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Bringing People Together & Sharing Knowledge in the Northern Rockies
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
Modeling and Mapping the Potential for High Severity Fire in the Western U.S.
Oct 10, 2018
Sean A. Parks
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
Research Briefs
Syntheses
Publications/Reports
2018 Quantile regression: an alternative approach to modelling forest area burned by individual fires
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2018 An improved non-equilibrium model for the ignition of living fuel
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2018 Advancing the Science of Wildland Fire Dynamics Using Process-Based Models
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2018 The sensitivity of US wildfire occurrence to pre-season soil moisture conditions across ecosystems
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2018 An Empirical Model for the Effect of Wind on Fire Spread Rate
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2018 The Rothermel surface fire spread model and associated developments: A comprehensive explanation
Technical Report or White Paper
2018 Some Requirements for Simulating Wildland Fire Behavior Using Insight from Coupled Weather—Wildland Fire Models
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2018 Observations and predictability of gap winds in the Salmon River Canyon of Central Idaho, USA
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2018 Conditional Performance Evaluation: Using Wildfire Observations for Systematic Fire Simulator Development
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
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
2018 Optimizing smoke and plume rise modeling approaches at local scales
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
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
2018 Wildfire fuel management: network-based models and optimization of prescribed burning
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2018 Interpolation framework to speed up near-surface wind simulations for data-driven wildfire applications
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2018 Some requirements for simulating wildland fire behavior using insight from coupled weather-wildland fire models
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2018 Random subset feature selection for ecological niche models of wildfire activity in western North America
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
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
2018 A model-based framework to evaluate alternative wildfire suppression strategies
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2017 Spatially explicit measurements of forest structure and fire behavior following restoration treatments in dry forests
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
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
2017 Spatiotemporal dynamics of simulated wildfire, forest management, and forest succession in central Oregon, USA
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2017 Network analysis of wildfire transmission and implications for risk governance
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
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
2017 How to generate and interpret fire characteristics charts for the U.S. fire danger rating system
Technical Report or White Paper
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
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
2017 Modeling support for FASMEE experimental design using WRF-SFIRECHEM - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Technical Report or White Paper
2017 Effects of accelerated wildfire on future fire regimes and implications for the United States federal fire policy
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2017 Simulated fire behaviour in young, postfire lodgepole pine forests
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2017 An improved canopy wind model for predicting wind adjustment factors and wildland fire behavior
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2016 A comparison of level set and marker methods for the simulation of wildland fire front propagation
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2016 High-resolution infrared thermography for capturing wildland fire behaviour: RxCADRE 2012
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2016 Development of the rangeland vegetation simulator: a module for FVS
Technical Report or White Paper
2016 A stochastic mixed integer program to model spatial wildfire behavior and suppression placement decisions with uncertain weather
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
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
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
2016 Assessing the effectiveness of spatially heterogeneous fuels reduction restoration treatments - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Technical Report or White Paper
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
2016 Near-term probabilistic forecast of significant wildfire events for the western United States
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2015 Evaluating crown fire rate of spread predictions from physics-based models
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2015 Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
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
2015 Developing a post-processor to link the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) and the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS)
Technical Report or White Paper
2015 Exploring how alternative mapping approaches influence fireshed assessment and human community exposure to wildfire
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
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
2015 Modeling fuel treatment impacts on fire suppression cost savings: a review
Book or Chapter or Journal Article, Synthesis
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
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
2014 Impacts of mega-fires on large U.S. urban area air quality under changing climate and fuels
Technical Report or White Paper
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
2014 Fuel treatment effectiveness in reducing fire intensity and spread rate -- an experimental overview
Conference Proceedings
2014 Modeling very large-fire occurrences over the continental United States from weather and climate forcing
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2014 Representation and evaluation of wildfire propagation simulations
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2013 Modelling conditional burn probability patterns for large wildland fires
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
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
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
2013 Combustibility of a mixture of live and dead fuel components
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2013 Current status and future needs of the BehavePlus Fire Modeling System
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2013 Quantifying the potential impacts of fuel treatments on wildfire suppression costs
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2013 Wildland fire emissions, carbon, and climate: modeling fuel consumption
Book or Chapter or Journal Article, Synthesis
2013 Models for predicting fuel consumption in sagebrush-dominated ecosystems
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2012 Do mountain pine beetle outbreaks change the probability of active crown fire in lodgepole pine forests? Comment 1 & 2, Reply 1
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2012 Entrainment regimes and flame characteristics of wildland fires
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2012 Modeling tree-level fuel connectivity to evaluate the effectiveness of thinning treatments for reducing crown fire potential
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2012 Effect of suppression strategies on federal wildland fire expenditures
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2012 Spatial variability in wildfire probability across the western United States
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2012 Spatial bottom-up controls on fire likelihood vary across western North America
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2012 Numerical simulation of crown fire hazard immediately after bark beetle-caused mortality in lodgepole pine forests
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
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
2011 Linking 3D spatial models of fuels and fire: effects of spatial heterogeneity on fire behavior
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2011 Analyzing wildfire exposure and source-sink relationships on a fire prone forest landscape
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
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
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
2009 Wildland surface fire spread modelling, 1990-2007. 1: Physical and quasi-physical models
Book or Chapter or Journal Article, Synthesis
2009 Wildland surface fire spread modelling, 1990-2007. 2: Empirical and quasi-empirical models
Book or Chapter or Journal Article, Synthesis
2009 Wildland surface fire spread modelling, 1990-2007. 3: Simulation and mathematical analogue models
Book or Chapter or Journal Article, Synthesis
2009 Seasonal predictions for wildland fire severity
Conference Proceedings, Technical Report or White Paper
2009 Seasonal predictions for wildland fire severity
Conference Proceedings, Technical Report or White Paper
2007 Effects of alternative treatments on canopy fuel characteristics in five conifer stands
Conference Proceedings, Technical Report or White Paper
2007 Effects of alternative treatments on canopy fuel characteristics in five conifer stands
Conference Proceedings, Technical Report or White Paper
2007 Simulation of long-term landscape-level fuel treatment effects on large wildfires
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2007 Predicted fire behavior in selected mountain pine beetle-infested lodgepole pine
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2007 Testing the modeled effectiveness of an operational fuel reduction treatment in a small western Montana interface landscape using two spatial scales
Conference Proceedings
2007 Guide to fuel treatments in dry forests of the Western United States: assessing forest structure and fire hazard
Technical Report or White Paper
2006 Evaluation of MM5 model resolution when applied to prediction of National Fire Danger Rating indexes
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2006 Comparison of crown fire modeling systems used in three fire management applications
Technical Report or White Paper
2005 Climatic controls of fire in the western United States: from the atmosphere to ecosystems - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Technical Report or White Paper
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
2005 Forest fuel treatments in western North America: merging silviculture and fire management
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
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
2005 Predicting cumulative watershed effects of fuel management with improved WEPP technology
Conference Proceedings
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
2005 Evaluation of the Experimental Climate Prediction Center's fire danger forecasts with remote automated weather station observations
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2003 Assessing canopy fuel stratum characteristics in crown fire prone fuel types of western North America
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
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
2003 Predicting surface winds in complex terrain for use in fire spread models
Conference Proceedings
2003 Fire whirls, fire tornados, and fire storms: physical and numerical modeling
Conference Proceedings
2002 Long lead statistical forecasts of area burned in western U.S. wildfires by ecosystem province
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2002 Using FVS and its fire and fuels extension in the context of uncertain climate
Conference Proceedings
2000 An overview of the fire and fuels extension to the forest vegetation simulator
Conference Proceedings
1999 Applying simulation and optimization to plan fuel treatments at landscape scales
Conference Proceedings, Technical Report or White Paper
1999 Applying simulation and optimization to plan fuel treatments at landscape scales
Conference Proceedings, Technical Report or White Paper
1998 Development of input data layers for the FARSITE fire growth model for the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Complex, USA
Technical Report or White Paper
1994 A statistical-topographic model for mapping climatological precipitation over mountainous terrain
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
1985 Predicting duff and woody fuel consumed by prescribed fire in the Northern Rocky Mountains
Technical Report or White Paper
1984 Modeling behavior of prescribed fires in Yosemite National Park
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
