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Westerling, Gebert, Jones, Abt, Prestemon, Gershunov
A substantial increase in the inter-annual variability of wildfire season severity over the past two decades has greatly increased the complexity and expense of wildland fire management on Federal lands. Timely, skillful forecasts of wildfire season…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Crimmins, Comrie
Weather conditions immediately prior to and during wildfire events are often viewed as the most important atmospheric determinants of regional wildfire variability, while antecedent climate conditions are often overlooked. This study evaluates the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Key, Benson, Ohlen, Howard, Zhu
A U.S. Department of Interior program to use Landsat to spatially quantify burn severity, using the differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR or delta NBR), has prompted examination of a number of burns where both Initial and Extended Assessments were…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Lile, Inbau
Wildland fire coordination centers have the difficult task of determining where to position critical wildland firefighting resources. This task is compounded when several large fires occur simultaneously across vast geographic areas. According to…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Greenfield, Smith, Chamberlain
For several years the USDA Forest Service has been making advances to the airborne thermal infrared imaging capabilities for wildland fire detection and mapping. The new 'Phoenix' system represents the first time that a high productivity, digital,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Nester, Vanbussem
FXNet is the latest technology Incident Meteorologists (IMETS) have at their disposal to collect meteorological data while onsite at wildland fires. During the fire season of 2002 FXNet was used in select areas to test the equipment and get the IMET…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Skinner
Historical relationships (1959-1999), as determined by previous studies, between monthly mid-tropospheric flow at 500 mb and area burned in Canada are examined by ecozone. Future changes in 500 mb heights, as suggested by a range of four IPCC…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Delgado, Mathewson, Horel
During the last couple of years and stemming from the year 2000 fire plan, Land Management Agencies hired 20 meteorologists nationwide to develop fire weather programs at Geogrpahic Area Coordination Centers and to introduce and implement new…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Feltz, Moreau, Prins, Claid-Cook, Brown
Over the past 15 years meteorological satellites have been increasingly used for land surface applications, including fire detection and monitoring. Several automated algorithms now provide satellite derived fire products in near real time for…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Fieldhouse, Dickinson
The extent of extreme fire behavior in the last several fire seasons has highlighted the susceptibility of current forested vegetation stands to crown fire, bringing it to the forefront of national attention. Though much attention has been given…
Year: 2003
Type: Document