No single factor produces wildfires; rather, they occur when fire thresholds (ignitions, fuels, and drought) are crossed. Anomalous weather events may lower these thresholds and thereby enhance the likelihood and spread of wildfires. Climate change...
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Definition: The state of the atmosphere at a given time and place, with respect to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind velocity, and barometric pressure.
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Weather is the state of the atmosphere and is often described in terms of temperature, humidity, stability, pressure, wind speed and direction, clouds and precipitation. The interaction of these weather elements control many aspects of fire behavior.
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Modelling the propagation of wildfires requires an accurate wind field to correctly predict the behaviour of the fire. Although numerical weather prediction models produce reliable and accurate mesoscale forecasts, these are typically either available...
Person: Hilton, Garg
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
WindNinja, a tool developed by RMRS scientists, delivers high-resolution wind predictions within seconds for emergency fire responders making on-the-ground decisions. The program computes spatially-varying wind fields to help predict winds at small...
Person: Clark
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
An open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver has been incorporated into the WindNinja modeling framework. WindNinja is widely used by wildland fire managers, as well as researchers and practitioners in other fields, such as wind energy,...
Person: Wagenbrenner, Forthofer, Page, Butler
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Greg Dillon of the USDA Forest Service's Fire Modeling Institute (FMI) gives an overview of the work FMI does in wildland fire.
Webinar hosted by National Weather Service IMET.
Person: Dillon
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
We evaluated the accuracy of National Weather Service (NWS) Fire Weather mixing height estimates over the western United States corresponding to smoke plume events from 2006-2020. We developed a toolbox for measuring smoke-related aerosol mixing...
Person: Wright, Berkowitz, Liu, Mock, Weber, Nisbet, Ross, Toth
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The state of California is statutorily required to map hazards to people and property for areas of the state that are under local and state fire protection responsibility. These Fire Hazard Severity Zones form the basis of a number of state and local...
Person: Sapsis
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Compare and View up to Five Weather Scenarios to evaluate affects on Fire Behavior. Only in the Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) can you run fire behavior models and compare the outputs side-by-side. Easily view on the map,...
Person: Ernstrom, Noble, Schueller
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pyrogenic carbon (PyC) is produced by the incomplete combustion of vegetation during wildfires and is a major and persistent pool of the global carbon (C) cycle. However, its redistribution in the landscape after fires remains largely unknown....
Person: Bellè, Berhe, Hagedorn, Santín, Schiedung, van Meerveld, Abiven
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires typically affect multiple forest ecosystem services, with carbon sequestration being affected both directly, through the combustion of vegetation, litter and soil organic matter, and indirectly, through perturbation of the energy and matter...
Person: Oliveira, Schaller, Keizer, Foken
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Department of Interior's (DOI's) Office of Wildland Fire (OWF) and Office of Policy Analysis (PPA) are organizing the DOI Wildland Fire Workshop, to be held online in the fall of 2021. This workshop builds on the momentum of Reclamation's Wildfire Research Needs Workshop (led by John Whitler on April 6 and 7, 2021), and is an opportunity for those interested in issues related to wildland fire at Interior to come together for networking, learning, and discussing current issues.
Call for Presenters
The draft agenda includes "lightning rounds" to allow participants to learn about current work going on at Interior. Lightning-round presentations are brief summaries of in-progress work or completed projects. Please use the survey link below to send a brief description of your research by Friday, April 30.
Call for Session Facilitators
The draft agenda also includes two working sessions, where participants will be breaking into several smaller groups to address various aspects of how wildland fire intersects with (1) climate change, and (2) racial equity and disadvantaged communities. If you would be interested in serving as a chairperson or note-taker for any of these groups, please use the survey link below to let the workshop coordinators know by Friday, April 30.
For more information: Link to the Call for Presenters Survey
POSTPONED: DOI Wildland Fire Workshop (online)
September 6, 2021 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm PDT
The Department of Interior's (DOI's) Office of Wildland Fire (OWF) and Office of Policy Analysis (PPA) are organizing the DOI Wildland Fire Workshop, to be held online in the fall of 2021. This workshop builds on the momentum of Reclamation's Wildfire...
2021 Meteorology and Climate - Modeling for Air Quality Conference
UC Davis Conference Center
September 15, 2021 8:00 am PDT to September 17, 2021 5:00 pm PDT
The Meteorology and Climate - Modeling for Air Quality Conference is a biennial event hosted by the University of California, Davis. The three day conference brings together research scientists, experts, and professionals from around the world to...
9th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress
Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort
November 30, 2021 (All day) to December 4, 2021 (All day)
The Association for Fire Ecology is hosting the Fire Congress with Tall Timbers, offering an exciting blend of in-person and virtual learning opportunities for fire managers, natural resource professionals, policy and administrative leaders, and the...
IAWF Fire and Climate Conference 2022: Impacts, Issues and Futures
May 23, 2022 (All day) to May 27, 2022 (All day)
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Pasadena, California on May 23-27, 2022
Melbourne, Australia in June 2022
The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) plans to hold a flagship international conference in 2022. The conference will be held in...
Webinar - The Timeline of Climate, Weather and Fire
June 10, 2021 11:30 am PDT
Session 4 of the University of Nevada Reno's “Living With Fire Series,” part of the Nevada Wildfire Awareness Campaign, 2021.
Topic: Living With Fire will host a workshop on the interactions between fire and weather.
Speaker:
- ...
Webinar - Introduction to 'Compare Weather' Functions in IFTDSS
May 26, 2021 12:00 pm PDT
Compare and View up to Five Weather Scenarios to evaluate affects on Fire Behavior. Only in the Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) can you run fire behavior models and compare the outputs side-by-side. Easily view on the map,...
16th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit & 6th Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference (Virtual)
May 24, 2021 (All day) to May 27, 2021 (All day)
A Virtual Conference, for Real World Problems
Join the International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) on a trip around the world through the lens of wildland fire. Across four days in May 2021, the IAWF will present real world risks and...
Alaska Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee (FMAC) Spring Refresher
Online
May 17, 2021 11:00 am PDT
The Alaska Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee's Spring Refresher webinar will be presented by Chris Moore and Robert (Zeke) Ziel.
Chris will present a case study of the analysis work on the 2020 Isom Creek fire, and Zeke will present on...
13th Fire and Forest Meteorology Virtual Symposium
May 11, 2021 (All day) to May 13, 2021 (All day)
The 13th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and under the AMS Agriculture and Forest Meteorology Committee, will be held 11-13 May 2021. Due to continued uncertainty and restrictions on travel...
Webinar - Overwintering Fires in Boreal Forests -and- Lightning Will Spark Future Increases in Boreal Forest Fires
May 6, 2021 8:00 am PDT
This webinar is part of NASA's ABoVE (Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment) Northwest Territories focused webinar series.
Topic: Overwintering fires in boreal forests of North America
Presenter: Rebecca C. Scholten, Faculty of Science,...
Webinar - Fire on the 5s: Fire Modeling Institute (FMI)
May 5, 2021 1:00 am PDT
Special guest Greg Dillon of the USDA Forest Service's Fire Modeling Institute (FMI) gives an overview of the work FMI does in wildland fire.
Webinar hosted by National Weather Service IMET.
2nd San Jose State University Fire Weather Research Workshop
April 8, 2021 9:00 am PDT to April 9, 2021 12:00 pm PDT
This is the second Fire Weather Research Workshop at San Jose State University with the aim of providing the latest information and current state-of-knowledge on fire weather research to fire management agencies, scientists, students and other...
Colorado Prescribed Fire Council Virtual Meeting
March 8, 2021 9:00 am to 12:30 pm PST
Schedule Outline:
0900 - 0915 - Introduction, Rod Moraga, CoPFC Chair
0920 - 0955 - James White, Arapaho Roosevelt National Forest, Interactions Between the Cameron Peak Wildfire and Prescribed Burn Units
1000 - 1035 - Lisa...
Webinar Series - Alaska Drought
February 16, 2021 12:00 pm PST
Alaska Center for Climate Assesment and Policy presents: Alaska Drought Webinar Series
Hear from Rick Thoman, Alaska climate specialist, who will review past climate information focusing on unusual dry times and will provide a...