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Abrahamson, Innes
The Northern Rockies Fire Science Network and Northwest Fire Science Consortium teamed up with Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) staff to introduce new fire regime products and demonstrate new search functions to inform fire management planning…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Schoennagel, Morgan, Balch, Dennison, Harvey, Hutto, Krawchuk, Moritz, Rasker, Whitlock
Record blazes swept across parts of the US in 2015, burning more than 10 million acres. In recent decades, state and federal policymakers, tribes, and others are confronting longer fire seasons (Jolly et al. 2015), more large fires (Dennison et al.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Schoennagel, Morgan, Balch, Dennison, Harvey, Hutto, Krawchuk, Moritz, Rasker, Whitlock
Record blazes swept across parts of the US in 2015, burning more than 10 million acres. The four biggest fire seasons since 1960 have all occurred in the last 10 years, leading to fears of a ‘new normal’ for wildfire. Fire fighters and forest…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
A description of fire occurrence and fire effects across the United States for the year of 2014. This includes spending, acres burned, reports on performance measures, and brief narratives on different fires.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Zhang, Kondragunta, Roy
The ratio of key elements such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and silica determines nutrient limitations that are important to regulating primary productivity and species composition in aquatic ecosystems. The flux of these nutrients in streams, as…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Swetnam, Brown, Brown, Falk, Sutherland
A recent surge of scientific publications and interest in fire climatology derives in part from two new paradigms in climatology: (1) the discovery and understanding of broad-scale ocean-atmosphere oscillations (e.g., El Niño Southern-Oscillation)…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Knapp
This synthesis project on season of prescribed burning is to summarize results from studies to date in order to provide managers a resource for predicting fire effects and understanding what variables drive these fire effects in different areas of…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Hall
Over 5400 lightning-ignited wildfires were detected on federal land in Arizona and New Mexico from 1996 through 1998 during the fire season of May through September. The non-uniform and sporadic spatial nature of precipitation events in this region…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Chuvieco, Giglio, Justice
There is interest in the global community on how fire regimes are changing as a function of changing demographics and climate. The ground-based data to monitor such trends in fire activity are inadequate at the global scale. Satellite observations…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Riaño, Moreno-Ruiz, Isidoro, Ustin
An analysis of the spatial and temporal patterns of global burned area with the Daily Tile US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer Pathfinder 8 km Land dataset between 1981 and 2000 is presented.…
Year: 2007
Type: Document