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Firebrand ignition of wildland fuels is an important pathway of initiation and propagation of wildland and wildland-urban interface fires. The ambient wind plays an important role in smouldering ignition of wildland fuels by firebrands, but its…
Author(s): Wei Fang, Jiuling Yang, Hiaxiang Chen, Linhe Zhang, Pengcheng Guo, Yukui Yuan
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There is a dire need to improve our prediction capabilities of wildland fire behavior in a range of conditions from marginal burning to the most extreme. In order to develop a more physically-based operational wildland fire behavior model, we need…
Author(s): Sara S. McAllister, Torben Grumstrup
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Fuel ignition potential is one of the primary drivers influencing the extent of damage in wildland and wildland–urban interface fires and it is a decisive factor in planning prescribed fires. Determining the susceptibility of fuels, which vary…
Author(s): Saurabh Saxena, Ritambhara Raj Dubey, Neda Yaghoobian
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The goal of this work is to develop a material model for Norway spruce and Scots pine woods for use in performance-based fire safety design to predict char front progress and heat release in burning timber. For both woods a set of two different…
Author(s): Aleksi Rinta-Paavola, Dmitry Sukhomlinov, S. Hostikka
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Background: Wildfire simultaneity affects the availability and distribution of resources for fire management: multiple small fires require more resources to fight than one large fire does. Aims: The aim of this study was to project the effects of…
Author(s): Seth McGinnis, Lee Kessenich, Linda Mearns, Alison Cullen, Harry Podschwit, Melissa S. Bukovsky
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Appropriately designed fuel treatments reduce negative outcomes of wildfire and in some cases promote beneficial wildfire outcomes. Wildfires are a landscape scale phenomenon; therefore, fuel treatments should be evaluated at a landscape level to…
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Post-fire debris flows represent one of the most erosive consequences associated with increasing wildfire severity and investigations into their downstream impacts have been limited. Recent advances have linked existing hydrogeomorphic models to…
Author(s): Sara A. Wall, Brendan P. Murphy, Patrick Belmont, Larissa L. Yocom
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Background: Recent increases in wildfire activity in the Western USA are commonly attributed to a confluence of factors including climate change, human activity, and the accumulation of fuels due to fire suppression. However, a shortage of long-term…
Author(s): Gabrielle Boisrame, Timothy J. Brown, Dominique Bachelet
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This paper presents a phenomenological framework for forecasting the area-integrated fire radiative power from wildfires. In the method, a region of interest is covered with a regular grid, whose cells are uniquely and independently parameterized…
Author(s): Tero M. Partanen, Mikhail Sofiev
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Payments for watershed services (PWS) programs are becoming a popular governance approach in the western United States (US) to fund forest management aimed at source water protection. In this paper we conduct a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of one of…
Author(s): Kelly W. Jones, Benjamin Gannon, Thomas Timberlake, James L. Chamberlain, Brett Wolk
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Charcoal identification and the quantification of its abundance in sedimentary archives is commonly used to reconstruct fire frequency and the amounts of biomass burning. There are, however, limited metrics to measure past fire temperature and fuel…
Author(s): S. Yoshi Maezumi, William D. Gosling, Judith Kirschner, Manuel Chevalier, Henk L. Cornelissen, Thilo Heinecke, Crystal H. McMichael
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With increasing forest and grassland wildfire trends strongly correlated to anthropogenic climate change, assessing wildfire danger is vital to reduce catastrophic human, economic, and environmental loss. From this viewpoint, the authors discuss…
Author(s): Sonisa Sharma, Kundan Dhakal
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The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) growth and yield model is widely used throughout the United States, but recent studies have reported unexpectedly large bias for some regional model variants. Here we propose a general framework for model…
Author(s): Benjamin A. Bagdon, Trung H. Nguyen, Anthony Vorster, Keith Paustian, John L. Field
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Bark beetle outbreaks and forest fires have imposed severe ecological damage and caused billions of dollars in lost resources in recent decades. The impact of such combined disturbances is projected to become more severe, especially as climate…
Author(s): Peter C. Jentsch, Chris T. Bauch, Madhur Anand
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Over the past century the size and severity of wildfires, as well as post-fire recovery processes (e.g., seedling establishment), have been altered from historical levels due to management policies and changing climate. Tree seedling establishment…
Author(s): Darcy H. Hammond, Eva K. Strand, Penelope Morgan, Andrew T. Hudak, Beth A. Newingham
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Wildland fires have a multitude of ecological effects in forests, woodlands, and savannas across the globe. A major focus of past research has been on tree mortality from fire, as trees provide a vast range of biological services. We assembled a…
Author(s): C. Alina Cansler, Sharon M. Hood, Phillip J. van Mantgem, J. Morgan Varner
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Wildfire is a natural element of many ecosystems as well as a natural disaster to be prevented. Climate and land usage changes have increased the number and size of wildfires in the last few decades. In this situation, governments must be able to…
Author(s): Adán Rodríguez-Martínez, Begoña Vitoriano
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Despite evident advances in knowledge and understanding concerning the application of prescribed burning for delivering benefits in wildfire control and a variety of sociocultural, economic and environmental outcomes, the practical application of…
Author(s): Jeremy Russell-Smith, Lachlan McCaw, Adam J. Leavesley
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Wildfire detection is a time-critical application as the difficulty to pinpoint ignition locations in a short time-frame often leads to the escalation of the severity of fire events. This problem has motivated considerable interest from expert…
Author(s): Maria João Sousa, Alexandra Moutinho, Miguel Almeida
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Wildland fires are globally widespread, constituting the primary forest disturbance in many ecosystems. Burn severity (fire-induced change to vegetation and soils) has short-term impacts on erosion and post-fire environments, and persistent effects…
Author(s): Ellen Whitman, Marc-Andre Parisien, Lisa M. Holsinger, Jane Park, Sean A. Parks
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