The Southwest Fire Science Consortium is partnering with FRAMES to help fire managers access important fire science information related to the Southwest's top ten fire management issues.
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In a period of great ecological and socioeconomic change, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service recognizes the critical importance of restoration to fulfilling its mission to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the Nation…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Sampson, Hansen, Riegle, Mellin
To inform wildland fire incident GIS resource people about the status of topics impacting the 2015 fire season.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Reisen, Duran, Flannigan, Elliott, Rideout
Wildfire activity is predicted to increase with global climate change, resulting in longer fire seasons and larger areas burned. The emissions from fires are highly variable owing to differences in fuel, burning conditions and other external…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Riley, Stonesifer, Calkin, Preisler
The Predictive Services program was created under the National Wildfire Coordinating Group in 2001 to address the need for long- and short-term decision support information for fire managers and operations personnel. The primary mission of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Preisler, Eidenshink, Howard, Burgan
Systems to estimate forest fire potential commonly utilize one or more indexes that relate to expected fire behavior; however they indicate neither the chance that a large fire will occur, nor the expected number of large fires. That is, they do not…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Evans
Southwestern ecosystems are fire-adapted and fire is arguably the most important process in these forests and grass lands. This overview is designed to help everyone from the general public to natural resource managers better understand the past…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Le Page, Morton, Bond-Lamberty, Pereira, Hurtt
Vegetation fires are a major driver of ecosystem dynamics and greenhouse gas emissions. Anticipating potential changes in fire activity and their impacts relies first on a realistic model of fire activity (e.g., fire incidence and interannual…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Jolly, Cochrane, Freeborn, Holden, Brown, Williamson, Bowman
Climate strongly influences global wildfire activity, and recent wildfire surges may signal fire weather-induced pyrogeographic shifts. Here we use three daily global climate data sets and three fire danger indices to develop a simple annual metric…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Crow, Lawhon, Koebele, Kroepsch, Schild, Huda
States in the American West are experiencing significant population growth and exurban development, in addition to a longer fire season and a changing climate. These factors contribute to the increasing difficulty of managing wildfire in the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Garbe
Presentation discussing challenges in communication during smoke events. Dr. Garbe discussed the importance of local response, and experience, as well as keeping flexible messaging and keeping the message "new" across fire seasons.
Year: 2015
Type: Media