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Ruby, Coker, Sol, Quindry, Montain
Wildland firefighters (WLFFs) are inserted as the front-line defense to minimize loss of natural resources, property, and human life when fires erupt in forested regions of the world. The WLFF occupation is physically demanding as exemplified by…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
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
Nolan, Anderson, Poulter, Varner
Aim: Each year, wild and managed fires burn roughly 4 million km2 [~400 million hectares (Mha)] of savanna, forest, grassland and agricultural ecosystems. Land use and climate change have altered fire regimes throughout the world, with a trend…
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
Jones, Vraga, Hessburg, Hurteau, Allen, Keane, Spies, North, Collins, Finney, Lydersen, Westerling
Recent intense fire seasons in Australia, Borneo, South America, Africa, Siberia, and western North America have displaced large numbers of people, burned tens of millions of hectares, and generated societal urgency to address the wildfire problem (…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Pérez-Invernón, Huntrieser, Moris
Lightning is the main precursor of wildfires in Arizona, New Mexico, and Florida during the fire season. Forecasting the occurrence of Lightning-Ignited Wildfires (LIW) is an essential tool to reduce their impacts on the environment and society.…
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
Juliano, Jiménez, Kosović, Eidhammer, Thompson, Berg, Fast, Motley, Polidori
The 2020 wildfire season (May through December) in the United States was exceptionally active, with the National Interagency Fire Center reporting over 10 million acres (40,000 km2) burned. During the September 2020 wildfire events, large…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Saito, Shiraishi, Hirata, Niwa, Saito, Steinbacher, Worthy, Matsunaga
Emissions from biomass burning (BB) are a key source of atmospheric tracer gases that affect the atmospheric carbon cycle. We developed four sets of global BB emissions estimates (named GlcGlob, GlcGeoc, McdGlob, and McdGeoc) using a bottom-up…
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