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Boots on the Ground and Eyes in the Sky: A Perspective on Estimating Fire Danger from Soil Moisture Content

open access: yesFire, 2021
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.
Sonisa Sharma, K. Dhakal
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Fire danger rating over Mediterranean Europe based on fire radiative power derived from Meteosat [PDF]

open access: yesNatural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2018
We present a procedure that allows the operational generation of daily forecasts of fire danger over Mediterranean Europe. The procedure combines historical information about radiative energy released by fire events with daily meteorological forecasts,
M. M. Pinto   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Forest Fires in Europe, Middle East and North Africa 2011 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This is the 12th “Forest Fires in Europe” report published by the European Commission. The area covered by the report has been enlarged to include also Middle East and North Africa countries, thus also the title of the report has been changed accordingly.
BOCA Roberto   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Forest fire danger extremes in Europe under climate change: variability and uncertainty [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Forests cover over a third of the total land area of Europe. In recent years, large forest fires have repeatedly affected Europe, in particular the Mediterranean countries.
ARTES VIVANCOS TOMAS   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Portraits de femmes au Biafra: Étude comparée de Chinua Achebe et Leslie Ofoegbu [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This study explores the impact of the Nigerian Civil War on the daily lives and interpersonal relationships of Biafrans as they are depicted in Chinua Achebe’s Femmes en guerre et autres nouvelles and Leslie Ofoegbu’s Blow the Fire.
Ugochukwu, Francoise
core   +1 more source

Introduction to the Australian Fire Danger Rating System†

open access: yesInternational journal of wildland fire
Background Fire danger rating systems are used daily across Australia to support fire management operations and communications to the general public regarding potential fire danger.
J. Hollis   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Information-algorithmic basis of a program complex for forest fire danger estimation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Present work is devoted to the description of information and algorithmic support for creation of a program complex for an assessment of forest fire danger.
Baranovskiy, Nikolay Viktorovich   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Empirical Research on Climate Warming Risks for Forest Fires: A Case Study of Grade I Forest Fire Danger Zone, Sichuan Province, China

open access: yesSustainability, 2021
The Sichuan province is a key area for forest and grassland fire prevention in China. Forest resources contribute significantly not only to the biological gene pool in the mid latitudes but also in reducing the concentration of greenhouse gases and ...
San Wang, Hongli Li, Shukui Niu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Climate change impacts on regional fire weather in heterogeneous landscapes of central Europe [PDF]

open access: yesNatural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Wildfires have reached an unprecedented scale in the Northern Hemisphere. The summers of 2022 and 2023 demonstrated the destructive power of wildfires, especially in North America and southern Europe.
J. Miller   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Future climate change impact on wildfire danger over the Mediterranean: the case of Greece

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2022
Recent studies have shown that temperature and precipitation in the Mediterranean are expected to change, contributing to longer and more intense summer droughts that even extend out of season.
Anastasios Rovithakis   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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