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Interactions between antecedent climate and wildfire variability across south-eastern Arizona
Crimmins, Comrie
Long-term antecedent climate conditions are often overlooked as important drivers of wildfire variability. Fuel moisture levels and fine-fuel productivity are controlled by variability in precipitation and temperature at long timescales (months to…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Applying geographic information systems and remote sensing to forest fire monitoring, mapping, and modeling in Canada
Englefield, Lee, Fraser, Landry, Hall, Lynham, Cihlar, Li, Jin, Ahern
The Fire Monitoring, Mapping and Modelling System (Fire M3) is an initiative of the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) and the Canadian Forest Service (CFS), both agencies of Natural Resources Canada. The goals of Fire M3 are to use low-…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Atmospheric influences on the 1994-1995 extreme fire seasons in the Northwest Territories, Canada [abstract]
Kochtubajda, Flannigan, Gyakum, Stewart
Forest fires are a common disturbance within the boreal ecosystem of the Mackenzie Basin during the warm season. These fires threaten human life, property, and valuable commercial resources, and pose the greatest danger for fire managers. Fire is…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Assessing the impact of climate change on landscape-level fire behavior potential in central Saskatchewan [abstract]
Kafka, Parisien, Hirsch, Flannigan, Todd
Climate change could increase fire weather severity in the western portion of Canada's boreal forest. In this study, we evaluate how climate change could affect future landscape-level fire behavior potential. The study area extends over 135,000 km2…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Development of daily weather and fire danger scenarios using two general circulation models
Logan, Flannigan, Wotton, Stocks
Fires play an important role in Canadian forests and are largely influenced by the weather. Any changes in future climate may lead to dramatic changes in future fire activity. We examined what changes in climate might occur due to increased levels…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Fuels, fire severity, and invasive plants within the Cerro Grande Fire, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Omi, Martinson, Kalkhan, Chong, Hunter, Stohlgren
The severity of the 2000 fire season has increased public awareness of a widespread fuels problem in western U.S. forests. Federal land management agencies have responded with plans to greatly expand programs to mitigate hazardous fuel conditions.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Assessing the value of mesoscale models in predicting fire danger - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Hoadley, Ferguson, Goodrick, Bradshaw, Werth
Numerical weather models are being relied on more and more to develop fire weather forecasts and predict fire behavior and fire danger. Their accuracy in these applications, however, has heretofore been unknown. The purpose of this project was to…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Study: rising suppression costs linked to increased severity of fire seasons
Gebert, Calkin
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Year: 2004
Type: Document

Experimental weekly to seasonal US forecasts with the regional spectral model
Roads
Since 27 September 1997, the Scripps Experimental Climate Prediction Center (ECPC) has been making near real-time experimental global and regional dynamical forecasts with the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) global spectral…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Climatic change, wildfire, and conservation
McKenzie, Gedalof, Peterson, Mote
Climatic variability is a dominant factor affecting large wildfires in the western United States, an observation supported by palaeoecological data on charcoal in lake sediments and reconstructions from fire-scarred trees. Although current fire…
Year: 2004
Type: Document