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2024

Smoldering Ignition and Transition to Flaming Combustion of Pine Needle Fuel Beds: Effects of Bulk Density and Heat Supply
Jiuling Yang et al.
Pixels to pyrometrics: UAS-derived infrared imagery to evaluate and monitor prescribed fire behaviour and effects
Leo O'Neill et al.
Trending and emerging prospects of physics-based and ML-based wildfire spread models: a comprehensive review
Harikesh Singh et al.
A monthly gridded burned area database of national wildland fire data
Andrina Gincheva et al.
Cross-landscape fuel moisture differences impact simulated fire behaviour
K. Little et al.
Relationships of fire rate of spread with spectral and geometric features derived from UAV-based photogrammetric point clouds
Juan Pedro Carbonell-Rivera et al.
Expanding our understanding of nitrogen dynamics after fire: how severe fire and aridity reduce ecosystem nitrogen retention
Maxwell Kay Strain et al.
Physical, social, and biological attributes for improved understanding and prediction of wildfires: FPA FOD-Attributes dataset
Yavar Pourmohamad et al.
Wildfire Spread Prediction Using Attention Mechanisms in U2-NET
Hongtao Xiao et al.
Wildland Firefighter Estimated Ground Evacuation Time Modeling to Support Risk-Informed Decision-Making
Michael J. Campbell et al.
Few large or many small fires: Using spatial scaling of severe fire to quantify effects of fire-size distribution shifts
Michele S. Buonanduci et al.
Correction: Smoldering of Wood: Effects of Wind and Fuel Geometry
Luca Carmignani et al.
Observations of a rotating pyroconvective plume
Neil P. Lareau et al.
Assessing changes in global fire regimes
Sayedeh Sara Sayedi

2023

Performance of fire danger indices and their utility in predicting future wildfire danger over the conterminous United States
Guo Yu et al.
Effect of flame zone depth on the correlation of flame length with fireline intensity
Mark A. Finney et al.
Size and energy distribution of firebrands produced from burning trees
Sampath Adusumilli et al.
Examining and Reforming the Rothermel Surface Fire Spread Model under No-Wind and Zero-Slope Conditions for the Karst Ecosystems
Yunlin Zhang et al.

2022

Improved accuracy of wildfire simulations using fuel hazard estimates based on environmental data
Trent D. Penman et al.
An analytical model for predicting the flame length of fire lines and tree crown scorching
Kuibin Zhou et al.
Determining Firebrand Generation Rate Using Physics-Based Modelling from Experimental Studies through Inverse Analysis
Amila Wickramasinghe et al.
Experimental study on fire spread over discrete fuel bed-Part II: Combined effects of wind and packing ratio
Qianqian He et al.
The interaction of double burner fire whirls
Katherine A. Hartl et al.
QES-Fire: a dynamically coupled fast-response wildfire model
Matt Moody et al.
Wildfire Rates of Spread in Grasslands under Critical Burning Conditions
Miguel G. Cruz et al.

2021

Optimum Sensors Allocation for a Forest Fires Monitoring System
Beatriz Azevedo et al.
Factors influencing the development of violent pyroconvection. Part II: fire geometry and intensity
Rachel Badlan et al.
Merging of Horizontally and Vertically Separated Small-Scale Buoyant Flames
Thomas H. Fletcher et al.
Reaction intensity partitioning: a new perspective of theNational Fire Danger Rating System Energy ReleaseComponent
Francis M. Fujioka et al.
Objective identification of thunderstorm gust fronts in numerical weather prediction models for fire weather forecasting
Jim Bresch et al.
Global sensitivity analysis for uncertainty quantification in fire spread models
Ujjwal KC et al.
Investigating Coupled Effect of Radiative Heat Flux and Firebrand Showers on Ignition of Fuel Beds
Sayaka Suzuki et al.
Factors influencing the development of violent pyroconvection. Part I: fire size and stability
Rachel Badlan et al.
Downscaled GCM climate projections of fire weather over Victoria, Australia. Part 1*: evaluation of the MACA technique
Scott Clark et al.

2020

Soft-computing-centric framework for wildfire monitoring, prediction and forecasting
Harkiran Kaur et al.
Combined estimation of fire perimeters and fuel adjustment factors in FARSITE for forecasting wildland fire propagation
Tengjiao Zhou et al.
Verification of Red Flag Warnings across the Northwestern U.S. as Forecasts of Large Fire Occurrence
Josh Clark et al.
Towards the Development of a Probabilistic Approach to Informal Settlement Fire Spread Using Ignition Modelling and Spatial Metrics
Antonio Cicione et al.
Global fire season severity analysis and forecasting
Leonardo N. Ferreira et al.
Mathematical modeling of wildland fire initiation and spread
Vladimir Agranat et al.
Anthropogenic and lightning-started fires are becoming larger and more frequent over a longer season length in the U.S.A.
Megan E. Cattau et al.
Drivers of long-distance spotting during wildfires in south-eastern Australia
Michael A. Storey et al.
Causes and consequences of Eastern Australia’s 2019–20 season of mega‐fires: A broader perspective
Mark A. Adams et al.
Effects of material thickness on ignition times and creeping flame spread in the thermal regime: Theory, analytical solution and experimental justification
Michael Delichatsios
Effect of weather forecast errors on fire growth model projections
Trent D. Penman et al.
The effect of preheating on fire propagation on inclined wood by multi-spectrum and schlieren visualisation
Yufeng Lai et al.
Frequency of Dynamic Fire Behaviours in Australian Forest Environments
Alexander I. Filkov et al.
Fire behaviour in wheat crops - effect of fuel structure on rate of fire spread
Miguel G. Cruz et al.
Evaluation of Global Fire Weather Database reanalysis and short-term forecast products
Robert Field
A multiscale model of wood pyrolysis in fire to study the roles of chemistry and heat transfer at the mesoscale
Franz Richter et al.
A convective–radiative propagation model for wildland fires
Jacques Henri Balbi et al.
Effects of fuel characteristics on horizontal spread rate and ground surface temperatures of smouldering duff
Daniel A. Cowan et al.
Determination of Firebrand Characteristics Using Thermal Videos
Sergey Prohanov et al.
Exploring fire response to high wind speeds: fire rate of spread, energy release and flame residence time from fires burned in pine needle beds under winds up to 27 m s−1
Bret W. Butler et al.
Two methods for calculating wildland fire rate of forward spread
James S. Gould et al.
Lateral flame spread over PMMA under forced air flow
Kun Zhao et al.
Extreme wildfire events and disasters : root causes and new management strategies

2019

Pixel-level statistical analyses of prescribed fire spread
Miles Currie et al.
Adjusting the rate of spread of fire simulations in real-time
Adrián Cardil et al.
A review of a new generation of wildfire–atmosphere modeling
A. Bakhshaii et al.
Classification of potential fire outbreaks: a fuzzy modeling approach based on thermal images
Maria João Sousa et al.
Inferring energy incident on sensors in low-intensity surface fires from remotely sensed radiation and using it to predict tree stem injury
Matthew B. Dickinson et al.
Observations of turbulent heat and momentum fluxes during wildland fires in forested environments
Warren Heilman et al.
Reply to Cruz and Alexander: Comments on “Evaluating Crown Fire Rate of Spread Predictions from Physics-Based Models"
Chad M. Hoffman et al.
Applications of simulation-based burn probability modelling: a review
Marc-Andre Parisien et al.
The Vegetation Structure Perpendicular Index (VSPI): A forest condition index for wildfire predictions
Andrea Massetti et al.
Can peat soil support a flaming wildfire?
Shaorun Lin et al.

2018

Advancing the Science of Wildland Fire Dynamics Using Process-Based Models
Chad M. Hoffman et al.
Scaling nonreactive cross flow over a heated plate to simulate forest fires
Nikolay Gustenyov et al.
Live Fuel Moisture Content: The ‘Pea Under the Mattress’ of Fire Spread Rate Modeling?
Carlos G. Rossa et al.
Fire spread across a sloping fuel bed: flame dynamics and heat transfers
Frederic Morandini et al.
The Cooney Ridge Fire Experiment: An Early Operation to Relate Pre-, Active, and Post-Fire Field and Remotely Sensed Measurements
Andrew T. Hudak et al.
Boundary layer instabilities in mixed convection and diffusion flames with an unheated starting length
Colin H. Miller et al.
Use of ordinary kriging and Gaussian conditional simulation to interpolate airborne fire radiative energy density estimates [Corrigendum]
C. Klauberg et al.
Dimensional analysis on forest fuel bed fire spread
Jiann C. Yang
Some requirements for simulating wildland fire behavior using insight from coupled weather-wildland fire models
Janice L. Coen
An improved non-equilibrium model for the ignition of living fuel
A. Lamorlette et al.
Conditional Performance Evaluation: Using Wildfire Observations for Systematic Fire Simulator Development
Thomas J. Duff et al.
An evaluation of NDFD weather forecasts for wildland fire behavior prediction
Wesley G. Page et al.
Simulation study of grass fire using a physics-based model: striving towards numerical rigour and the effect of grass height on the rate of spread
K. A. M. Moinuddin et al.
Corrigendum 1 (published 19 Sep 2018) and Corrigendum 2 (published 11 Dec 2018) to: Wildland fires behaviour: wind effect versus Byram’s convective number and consequences upon the regime of propagation
D. Morvan et al.
Analysis of the physical processes associated with junction fires at laboratory and field scales
J. R. Raposo et al.
Some Requirements for Simulating Wildland Fire Behavior Using Insight from Coupled Weather—Wildland Fire Models
Janice L. Coen

2017

An uncertainty analysis of wildfire modeling [Chapter 13]
Karen L. Riley et al.
Fuel-related fire-behaviour relationships for mixed live and dead fuels burned in the laboratory
Carlos G. Rossa et al.
Spatiotemporal dynamics of simulated wildfire, forest management, and forest succession in central Oregon, USA
Ana M. G. Barros et al.
Qualitative flow visualization of flame attachment on slopes
Torben Grumstrup et al.
Towards improving wildland firefighter situational awareness through daily fire behaviour risk assessments in the US Northern Rockies and Northern Great Basin
William Matt Jolly et al.
An improved canopy wind model for predicting wind adjustment factors and wildland fire behavior
William J. Massman et al.
Evidence of fuels management and fire weather influencing fire severity in an extreme fire event
Jamie M. Lydersen et al.

2016

A stochastic mixed integer program to model spatial wildfire behavior and suppression placement decisions with uncertain weather
Erin J. Belval et al.
The net benefits of human-ignited wildfire forecasting: the case of tribal land units in the United States
Jeffrey P. Prestemon et al.
Near-term probabilistic forecast of significant wildfire events for the western United States
Haiganoush K. Preisler et al.
Autoignition of wood under combined convective and radiative heating
Sara S. McAllister et al.
Observations of energy transport and rate of spreads from low-intensity fires in longleaf pine habitat - Rxcadre 2012
Bret W. Butler et al.
A comparison of level set and marker methods for the simulation of wildland fire front propagation
Anthony S. Bova et al.
Predicting large wildfires across western North America by modeling seasonal variation in soil water balance
Richard H. Waring et al.
Burning rates of wood cribs with implications for wildland fires
Sara S. McAllister et al.
Weather, fuels, and topography impede wildland fire spread in western US landscapes
Lisa M. Holsinger et al.
Quantifying the influence of previously burned areas on suppression effectiveness and avoided exposure: a case study of the Las Conchas Fire
Matthew P. Thompson et al.
The effect of wind on burning rate of wood cribs
Sara S. McAllister et al.

2015

Evaluating crown fire rate of spread predictions from physics-based models
Chad M. Hoffman et al.
Warning signals for eruptive events in spreading fires
Jerome M. Fox et al.
A wildfire-relevant climatology of the convective environment of the United States
Brian E. Potter et al.
Experimental analysis of fire spread across a two-dimensional ridge under wind conditions
J. R. Raposo et al.
Modeling spatial and temporal dynamics of wind flow and potential fire behavior following a mountain pine beetle outbreak in a lodgepole pine forest
Chad M. Hoffman et al.

2014

Representation and evaluation of wildfire propagation simulations
Jean-Baptiste Filippi et al.
Large wildfire trends in the western United States, 1984-2011
Philip E. Dennison et al.
Spectroscopic analysis of seasonal changes in live fuel moisture content and leaf dry mass
Yi Qi et al.
Crown fire potential in lodgepole pine forests during the red stage of mountain pine beetle attack
Wesley G. Page et al.
Regional projections of the likelihood of very large wildland fires under a changing climate in the contiguous western United States
E. Natasha Stavros et al.

2013

Fire weather case study - Mann Gulch Fire, Montana
Paul A. Werth
Modelling conditional burn probability patterns for large wildland fires
Pamela S. Ziesler et al.
Optimising fuel treatments over time and space
Woodam Chung et al.
Uncertainty associated with model predictions of surface and crown fire rates of spread
Miguel G. Cruz et al.
Developing a computerized approach for optimizing individual tree removal to efficiently reduce crown fire potential
Marco A. Contreras et al.
Models for predicting fuel consumption in sagebrush-dominated ecosystems
Clinton S. Wright
The relationship of large fire occurrence with drought and fire danger indices in the western USA, 1984-2008: the role of temporal scale
Karen L. Riley et al.
Current status and future needs of the BehavePlus Fire Modeling System
Patricia L. Andrews
Combustibility of a mixture of live and dead fuel components
Domingos Xavier Viegas et al.
Relationships between climate and macroscale area burned in the western United States
John T. Abatzoglou et al.
Surface fire intensity influences simulated crown fire behavior in lodgepole pine forests with recent mountain pine beetle-caused tree mortality
Chad M. Hoffman et al.
Are the applications of wildland fire behaviour models getting ahead of their evaluation again?
Martin E. Alexander et al.
Angular variation of fire rate of spread
Jorge C. S. Andre et al.

2012

Do mountain pine beetle outbreaks change the probability of active crown fire in lodgepole pine forests? Comment 1 & 2, Reply 1
Christopher J. Moran et al.
Numerical simulation of crown fire hazard immediately after bark beetle-caused mortality in lodgepole pine forests
Chad M. Hoffman et al.
Modeling tree-level fuel connectivity to evaluate the effectiveness of thinning treatments for reducing crown fire potential
Marco A. Contreras et al.

2011

A method for ensemble wildland fire simulation
Mark A. Finney et al.
Simulating fuel treatment effects in dry forests of the western United States: testing the principles of a fire-safe forest
Morris C. Johnson et al.
Analyzing wildfire exposure and source-sink relationships on a fire prone forest landscape
Alan A. Ager et al.
A comparison of statistical downscaling methods suited for wildfire applications
John T. Abatzoglou et al.
Linking 3D spatial models of fuels and fire: effects of spatial heterogeneity on fire behavior
Russell A. Parsons et al.

2010

Assessing crown fire potential in coniferous forests of western North America: a critique of current approaches and recent simulation studies
Miguel G. Cruz et al.
Effects of biomass removal treatments on stand-level fire characteristics in major forest types of the Northern Rocky Mountains
Elizabeth D. Reinhardt et al.
Fire-climate interactions in the American west since 1400 CE
Valerie Trouet et al.
Evaluating the ecological benefits of wildfire by integrating fire and ecosystem simulation models
Robert E. Keane et al.

2009

Wildland surface fire spread modelling, 1990-2007. 2: Empirical and quasi-empirical models
Andrew L. Sullivan
Fuel treatment guidebook: illustrating treatment effects on fire hazard
Crystal L. Raymond
Wildland surface fire spread modelling, 1990-2007. 3: Simulation and mathematical analogue models
Andrew L. Sullivan
Wildland surface fire spread modelling, 1990-2007. 1: Physical and quasi-physical models
Andrew L. Sullivan

2008

Temporal and spatial structure in a daily wildfire-start data set from the western United States (1986-96)
Patrick J. Bartlein et al.

2007

Statistical model for forecasting monthly large wildfire events in the western United States
Haiganoush K. Preisler et al.
Predicted fire behavior in selected mountain pine beetle-infested lodgepole pine
Wesley G. Page et al.
Simulation of long-term landscape-level fuel treatment effects on large wildfires
Mark A. Finney et al.
Contingent pacific-atlantic ocean influence on multicentury wildfire synchrony over western North America
Thomas Kitzberger et al.
A physics-based approach to modelling grassland fires
William E. Mell et al.

2006

Regional relationships between climate and wildfire-burned area in the Interior West, USA
Brandon M. Collins et al.
Evaluation of MM5 model resolution when applied to prediction of National Fire Danger Rating indexes
Jeanne L. Hoadley et al.

2005

Evaluation of the Experimental Climate Prediction Center's fire danger forecasts with remote automated weather station observations
Hauss J. Reinbold et al.
Evaluation of the Experimental Climate Prediction Center's fire danger forecasts with remote automated weather station observations
Hauss J. Reinbold et al.

2004

The impact of twenty-first century climate change on wildland fire danger in the western United States: an applications perspective
Timothy J. Brown et al.

2003

Assessing canopy fuel stratum characteristics in crown fire prone fuel types of western North America
Martin E. Alexander et al.
Climate and wildfire in the western United States
Anthony L. Westerling et al.
Statistical forecasts of the 2003 western wildfire season using canonical correlation analysis
Anthony L. Westerling et al.

2002

Long lead statistical forecasts of area burned in western U.S. wildfires by ecosystem province
Anthony L. Westerling et al.
The 2000 fire season: lightning-caused fires
Miriam L. Rorig et al.

2001

Statistical forecast of the 2001 western wildfire season using principal components regression
Anthony L. Westerling et al.

2000

Simulating fire patterns in heterogeneous landscapes
William W. Hargrove et al.

1995

Intermountain West lightning-caused fires: climatic predictors of area burned
Paul A. Knapp

1994

A statistical-topographic model for mapping climatological precipitation over mountainous terrain
Christopher Daly et al.

1993

The evaluation of Idaho wildfire growth using the Haines Index
Paul A. Werth et al.

1991

Predicting behavior of the 1988 Yellowstone fires: projections versus reality
Richard C. Rothermel

1990

The Haines Index and Idaho fire growth
Paul A. Werth et al.

1984

Wildland fires: predicting the behavior of wildland fires-among nature's most potent forces-can save lives, money, and natural resources
Frank A. Albini
Modeling behavior of prescribed fires in Yosemite National Park
Jan W. van Wagtendonk et al.

1957

The relationship of jet streams to forest fires
V. J. Schaefer

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