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Dube
Literature shows that at a global scale, fire activity increased from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present. There is incremental evidence indicating that climate defines the regional boundary conditions for fire. Human influence on ignitions…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Sullivan
In recent years, advances in computational power have led to an increase in attempts to model the behaviour of wildland fires and to simulate their spread across landscape. The present series of articles endeavours to comprehensively survey and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Sullivan
In recent years, advances in computational power have led to an increase in attempts to model the behaviour of wildland fires and to simulate their spread across the landscape. The present series of articles endeavours to comprehensively survey and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Sullivan
In recent years, advances in computational power have led to an increase in attempts to model the behaviour of wildland fires and to simulate their spread across landscape. The present series of articles endeavours to comprehensively survey and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Podur, Martell
Forest fires are influenced by weather, fuels, and topography, but the relative influence of these factors may vary in different forest types. Compositional analysis can be used to assess the relative importance of fuels and weather in the boreal…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Littell, McKenzie, Peterson, Westerling
The purpose of this paper is to quantify climatic controls on the area burned by fire in different vegetation types in the western United States. We demonstrate that wildfire area burned (WFAB) in the American West was controlled by climate during…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Wimberly, Cochrane, Baer, Pabst
Understanding the influences of forest management practices on wildfire severity is critical in fire-prone ecosystems of the western United States. Newly available geospatial data sets characterizing vegetation, fuels, topography, and burn severity…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Zimmerman, Farnsworth, Morales, Mindar, Loretto, Naden, Irwin
On Thursday October 1, 2009, the Twin Prescribed Fire was ignited southwest of the town of Williams, AZ. Several spots occurred outside of the burn unit that afternoon. The next morning more spots were found east of the burn unit in heavy fuels and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
The interaction between smoke and air pollution creates a public health challenge. Fuels treatments proposed for National Forests are intended to reduce fuel accumulations and wildfire frequency and severity, as well as to protect property located…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Parisien, Miller, Ager, Finney
Techniques for modeling burn probability (BP) combine the stochastic components of fire regimes (ignitions and weather) with sophisticated fire growth algorithms to produce high-resolution spatial estimates of the relative likelihood of burning.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document