens, Dillon, Manley, Povak, Nepal
Introduction to SCIENCE x Day 4, brief overview by Jens StevensDelivering wildfire risk information targeted to the community level, presented by Greg DillonJuggling risks and tradeoffs toward a more resilient future: the known, unknown, unknowable…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Estimating climate-sensitive wildfire risk and tree mortality models for use in broad-scale U.S. forest carbon projections
Pokharel, Latta, Ohrel
This study utilizes forest inventory and climate attributes as the basis for estimating models of wildfire risk and associated biomass loss (tree mortality) and then demonstrates how they can be applied in calculating CO2 emissions related to the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Growing convergence research: coproducing climate projections to inform proactive decisions for managing simultaneous wildfire risk
Cullen, Prichard, Abatzoglou, Dolk, Kessenich, Bloem, Bukovsky, Humphrey, McGinnis, Skinner, Mearns
We apply a convergence research approach to the urgent need for proactive management of long-term risk associated with wildfire in the United States. In this work we define convergence research in accordance with the US National Science Foundation—…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Wildfire and Climate Change Adaptation of Western North American Forests: A Case for Proactive Management
Prichard, Hagmann, Hessburg
Climate change and wildfires pose an existential threat to western North American forests, a reality which necessitates place-based strategies to increase their resilience – if forests are to be widely conserved. EuroAmerican colonization,…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

The world is burning: what exactly are firebrands and why should anyone care?
Manzello, Suzuki
Large outdoor fires have become commonplace all over the world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) defines large outdoor fires as an urban fire, tsunami-generated fire, volcano-generated fire, wildland-urban interface (WUI)…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Pests, wind and fire: a multi-hazard risk review for natural disturbances in forests
Bastit, Brunette, Montagné-Huck
Natural disturbances are paramount in the development of ecosystems but may jeopardise the provision of forest ecosystem services. Climate change exacerbates this threat and favours interactions between disturbances. Our objective was thus to…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Performance of fire danger indices and their utility in predicting future wildfire danger over the conterminous United States
Yu, Feng, Wang, Wright
Predicting current and future wildfire frequency and size is central to wildfire control and management. Multiple fire danger indices (FDIs) that incorporate weather and fuel conditions have been developed and utilized to support wildfire…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Escalating hot-dry extremes amplify compound fire weather risk
Fan, Miao, Zscheischler, Slater, Wu, Chai, AghaKouchak
Fire weather compounded by extremely hot and dry conditions often severely impacts society and ecosystems. To mitigate and better adapt to these compound fire weather (CFW) events, a better understanding of recent and future CFW trends is needed.…
Year: 2023
Type: Document