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Belval, Stonesifer, Calkin
Wildland fire occurrence is highly variable in time and space, and in the United States where total area burned can vary substantially, acquiring resources (firefighters, engines, aircraft, etc.) to respond to fire demand is an important…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Mehadi, Moosmüller, Campbell, Ham, Schweizer, Tarnay, Hunter
Increases in large wildfire frequency and intensity and a longer fire season in the western United States are resulting in a significant increase in air pollution, including concentrations of PM2.5 (particulate matter <2.5 µm in aerodynamic…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Jolly
Matt Jolly, Research Ecologist (USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station) will present the structure and function of the current version of the US National Fire Danger Rating System, NFDRS2016. He will show how this system can be…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Mueller, Thode, Margolis, Yocom, Young, Iniguez
Over the last several decades in forest and woodland ecosystems of the southwestern United States, wildfire size and severity have increased, thereby increasing the vulnerability of these systems to type conversions, invasive species, and other…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Cattau, Wessman, Mahood, Balch
Aim: Over the past several decades, wildfires have become larger, more frequent, and/or more severe in many areas. Simultaneously, anthropogenic ignitions are steadily growing. We have little understanding of how increasing anthropogenic ignitions…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Li, Zhang, Kondragunta, Schmidt, Holmes
Satellite-based active fire data provide indispensable information for monitoring global fire activity and understanding its impacts on climate and air quality. Yet the limited spatiotemporal sampling capacities of current satellites result in…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
New science synthesis to inform pinyon and juniper woodlands management in the Western United States
Pinyon and juniper woodlands occupy over 70,000 square miles of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau. In some areas, pinyon and juniper woodlands are expanding into other vegetation types, like sagebrush steppe. In other areas, these woodlands are…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Song, Wang
Wildfire occurrence and spread are affected by atmospheric and land-cover conditions, and therefore meteorological and land-cover parameters can be used in area burned prediction. We apply three forecast methods, a generalized linear model,…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Edgeley, Burnett
COVID-19 has complicated wildfire management and public safety for the 2020 fire season. It is unclear whether COVID-19 has impacted the ability of residents in the wildland–urban interface to prepare for and evacuate from wildfire, or the extent to…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Gannon, Thompson, Deming, Bayham, Wei, O'Connor
Quantifying fireline effectiveness (FLE) is essential to evaluate the efficiency of large wildfire management strategies to foster institutional learning and improvement in fire management organizations. FLE performance metrics for incident-level…
Year: 2020
Type: Document