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Projections of future fire activity and area burned in Canada
Flannigan, Logan, Stocks, Wotton, Amiro, Todd
In this study we use historical relationships between weather, the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) System components and ecozone area burned in Canada on a monthly basis in tandem with output from GCMs from the Canadian Climate Centre and the…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Long lead statistical forecasts of area burned in western U.S. wildfires by ecosystem province
Westerling, Gershunov, Cayan, Barnett
A statistical forecast methodology exploits large-scale patterns in monthly U.S. Climatological Division Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) values over a wide region and several seasons to predict area burned in western U.S. wildfires by ecosystem…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Restoring fire as an ecological process in shortgrass prairie ecosystems: initial effects of prescribed burning during the dormant and growing seasons
Brockway, Gatewood, Paris
Prior to Anglo-European settlement, fire was a major ecological process influencing the structure, composition and productivity of shortgrass prairie ecosystems on the Great Plains. However during the past 125 years, the frequency and extent of…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Firewise workshops ignite community action [including: Firewise communities and Correction: Roscommon Equipment Center's origins]
Bailey
From the text ... 'Severe fire seasons and evolving insights into land and resource management have generated a series of recent initiatives for wildland firemanagement.'
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Vegetation dynamics following seasonal fires in mixed mesquite/acacia savannas
Owens, Mackley, Carroll
Fires were once a natural part of most savanna ecosystems, but lack of fine fuel and an active suppression policy have changed fire frequency and seasonality. Re-introducing fires to these systems has been touted as a cost-effective means to reduce…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Federal aerial firefighting: assessing safety and effectiveness
Hall, Hull, Johnson, McKinney, Scott
In response to the 2002 fire season's fatal aircraft accidents, the USDA Forest Service and USDI Bureau of Land Management (BLM) jointly established an independent, five-member Blue Ribbon Commission (the panel - Appendix A) to identify essential…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Development of a seasonal fire severity forecast for the contiguous US: weather forecast and validation
Roads, Fujioka, Brown
The Scripps Experimental Climate Prediction Center (ECPC) has been making experimental, near real-time seasonal global forecasts since Sept. 26, 1997 with the NCEP global spectral model used for the reanalysis. Images of these forecasts, at daily to…
Year: 2002
Type: Document