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Henn, Butler, Li, Sussell, Hale, Broyles, Reinhardt
Carbon monoxide (CO) exposure levels encountered by wildland firefighters (WLFs) throughout their work shift can change considerably within a few minutes due to the varied tasks that are performed and the changing environmental and fire conditions…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Ziel, Moore, Lahm
The Advanced Fire Environment Learning Unit (AFELU) will host three speakers to talk about Predictive Services comparison tools (Robert Ziel, Alaska Fire Science Consortium), predicting fire behavior in Alaska (Chris Moore, Alaska Fire Service), and…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Overall, drought conditions had improved across the Southern Area Geographic Area over the past two years. During the spring of 2015 drought conditions began establishing across Southern Appalachian mountain states and steadily spread and increased…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Mueller
Over the last 30 years, in woodland and forested ecosystems across the southwestern US, there has been an increasing trend in fire activity. Altered land use practices and more recent changes in precipitation patterns and warmer temperatures are…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Sun, Miao, Hanel, Borthwick, Duan, Ji, Li
The effects of heat stress are spatially heterogeneous owing to local variations in climate response, population density, and social conditions. Using global climate and impact models from the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project, our…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Stamper
With increasing fire season duration and complexities in the fire management environment come opportunities to scale up the application of prescribed fire. In this webinar, we will explore the challenges climate change poses for fire managers, as…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Laurent, Mouillot, Moreno, Yue, Ciais
Vegetation fires are an important process in the Earth system. Fire intensity locally impacts fuel consumption, damage to the vegetation, chemical composition of fire emissions and also how fires spread across landscapes. It has been observed that…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Steblein, Miller
Wildland fire characteristics, such as area burned, number of large fires, burn intensity, and fire season duration, have increased steadily over the past 30 years, resulting in substantial increases in the costs of suppressing fires and managing…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
McEvoy
Presented by Dan McEvoy, Desert Research Institute and Western Regional Climate Center, Reno, NV
Despite a clear link between drought and wildfire, there is currently a lack of information for stakeholders at the regional and local levels for…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Lynch, Evans
This report is the sixth in a series of annual overviews available from the Southwest Fire Science Consortium and the Ecological Restoration Institute. The goal of this overview is to provide a concise summary of the fire season and to facilitate…
Year: 2019
Type: Document