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Donovan, Noordijk
From the text ... 'Wildfires consume budgets and put the heat on fire managers to justify and control suppression costs. ...We used data from the 2002 fire season to determine how WFSA-predicted outcomes compared to actual outcomes. ...Fire managers…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Geiger, McPherson
Semi-desert grasslands flank the 'Sky Island' mountains in southern Arizona and Nothern Mexico. Many of these grasslands are dominated by nonnative grasses, which potentially alter native biotic communities. One specific concern is the potential for…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
MacGregor, Haynes
The emergence of large fires of long duration (also known as siege fires) with their inherently high costs has raised numerous questions about the opportunities for cost containment. Cost reviews from the 2003 fire season have revealed how…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Munson, Fisher
From the text ... 'A transfer of command should not be confused with a transition in fire behavior or in situational complexity on a fire. ...Recognizing potentially deadly changes in fire behavior should begin on the first day of fire season.'
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Keller
From the text ... 'If you lived in New Mexico or Arizona during the fire season of 2002, nothing was normal. ...In 2002, the parched Southwest was drier than it had been in 100 years. ...By the end of fire season, some 940,000 acres had burned on…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Carmona-Moreno, Belward, Malingreau, Hartley, Garcia-Alegre, Antonovski, Buchshtaber, Pivovarov
Daily global observations from the Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometers on the series of meteorological satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration between 1982 and 1999 were used to generate a new weekly global…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Garfin, Morehouse
The 2002 Fire in the West workshop brought together fire managers, climatologists, social scientists, and community-based fire management specialists. The workshop began with a half-day science symposium, followed by sessions on climate forecasts,…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Roads, Fujioka, Chen, Burgan
The Scripps Experimental Climate Prediction Center has been making experimental, near-real-time, weekly to seasonal fire danger forecasts for the past 5 years. US fire danger forecasts and validations are based on standard indices from the National…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Schwilk, Knapp, Kane, Keeley
In the mixed conifer forests of the western US, prescribed fire is typically conducted in the spring or fall. Historically, however, fires in these areas most commonly burned during the dry mid summer to early fall period. Thus, the timing of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Rechel, Peterson, Roberts, van Wagtendonk
Fuel moisture is one of the major components of fire risk assessment in the western United States. Regional and landscape fuel moisture estimates are currently derived from coarse resolution remotely sensed imagery without ground measurements to…
Year: 2005
Type: Document