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Reading the Tea Leaves: It’s Just Weird
Reeves
Season 4, Episode 4 of the monthly 'West-Wide Rangeland Fuel Assessment: Reading the Tea Leaves' webcast in which Dr. Matt Reeves, an RMRS Research Ecologist specializing in remote sensing and ecological modeling, analyzes current rangeland fuel…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Reading the Tea Leaves: An Overview of the Fuel Situation in California
Reeves
Season 4, Episode 3 of the monthly 'West-Wide Rangeland Fuel Assessment: Reading the Tea Leaves' webcast in which Dr. Matt Reeves, an RMRS Research Ecologist specializing in remote sensing and ecological modeling, analyzes current rangeland fuel…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Reading the Tea Leaves: Timing is Everything
Reeves
Season 4, Episode 2 of the monthly 'West-Wide Rangeland Fuel Assessment: Reading the Tea Leaves' webcast in which Dr. Matt Reeves, an RMRS Research Ecologist specializing in remote sensing and ecological modeling, analyzes current rangeland fuel…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Reading the Tea Leaves: The Second Great Reversal
Reeves
Season 4, Episode 1 of the monthly 'West-Wide Rangeland Fuel Assessment: Reading the Tea Leaves' webcast in which Dr. Matt Reeves, an RMRS Research Ecologist specializing in remote sensing and ecological modeling, analyzes current rangeland fuel…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Fire in the Southwest, Past and Present – Fire Season 2022 Overview and 2023 Outlook
Evans, Maxwell
The SWFSC offers a webinar reviewing wildfires of 2022 and looking ahead toward fire conditions for the 2023 season. Dr. Zander Evans presents an overview of the 10 largest fires in the Southwest during 2022. He will share summaries of forest types…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Deep Learning provides substantial improvements to county-level fire weather forecasting over the western United States
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

Climate classification of the fire-spotting generated wildfires
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

Arctic Oscillation and Pacific-North American pattern dominated-modulation of fire danger and wildfire occurrence
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

Fire modeling and social science analysis of fire managers’ use of fire weather data across the US - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Toman, Wilson, Jolly, Olsen
Fire weather tools, such as the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) and the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS), have been developed to support wildland fire management decisions. However, little is known about how these tools are…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

Will land use land cover change drive atmospheric conditions to become more conducive to wildfires in the United States?
Zhong, Wang, Sciusco, Shen, Pei, Nikolic, McKeehan, Kashongwe, Hatami-Bahman-Beiglou, Camacho, Akanga, Charney, Bian
The increase in wildfire risk in the United States in recent decades has been linked to rapid growth of the wildland-urban interface and to changing climate. While there have been numerous studies on wildfires and climate change, few have separately…
Year: 2021
Type: Document