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Simulation Modeling

This subtopic indicates that the publication used computer-simulation techniques, rather than actual fire behavior observations in the field, to create its conclusions.

Upcoming Events

None.

Past Events

Fire Effects Monitoring and Technology Workshop
October 15, 2018 to October 21, 2018

Webinars/Videos

Exposure Analysis in IFTDSS
May 28, 2020
Jennifer Anderson, Chris Boldman
IFTDSS Briefing 2020
Feb 21, 2020
Kim Ernstrom, Caroline Noble, Nicole M. Vaillant
An Introduction to the New U.S. National Fire Danger Rating
Feb 5, 2020
William Matt Jolly
FlamMap 6.0 Webinar
Jan 22, 2020
Charles W. McHugh
Landscape Burn probability modeling - Fall 2019
Dec 17, 2019
IFTDSS Development Status and Using Map Values - Fall 2019
Nov 26, 2019
Kim Emstrom, Joshua C. Hyde
Landscape Burn Probability Walk-Through
Aug 1, 2019
Modeling and Mapping the Potential for High Severity Fire in the Western U.S.
Oct 10, 2018
Sean A. Parks
BehavePlus Updates and Changes
May 16, 2018
Faith A. Heinsch
Introduction to the 2017 Prescribed Fire Complexity Rating System Guide and Worksheets
Mar 20, 2018
National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG)
The US National Fire Danger Rating System: Past, Present and Future
Mar 9, 2018
William Matt Jolly, Larry S. Bradshaw, Patrick H. Freeborn
Introduction to Fire Behavior Fuel Models
Dec 8, 2017
FSPro settings
Nov 29, 2017
Mark A. Finney
FSPro Calibration
Oct 23, 2017
Mark A. Finney
NFDRS Episode 1 - NFDRS Indices and Components
Jul 27, 2016
NFDRS Episode 2 - NFDRS 2016: A Quick Introduction
Jul 27, 2016
NFDRS Episode 3 - Fire Weather Data Collection and Distribution
Jul 20, 2016

Research Briefs

2020 Asking "What-if" Questions: New ST-Sim Tool Helps Managers Forecast Future Rangeland Conditions
Jessica M. Brewen
2006 Fuel Treatment Evaluator 3.0
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
2004 Evaluating ASTER imagery and gradient modeling for mapping wildland fire fuels
Michael J. Falkowski
1964 Calculating the National Fire-Danger Rating spread index by computer
Richard J. Barney
1964 Conversion tables for use with the National Fire-Danger Rating System in the Intermountain Area
Dwight S. Stockstad, Richard J. Barney

Syntheses

2015 Modeling fuel treatment impacts on fire suppression cost savings: a review
Matthew P. Thompson, Nathaniel Anderson
2013 Wildland fire emissions, carbon, and climate: modeling fuel consumption
Roger D. Ottmar
2009 Wildland surface fire spread modelling, 1990-2007. 1: Physical and quasi-physical models
Andrew L. Sullivan
2009 Wildland surface fire spread modelling, 1990-2007. 2: Empirical and quasi-empirical models
Andrew L. Sullivan
2009 Wildland surface fire spread modelling, 1990-2007. 3: Simulation and mathematical analogue models
Andrew L. Sullivan

Publications/Reports

2020 Modelling the effect of accelerated forest management on long-term wildfire activity
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Alan A. Ager, Ana M. G. Barros, Rachel M. Houtman, Robert C. Seli, Michelle A. Day
2020 LES simulation of terrain slope effects on wind enhancement by a point source fire
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Esmaeel Eftekharian, Maria Rashidi, Maryam Ghodrat, Yaping He, Kenny C.S. Kwok
2020 Animals as agents in fire regimes
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Claire N. Foster, Sam C. Banks, Geoffrey J. Cary, Christopher N. Johnson, David B. Lindenmayer, Leonie E. Valentine
2020 Evaluation of Global Fire Weather Database reanalysis and short-term forecast products
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Robert Field
2020 Simulating the Effectiveness of Improvement Cuts and Commercial Thinning to Enhance Fire Resistance in West Coast Dry Mixed Conifer Forests
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Theresa B. Jain, Jeremy S. Fried, Sara Loreno
2020 The effect of ignition protocol on grassfire development
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Duncan Sutherland, J. Sharples, K. A. M. Moinuddin
2020 Learning-based prediction of wildfire spread with real-time rate of spread measurement
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Chunjie Zhai, Siyu Zhang, Zhaolou Cao, Xinmeng Wang
2020 Integrating fire effects on vegetation carbon cycling within an ecohydrologic model
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Ryan R. Bart, Maureen C. Kennedy, Christina Tague, Donald McKenzie
2020 A machine-learning framework for rapid adaptive digital-twin based fire-propagation simulation in complex environments
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
T. J. Zohdi
2020 Global fire season severity analysis and forecasting
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Leonardo N. Ferreira, Didier A. Vega-Oliveros, Liang Zhao, Manoel F. Cardoso, Elbert E.N. Macau
2020 Wildfires front dynamics: 3D structures and intensity at small and large scales
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
N. Frangieh, Gilbert Accary, D. Morvan, Sofiane Meradji, Oleg Bessonov
2020 Ground wind generated near the base by the massive convective column of very large-scale mass fires
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Michael Delichatsios, Jianping Zhang
2020 Predicting Emission Source Terms in a Reduced-Order Fire Spread Model—Part 1: Particulate Emissions
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Alexander J. Josephson, Troy M. Holland, Sara Brambilla, Michael J. Brown, Rodman Linn
2020 Mathematical modeling of wildland fire initiation and spread
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Vladimir Agranat, Valeriy Perminov
2020 QUIC-fire: a fast-running simulation tool for prescribed fire planning
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Rodman Linn, Scott L. Goodrick, Sara Brambilla, Martin J. Brown, R. S. Middleton, Joseph J. O'Brien, J. Kevin Hiers
2020 Wildfire detection using transfer learning on augmented datasets
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Maria João Sousa, Alexandra Moutinho, Miguel Almeida
2019 Integrated fire severity–land cover mapping using very-high-spatial-resolution aerial imagery and point clouds
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Jeremy Arkin, Nicholas C. Coops, Txomin Hermosilla, Lori D. Daniels, Andrew Plowright
2019 Setting wildfire evacuation triggers by coupling fire and traffic simulation models: a spatiotemporal GIS approach
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Dapeng Li, Thomas J. Cova, Philip E. Dennison
2019 Ensemble transform Kalman filter (ETKF) for large-scale wildland fire spread simulation using FARSITE tool and state estimation method
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Tengjiao Zhou, Long Ding, Jie Ji, Lin Li, Weiwei Huang
2019 Burn probability simulation and subsequent wildland fire activity in Alberta, Canada – Implications for risk assessment and strategic planning
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Jennifer L. Beverly, Neal McLoughlin
2019 A web-based wildfire simulator for operational applications
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Bachisio Arca, Tiziano Ghisu, Marcello Casula, Michele Salis, Pierpaolo Duce
2019 The Vegetation Structure Perpendicular Index (VSPI): A forest condition index for wildfire predictions
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Andrea Massetti, Christoph Rüdiger, Marta Yebra, J. E. Hilton
2019 Long-Term Impacts of Fuel Treatment Placement with Respect to Forest Cover Type on Potential Fire Behavior across a Mountainous Landscape
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Seth A. Ex, Justin P. Ziegler, Wade T. Tinkham, Chad M. Hoffman
2019 Simulation of forest fires based on a two-dimensional three-phase model
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Andrey A. Kuleshov, Elena E. Myshetskaya, Sergey E. Yakush
2019 Modelling the fire propagation from the fuel bed to the lower canopy of ornamental species used in wildland–urban interfaces
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
L. Terrei, Aymeric Lamorlette, Anne Ganteaume
2019 A review of a new generation of wildfire–atmosphere modeling
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
A. Bakhshaii, E. A. Johnson
2019 Applications of simulation-based burn probability modelling: a review
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Marc-Andre Parisien, Denyse A. Dawe, Carol Miller, Christopher A. Stockdale, O. Bradley Armitage
2019 Standardized process to generate mapping of priority areas for protection against wildfires
Conference Proceedings
José G. Flores Garnica, Uri David Casillas Díaz, Alejandra Macías Muro
2019 Contrasting human influences and macro-environmental factors on fire activity inside and outside protected areas of North America
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Nicolas Mansuy, Carol Miller, Marc-Andre Parisien, Sean A. Parks, Enric Batllori, Max A. Moritz
2019 Exposure Complexity and Community Capacity to Manage Wildfire Risk: A Coupled Biophysical and Social Analysis of 60 Communities in the Western United States
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Max W. Nielsen-Pincus, Cody Evers, Alan A. Ager
2019 Assessing and reinitializing wildland fire simulations through satellite active fire data
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Adrián Cardil, Santiago Monedero, Joaquin Ramírez, Alberto Silva
2019 Reply to Cruz and Alexander: Comments on “Evaluating Crown Fire Rate of Spread Predictions from Physics-Based Models"
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Chad M. Hoffman, J. Ziegler, R. R. Linn, J. Canfield, W. Mell, Carolyn Hull Sieg, F. Pimont
2019 A spatial optimization model for resource allocation for wildfire suppression and resident evacuation
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Siqiong Zhou, Ayca Erdogan
2019 Rating Fire Danger from the Ground Up
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Matthew R. Levi, Erik S. Krueger, Grant J. Snitker, Tyson Ochsner, Miguel L. Villarreal, Emile H. Elias, Dannele E. Peck
2019 Evaluating ecological resilience across wildfire suppression levels under climate and fuel treatment scenarios using landscape simulation modelling
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Robert E. Keane, Kathy L. Gray, Brett Davis, Lisa M. Holsinger, Rachel A. Loehman
2019 Wildland Fire Spread Modeling Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Jonathan L. Hodges, Brian Y. Lattimer
2019 A landscape model of variable social-ecological fire regimes
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Robert M. Scheller, Alec Kretchun, Todd J. Hawbaker, Paul D. Henne
2019 Predictive modeling of wildfires: a new dataset and machine learning approach
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Younes Oulad Sayad, Hajar Mousannif, Hassan Al Moatassime
2019 firebehavioR: An R Package for Fire Behavior and Danger Analysis
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Justin P. Ziegler, Chad M. Hoffman, William E. Mell
2019 On the merits of sparse surrogates for global sensitivity analysis of multi-scale nonlinear problems: application to turbulence and fire-spotting model in wildland fire simulators
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Andrea Trucchia, Vera N. Egorova, Gianni Pagnini, M. C. Rochoux
2019 A promising new approach to estimate drought indices for fire danger assessment using remotely sensed data
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Melanie Häusler, João Pedro Nunes, João M. N. Silva, Jan J. Keizer, Thorsten Warneke, Jose M. C. Pereira
2019 Climate seasonality as an essential predictor of global fire activity
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Michael V. Saha, Todd M. Scanlon, Paolo D'Odorico
2019 Pixel-level statistical analyses of prescribed fire spread
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Miles Currie, Kevin Speer, J. Kevin Hiers, Joseph J. O'Brien, Scott L. Goodrick, Bryan Quaife
2019 Development and Evaluation of a Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Solver in WindNinja for Operational Wildland Fire Applications
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Natalie S. Wagenbrenner, Jason M. Forthofer, Wesley G. Page, Bret W. Butler
2019 A Cautionary Note Regarding the Use of Cumulative Burnt Areas for the Determination of Fire Danger Index Breakpoints
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
F. Pimont, Julien Ruffault, Nicolas K. Martin-StPaul, Jean-Luc Dupuy
2019 Mortality reconsidered: Testing and extending models of fire-induced tree mortality across the US - JFSP Final Report
Technical Report or White Paper
Sharon M. Hood, J. Morgan Varner, C. Alina Cansler
2019 A review of a new generation of wildfire–atmosphere modeling
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
A. Bakhshaii, E. A. Johnson
2019 Adjusting the rate of spread of fire simulations in real-time
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Adrián Cardil, Santiago Monedero, C. A. Silva, Joaquin Ramírez
2019 Use of landscape simulation modeling to quantify resilience for ecological applications
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Robert E. Keane, Rachel A. Loehman, Lisa M. Holsinger, Donald A. Falk, Philip E. Higuera, Sharon M. Hood, Paul F. Hessburg
2019 Combining optimization and simulation modelling to measure the cumulative impacts of prescribed fire and wildfire on vegetation species diversity
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Matthew P. Chick, Alan York, Holly Sitters, Julian Di Stefano, Craig R. Nitschke
2019 User guide to the FireCLIME Vulnerability Assessment (VA) tool: A rapid and flexible system for assessing ecosystem vulnerability to climate-fire interactions
Technical Report or White Paper
Megan Friggens, Rachel A. Loehman, Andrea E. Thode, William T. Flatley, A. Evans, C. Wilcox, S. Mueller, Larissa L. Yocom, Donald A. Falk
2019 Investigating the application of a hybrid space discretisation for urban scale evacuation simulation
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Nitish Chooramun, Peter J. Lawrence, Edwin R. Galea
2019 Evaluating Model Predictions of Fire Induced Tree Mortality Using Wildfire-Affected Forest Inventory Measurements
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Jason S. Barker, Jeremy S. Fried, Andrew N. Grey
2019 Response of simulated burned area to historical changes in environmental and anthropogenic factors: a comparison of seven fire models
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Lina Teckentrup, Stijn Hantson, Angelika Heil, Joe R. Melton, Matthew Forrest, Fang Li, Chao Yue, Almut Arneth, Thomas Hickler, Stephen Sitch, Gitta Lasslop
2019 Modelling of the Radiant Heat Flux and Rate of Spread of Wildfire within the Urban Environment
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Greg Penney, Steven Richardson
2019 Scalability of a multi-physics system for forest fire spread prediction in multi-core platforms
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Angel Farguell, Ana Cortés, Tomàs Margalef, Josep R. Miró, J. Mercader
2018 Effect of woody debris on the rate of spread of surface fires in forest fuels in a combustion wind tunnel
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Andrew L. Sullivan, N. C. Surawski, Daniel A. Crawford, Richard J. Hurley, Liubov Volkova, Christopher J. Weston, Carl P. Meyer
2018 Optimizing smoke and plume rise modeling approaches at local scales
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Derek V. Mallia, Adam K. Kochanski, Shawn P. Urbanski, John C. Lin
2018 Data Descriptor: TerraClimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958-2015
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
John T. Abatzoglou, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Sean A. Parks, Katherine C. Hegewisch
2018 Wildfire fuel management: network-based models and optimization of prescribed burning
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Dmytro Matsypura, Oleg A. Prokopyev, Aizat Zahar
2018 Existence of solution of a forest fire spread model
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Michal Fečkan, Július Pačuta
2018 Incorporating convective feedback in wildfire simulations using pyrogenic potential
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
J. E. Hilton, Andrew L. Sullivan, W. Swedosh, J. Sharples, C. Thomas
2018 Interpolation framework to speed up near-surface wind simulations for data-driven wildfire applications
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
O. Rios, W. Jahn, Elsa Pastor, M.M. Valero, E. Planas
2018 Random subset feature selection for ecological niche models of wildfire activity in western North America
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
James L. Tracy, Antonio Trabucco, A. Michelle Lawing, J. Tomasz Giermakowski, Maria D. Tchakerian, Gail M. Drus, Robert N. Coulson
2018 Some requirements for simulating wildland fire behavior using insight from coupled weather-wildland fire models
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Janice L. Coen
2018 Modeling Fire Pathways in Montane Grassland−Forest Ecotones
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Joshua L. Conver, Donald A. Falk, Stephen R. Yool, Robert R. Parmenter
2018 A model-based framework to evaluate alternative wildfire suppression strategies
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Karen L. Riley, Matthew P. Thompson, Joe H. Scott, Julie W. Gilbertson-Day
2018 A comparison of the US National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) with recorded fire occurrence and final fire size
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Nicholas G. Walding, Hywel T. P. Williams, Scott McGarvie, Claire M. Belcher
2018 Framework for submodel improvement in wildfire modeling
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
M. El Houssami, A. Lamorlette, D. Morvan, Rory Hadden, Albert Simeoni
2018 Quantile regression: an alternative approach to modelling forest area burned by individual fires
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Baburam Rijal
2018 An improved non-equilibrium model for the ignition of living fuel
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
A. Lamorlette, M. El Houssami, D. Morvan
2018 Advancing the Science of Wildland Fire Dynamics Using Process-Based Models
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Chad M. Hoffman, Carolyn Hull Sieg, Rodman Linn, William E. Mell, Russell A. Parsons, Justin P. Ziegler, J. Kevin Hiers
2018 The sensitivity of US wildfire occurrence to pre-season soil moisture conditions across ecosystems
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Daniel Jensen, John T. Reager, Brittany Zajic, Nick Rousseau, Matthew Rodell, Everett Hinkley
2018 An Empirical Model for the Effect of Wind on Fire Spread Rate
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Carlos G. Rossa, Paulo M. Fernandes
2018 The Rothermel surface fire spread model and associated developments: A comprehensive explanation
Technical Report or White Paper
Patricia L. Andrews
2018 Modeling thinning effects on fire behavior with STANDFIRE
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Russell A. Parsons, F. Pimont, Lucas Wells, Greg M. Cohn, William Matt Jolly, Francois P. deColigny, Eric Rigolot, Jean-Luc Dupuy, William E. Mell, Rodman Linn
2018 Some Requirements for Simulating Wildland Fire Behavior Using Insight from Coupled Weather—Wildland Fire Models
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Janice L. Coen
2018 Observations and predictability of gap winds in the Salmon River Canyon of Central Idaho, USA
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Natalie S. Wagenbrenner, Jason M. Forthofer, Chris Gibson, Abby Indreland, Brian K. Lamb, Bret W. Butler
2018 Conditional Performance Evaluation: Using Wildfire Observations for Systematic Fire Simulator Development
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Thomas J. Duff, Jane G. Cawson, Brett Cirulis, Petter Nyman, Gary J. Sheridan, Kevin G. Tolhurst
2018 Modeling Fire Pathways in Montane Grassland−Forest Ecotones
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Joshua L. Conver, Donald A. Falk, Stephen R. Yool, Robert R. Parmenter
2017 Evaluating spatiotemporal tradeoffs under alternative fuel management and suppression policies: measuring returns on investment - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Technical Report or White Paper
Matthew P. Thompson, Karen L. Riley, Dan R. Loeffler, Jessica R. Haas
2017 Hierarchical 3D fuel and consumption maps to support physics-based fire modeling - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Technical Report or White Paper
Andrew T. Hudak, Susan J. Prichard, Robert E. Keane, E. Louise Loudermilk, Russell A. Parsons, Carl A. Seielstad, Eric Rowell, Nick Skowronski
2017 Modeling support for FASMEE experimental design using WRF-SFIRECHEM - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Technical Report or White Paper
Adam K. Kochanski, Jan Mandel, Aimé Fournier, Mary Ann Jenkins
2017 Effects of accelerated wildfire on future fire regimes and implications for the United States federal fire policy
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Alan A. Ager, Ana M. G. Barros, Haiganoush K. Preisler, Michelle A. Day, Thomas A. Spies, John D. Bailey, John P. Bolte
2017 Simulated fire behaviour in young, postfire lodgepole pine forests
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Kellen N. Nelson, Monica G. Turner, William H. Romme, Daniel B. Tinker
2017 An improved canopy wind model for predicting wind adjustment factors and wildland fire behavior
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
William J. Massman, Jason M. Forthofer, Mark A. Finney
2017 An uncertainty analysis of wildfire modeling [Chapter 13]
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Karen L. Riley, Matthew P. Thompson
2017 Spatially explicit measurements of forest structure and fire behavior following restoration treatments in dry forests
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
J. Ziegler, Chad M. Hoffman, Michael A. Battaglia, William E. Mell
2017 Predicting post-fire tree mortality for 12 western US conifers using the First-Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM)
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Sharon M. Hood, Duncan C. Lutes
2017 Spatiotemporal dynamics of simulated wildfire, forest management, and forest succession in central Oregon, USA
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Ana M. G. Barros, Alan A. Ager, Michelle A. Day, Haiganoush K. Preisler, Thomas A. Spies, Eric M. White, Robert J. Pabst, Keith A. Olsen, Emily K. Platt, John D. Bailey, John P. Bolte
2017 Network analysis of wildfire transmission and implications for risk governance
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Alan A. Ager, Cody Evers, Michelle A. Day, Haiganoush K. Preisler, Ana M. G. Barros, Max W. Nielsen-Pincus
2017 The normal fire environment—Modeling environmental suitability for large forest wildfires using past, present, and future climate normals
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Raymond J. Davis, Zhiqiang Yang, Andrew Yost, Cole Belongie, Warren B. Cohen
2017 How to generate and interpret fire characteristics charts for the U.S. fire danger rating system
Technical Report or White Paper
Faith A. Heinsch, Patricia L. Andrews, D. A. Tirmenstein
2016 High-resolution infrared thermography for capturing wildland fire behaviour: RxCADRE 2012
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Joseph J. O'Brien, E. Louise Loudermilk, Benjamin Hornsby, Andrew T. Hudak, Benjamin C. Bright, Matthew B. Dickinson, J. Kevin Hiers, Casey Teske, Roger D. Ottmar
2016 Development of the rangeland vegetation simulator: a module for FVS
Technical Report or White Paper
Matthew C. Reeves
2016 A stochastic mixed integer program to model spatial wildfire behavior and suppression placement decisions with uncertain weather
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Erin J. Belval, Yu Wei, Michael Bevers
2016 STANDFIRE: an IFT-DSS module for spatially explicit, 3D fuel treatment analysis - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Technical Report or White Paper
Russell A. Parsons, Lucas Wells, F. Pimont, William Matt Jolly, Rodman Linn, William E. Mell
2016 Incorporating resource protection constraints in an analysis of landscape fuel-treatment effectiveness in the northern Sierra Nevada, CA, USA
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Christopher B. Dow, Brandon M. Collins, Scott L. Stephens
2016 Assessing the effectiveness of spatially heterogeneous fuels reduction restoration treatments - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Technical Report or White Paper
Chad M. Hoffman, Michael A. Battaglia, Tony S. Cheng, Yvette Dickinson, Frederick W. Smith
2016 Near-term probabilistic forecast of significant wildfire events for the western United States
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Haiganoush K. Preisler, Karen L. Riley, Crystal S. Stonesifer, David E. Calkin, William Matt Jolly
2016 Evaluation and optimization of fuel treatment effectiveness with an integrated experimental/modeling approach - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Technical Report or White Paper
Nick Skowronski, Albert Simeoni, Kenneth L. Clark, William E. Mell, Rory Hadden
2016 A comparison of level set and marker methods for the simulation of wildland fire front propagation
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Anthony S. Bova, William E. Mell, Chad M. Hoffman
2015 Exploring how alternative mapping approaches influence fireshed assessment and human community exposure to wildfire
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Joe H. Scott, Matthew P. Thompson, Julie W. Gilbertson-Day
2015 The changing strength and nature of fire-climate relationships in the northern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A., 1902-2008
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Philip E. Higuera, John T. Abatzoglou, Jeremy S. Littell, Penelope Morgan
2015 Modeling fuel treatment impacts on fire suppression cost savings: a review
Book or Chapter or Journal Article, Synthesis
Matthew P. Thompson, Nathaniel Anderson
2015 Relationships between fire danger and the daily number and daily growth of active incidents burning in the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Patrick H. Freeborn, Mark A. Cochrane, William Matt Jolly
2015 Warning signals for eruptive events in spreading fires
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Jerome M. Fox, George M. Whitesides
2015 Evaluating crown fire rate of spread predictions from physics-based models
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Chad M. Hoffman, J. Ziegler, Rodman Linn, William E. Mell, Carolyn Hull Sieg, F. Pimont
2015 Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
William Matt Jolly, Mark A. Cochrane, Patrick H. Freeborn, Zachary A. Holden, Timothy J. Brown, G.J. Williamson, David M. J. S. Bowman
2015 Forecasting integrated lightning and fuels ignition potentials in a system with real-time analysis of fire weather prediction accuracy
Technical Report or White Paper
Miriam L. Rorig, Stacy Drury
2015 Developing a post-processor to link the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) and the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS)
Technical Report or White Paper
Morris C. Johnson, Sarah J. Beukema, Stephanie A. Rebain, Paige C. Eagle, Kjell Swedin, Maria Petrova, Susan J. Prichard
2014 Fuel treatment effectiveness in reducing fire intensity and spread rate -- an experimental overview
Conference Proceedings
Eric Mueller, Nick Skowronski, Albert Simeoni, Kenneth L. Clark, Robert L. Kremens, William E. Mell, Michael R. Gallagher, Jan C. Thomas, Alexander I. Filkov, M. El Houssami, John L. Hom, Bret W. Butler
2014 Modeling very large-fire occurrences over the continental United States from weather and climate forcing
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Renaud Barbero, John T. Abatzoglou, E. Ashley Steel, Narasimhan K. Larkin
2014 Understanding stochastic wildfire simulation results
Technical Report or White Paper
Joe H. Scott
2014 A comparison of three approaches for simulating fine-scale surface winds in support of wildland fire management. Part II. An exploratory study of the effect of simulated winds on fire growth simulations
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Jason M. Forthofer, Bret W. Butler, Charles W. McHugh, Mark A. Finney, Larry S. Bradshaw, Richard D. Stratton, Kyle S. Shannon, Natalie S. Wagenbrenner
2014 Representation and evaluation of wildfire propagation simulations
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Jean-Baptiste Filippi, Vivien Mallet, Bahaa Nader
2014 Impacts of mega-fires on large U.S. urban area air quality under changing climate and fuels
Technical Report or White Paper
Yongqiang Liu, Scott L. Goodrick, John A. Stanturf, Hanqin Tian
2014 A comparison of three approaches for simulating fine-scale surface winds in support of wildland fire management: Part I. Model formulation and comparison against measurements
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Jason M. Forthofer, Bret W. Butler, Natalie S. Wagenbrenner
2013 Models for predicting fuel consumption in sagebrush-dominated ecosystems
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Clinton S. Wright
2013 Forest fire management to avoid unintended consequences: a case study of Portugal using system dynamics
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Ross D. Collins, Richard de Neufville, João Claro, Tiago M. Oliveira, Abílio Pereira Pacheco
2013 Wildland fire emissions, carbon, and climate: modeling fuel consumption
Book or Chapter or Journal Article, Synthesis
Roger D. Ottmar
2013 Quantifying the potential impacts of fuel treatments on wildfire suppression costs
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Matthew P. Thompson, Nicole M. Vaillant, Jessica R. Haas, Krista M. Gebert, Keith Stockmann
2013 Modelling conditional burn probability patterns for large wildland fires
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Pamela S. Ziesler, Douglas B. Rideout, Robin Reich
2013 The relationship of large fire occurrence with drought and fire danger indices in the western USA, 1984-2008: the role of temporal scale
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Karen L. Riley, John T. Abatzoglou, Isaac C. Grenfell, Anna E. Klene, Faith A. Heinsch
2013 Wildfire exposure and fuel management on western US national forests
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Alan A. Ager, Michelle A. Day, Charles W. McHugh, Karen C. Short, Julie W. Gilbertson-Day, Mark A. Finney, David E. Calkin
2013 Optimising fuel treatments over time and space
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Woodam Chung, J. Greg Jones, Kurt Krueger, Jody Bramel, Marco A. Contreras
2013 A polygon-based modeling approach to assess exposure of resources and assets to wildfire
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Matthew P. Thompson, Joe H. Scott, Jeffrey D. Kaiden, Julie W. Gilbertson-Day
2013 Surface fire intensity influences simulated crown fire behavior in lodgepole pine forests with recent mountain pine beetle-caused tree mortality
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Chad M. Hoffman, Penelope Morgan, William E. Mell, Russell A. Parsons, Eva K. Strand, Stephen Cook
2013 Combustibility of a mixture of live and dead fuel components
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Domingos Xavier Viegas, J. Soares, Miguel Almeida
2013 Angular variation of fire rate of spread
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Jorge C. S. Andre, Joao C. Goncalves, Gilberto C. Vaz, Domingos Xavier Viegas
2013 Current status and future needs of the BehavePlus Fire Modeling System
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Patricia L. Andrews
2012 Entrainment regimes and flame characteristics of wildland fires
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Ralph M. Nelson, Bret W. Butler, David R. Weise
2012 Effect of suppression strategies on federal wildland fire expenditures
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Krista M. Gebert, Anne E. Black
2012 Modeling tree-level fuel connectivity to evaluate the effectiveness of thinning treatments for reducing crown fire potential
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Marco A. Contreras, Russell A. Parsons, Woodam Chung
2012 Do mountain pine beetle outbreaks change the probability of active crown fire in lodgepole pine forests? Comment 1 & 2, Reply 1
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Christopher J. Moran, Mark A. Cochrane, William Matt Jolly, Russell A. Parsons, J. Morgan Varner, Bret W. Butler, Kevin C. Ryan, Corey L. Gucker, Martin Simard, William H. Romme, Monica G. Turner
2012 Spatial variability in wildfire probability across the western United States
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Marc-Andre Parisien, Susan Snetsinger, Jonathan A. Greenberg, Cara R. Nelson, Tania L. Schoennagel, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Max A. Moritz
2012 Spatial bottom-up controls on fire likelihood vary across western North America
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Sean A. Parks, Marc-Andre Parisien, Carol Miller
2012 Numerical simulation of crown fire hazard immediately after bark beetle-caused mortality in lodgepole pine forests
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Chad M. Hoffman, Penelope Morgan, William E. Mell, Russell A. Parsons, Eva K. Strand, Stephen Cook
2012 On linking the impacts and effects of wildland fires to their behavior
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Martin E. Alexander
2011 A method for ensemble wildland fire simulation
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Mark A. Finney, Isaac C. Grenfell, Charles W. McHugh, Robert C. Seli, D. Trethewey, Richard D. Stratton, Stuart Brittain
2011 A simulation of probabilistic wildfire risk components for the continental United States
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Mark A. Finney, Charles W. McHugh, Isaac C. Grenfell, Karen L. Riley, Karen C. Short
2011 Analyzing wildfire exposure and source-sink relationships on a fire prone forest landscape
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Alan A. Ager, Nicole M. Vaillant, Mark A. Finney, Haiganoush K. Preisler
2011 Linking 3D spatial models of fuels and fire: effects of spatial heterogeneity on fire behavior
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Russell A. Parsons, William E. Mell, Peter McCauley
2011 Simulating fuel treatment effects in dry forests of the western United States: testing the principles of a fire-safe forest
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Morris C. Johnson, Maureen C. Kennedy, David L. Peterson
2010 A comparison of landscape fuel treatment strategies to mitigate wildland fire risk in the urban interface and preserve old forest structure
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Alan A. Ager, Nicole M. Vaillant, Mark A. Finney
2010 Wildfire risk and hazard: procedures for the first approximation
Technical Report or White Paper
David E. Calkin, Alan A. Ager, Julie W. Gilbertson-Day
2010 Assessing crown fire potential in coniferous forests of western North America: a critique of current approaches and recent simulation studies
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Miguel G. Cruz, Martin E. Alexander
2010 Effects of biomass removal treatments on stand-level fire characteristics in major forest types of the Northern Rocky Mountains
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Elizabeth D. Reinhardt, Lisa M. Holsinger, Robert E. Keane
2010 Evaluating the ecological benefits of wildfire by integrating fire and ecosystem simulation models
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Robert E. Keane, Eva C. Karau
2010 Fine fuel heating by radiant flux
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
David Frankman, Brent W. Webb, Bret W. Butler, Donald J. Latham
2009 Seasonal predictions for wildland fire severity
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Shyh-Chin Chen, Haiganoush K. Preisler, Francis M. Fujioka, John W. Benoit, John O. Roads
2009 Wildland surface fire spread modelling, 1990-2007. 1: Physical and quasi-physical models
Book or Chapter or Journal Article, Synthesis
Andrew L. Sullivan
2009 Wildland surface fire spread modelling, 1990-2007. 2: Empirical and quasi-empirical models
Book or Chapter or Journal Article, Synthesis
Andrew L. Sullivan
2009 Wildland surface fire spread modelling, 1990-2007. 3: Simulation and mathematical analogue models
Book or Chapter or Journal Article, Synthesis
Andrew L. Sullivan
2009 Seasonal predictions for wildland fire severity
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Shyh-Chin Chen, Haiganoush K. Preisler, Francis M. Fujioka, John W. Benoit, John O. Roads
2007 Simulation of long-term landscape-level fuel treatment effects on large wildfires
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Mark A. Finney, Robert C. Seli, Charles W. McHugh, Alan A. Ager, Bernhard Bahro, James K. Agee
2007 Effects of alternative treatments on canopy fuel characteristics in five conifer stands
Conference Proceedings, Technical Report or White Paper
Joe H. Scott, Elizabeth D. Reinhardt
2007 Effects of alternative treatments on canopy fuel characteristics in five conifer stands
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Joe H. Scott, Elizabeth D. Reinhardt
2007 Testing the modeled effectiveness of an operational fuel reduction treatment in a small western Montana interface landscape using two spatial scales
Conference Proceedings
Michael G. Harrington, Erin Noonan-Wright, Mitchell Doherty
2007 A physics-based approach to modelling grassland fires
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
William E. Mell, Mary Ann Jenkins, Jim Gould, Phil Cheney
2007 Guide to fuel treatments in dry forests of the Western United States: assessing forest structure and fire hazard
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Morris C. Johnson, David L. Peterson, Crystal L. Raymond
2007 Predicted fire behavior in selected mountain pine beetle-infested lodgepole pine
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Wesley G. Page, Michael J. Jenkins
2006 Evaluation of MM5 model resolution when applied to prediction of National Fire Danger Rating indexes
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Jeanne L. Hoadley, Miriam L. Rorig, Larry S. Bradshaw, Sue A. Ferguson, Kenneth Westrick, Scott L. Goodrick, Paul A. Werth
2006 An Overview of FlamMap Fire Modeling Capabilities
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Mark A. Finney
2006 Comparison of crown fire modeling systems used in three fire management applications
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Joe H. Scott
2006 Windwizard: a new tool for fire management decision support
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Bret W. Butler, Mark A. Finney, Larry S. Bradshaw, Jason M. Forthofer, Charles W. McHugh, Rick Stratton, Daniel M. Jimenez
2006 Interpreting fire behavior - powerpoint
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
2006 Landscape assessment methods - powerpoint
Presentation Slides
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
2005 Forest fuel treatments in western North America: merging silviculture and fire management
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Morris C. Johnson, David L. Peterson
2005 Climatic controls of fire in the western United States: from the atmosphere to ecosystems - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
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Steven W. Hostetler, Patrick J. Bartlein, Allen M. Solomon, J. O. Holman, Richard T. Busing, Sarah L. Shafer
2005 Evaluation of the Experimental Climate Prediction Center's fire danger forecasts with remote automated weather station observations
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Hauss J. Reinbold, John O. Roads, Timothy J. Brown
2005 Predicting cumulative watershed effects of fuel management with improved WEPP technology
Conference Proceedings
William J. Elliot, Joan Q. Wu
2005 Modeling surface winds in complex terrain for wildland fire incident support - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Technical Report or White Paper
Mark A. Finney, Larry S. Bradshaw, Bret W. Butler
2005 Demonstration and integration of systems for fire remote sensing, ground-based fire measurement, and fire modeling - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Technical Report or White Paper
Colin C. Hardy, Philip J. Riggan
2005 Cumulative effects of fuel management on landscape-scale fire behavior and effects - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Technical Report or White Paper
Mark A. Finney
2004 Landscape fire simulation and fuel treatment optimization
Technical Report or White Paper
Mark A. Finney
2004 A comment on models and modelling in fire/fuel management
Technical Report or White Paper
Martin E. Alexander
2003 Assessing canopy fuel stratum characteristics in crown fire prone fuel types of western North America
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Martin E. Alexander, Ronald H. Wakimoto
2003 An initial analysis of relationships between 2- and 10-minute averaged winds at 10, 6, and 1.8 meters: implications for fire behavior and danger applications
Conference Proceedings
Larry S. Bradshaw, Eugene Petrescu, Isaac C. Grenfell
2003 Predicting surface winds in complex terrain for use in fire spread models
Conference Proceedings
Jason M. Forthofer, Bret W. Butler, Kyle S. Shannon, Mark A. Finney, Larry S. Bradshaw, Richard D. Stratton
2003 Reaction times and burning rates for wind tunnel headfires
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Ralph M. Nelson
2003 The spatial context of fire: a new approach for predicting fire occurrence
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Carol Miller
2003 The spatial context of fire: a new approach for predicting fire occurrence
Conference Proceedings, Technical Report or White Paper
Carol Miller
2003 Comparison of 2-D wind fields and simulated wildland fire growth
Conference Proceedings
Karl F. Zeller, Ned Nikolov, John S. Snook, Mark A. Finney, Jason M. Forthofer
2003 Fire whirls, fire tornados, and fire storms: physical and numerical modeling
Conference Proceedings
Robert N. Meroney
2002 Long lead statistical forecasts of area burned in western U.S. wildfires by ecosystem province
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Anthony L. Westerling, Alexander Gershunov, Daniel R. Cayan, Tim P. Barnett
2002 Using FVS and its fire and fuels extension in the context of uncertain climate
Conference Proceedings
Albert R. Stage
2000 The Mann Gulch Fire and the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System
Conference Proceedings
Martin E. Alexander
2000 Stevensville West Central Study
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J. Greg Jones, Jimmie D. Chew, Nan K. Christianson, D. J. Silvieus, Catherine A. Stewart
2000 Sequential use of simulation and optimization in analysis and planning
Conference Proceedings
Hans R. Zuuring, Jimmie D. Chew, J. Greg Jones
2000 Simulating fire patterns in heterogeneous landscapes
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
William W. Hargrove, Robert H. Gardner, Monica G. Turner, William H. Romme, Don G. Despain
2000 An overview of the fire and fuels extension to the forest vegetation simulator
Conference Proceedings
Sarah J. Beukema, Elizabeth D. Reinhardt, Werner A. Kurz, Nicholas L. Crookston
1999 Applying simulation and optimization to plan fuel treatments at landscape scales
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J. Greg Jones, Jimmie D. Chew, Hans R. Zuuring
1999 Applying simulation and optimization to plan fuel treatments at landscape scales
Conference Proceedings, Technical Report or White Paper
J. Greg Jones, Jimmie D. Chew, Hans R. Zuuring
1998 Development of input data layers for the FARSITE fire growth model for the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Complex, USA
Technical Report or White Paper
Robert E. Keane, Janice L. Garner, Kirsten M. Schmidt, Donald G. Long, James P. Menakis, Mark A. Finney
1994 A statistical-topographic model for mapping climatological precipitation over mountainous terrain
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Christopher Daly, Ronald P. Neilson, Donald L. Phillips
1990 The Haines Index and Idaho fire growth
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Paul A. Werth, Richard Ochoa
1985 Predicting duff and woody fuel consumed by prescribed fire in the Northern Rocky Mountains
Technical Report or White Paper
James K. Brown, Michael A. Marsden, Kevin C. Ryan, Elizabeth D. Reinhardt
1984 Modeling behavior of prescribed fires in Yosemite National Park
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Jan W. van Wagtendonk, Stephen J. Botti
1978 Predicting slash depth for fire modeling
Technical Report or White Paper
Frank A. Albini, James K. Brown
1976 Fire danger rating network density
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Rudy M. King, R. William Furman
1972 Field test of a rate-of-fire-spread model in slash fuels
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James K. Brown
1966 Mechanisms of fire spread research progress report no. 2
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Hal E. Anderson