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Aperture judgement in fire-appliance drivers [PDF]
Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 2019 Low-speed collisions are a common occurrence for UK Fire and Rescue Services, with frequent bumps and scrapes adding up to create a significant drain on emergency service budgets, and damaging public faith in the service. We hypothesised that the decision to drive through a gap, or aperture, created by other vehicles and/or road furniture, may be ...
Kroll, V, Crundall, D
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Environmental Research Letters, 2020 Wildfire danger is often ascribed to increased temperature, decreased humidity, drier fuels, or higher wind speed. However, the concurrence of drivers—defined as climate, meteorological and biophysical factors that enable fire growth—is rarely tested for
Mohammad Sadegh Khorshidi +5 more
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Fire Dynamics of the Bolivian Amazon
Land, 2022 This study identifies the spatial and temporal trends, as well as the drivers, of fire dynamics in the Bolivian Amazon basin. Bolivia ranks in the top ten countries in terms of total annual burnt, with fires affecting an estimated 2.3 million hectares of
Minerva Singh +2 more
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Focus on changing fire regimes: interactions with climate, ecosystems, and society
Environmental Research Letters, 2020 Fire is a complex Earth system phenomenon that fundamentally affects vegetation distributions, biogeochemical cycling, climate, and human society across most of Earth’s land surface.
Brendan M Rogers +4 more
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Devegetation is a widespread driver of fire in the Brazilian Cerrado [PDF]
Journal of Environmental ManagementThe Cerrado is the largest tropical savanna in the world, featuring a wide range of vegetation types with different sensitivity to fire. The structure, functioning and rich biodiversity of the non-forest formations is intimately associated with the presence of fire, which historically has acted both as a natural disturbance and as a tool used by ...
Spadoni, Gian +9 more
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Earth's Future, 2022 Fire regimes are influenced by both exogenous drivers (e.g., increases in atmospheric CO2 and climate change) and endogenous drivers (e.g., vegetation and soil/litter moisture), which constrain fuel loads and fuel aridity.
Jianning Ren +7 more
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Ecological Processes, 2020 Background Wildfires play a key role in shaping Mediterranean landscapes and ecosystems and in impacting species dynamics. Numerous studies have investigated the wildfire occurrences and the influence of their drivers in many countries of the ...
Marina D’Este +8 more
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The Drivers of Effectiveness of Prescribed Fire Treatment [PDF]
Forest Science, 2012 Prescribed burning for fuel reduction is a major strategy for reducing the risk from unplanned fire. Although there are theoretical studies suggesting that prescribed fire has a strong negative influence on the subsequent area of unplanned fire (so-called leverage), many empirical studies find a more modest influence.
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Improving prediction and assessment of global fires using multilayer neural networks
Scientific Reports, 2021 Fires determine vegetation patterns, impact human societies, and are a part of complex feedbacks into the global climate system. Empirical and process-based models differ in their scale and mechanistic assumptions, giving divergent predictions of fire ...
Jaideep Joshi, Raman Sukumar
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Modelling the drivers of natural fire activity: the bias created by cropland fires [PDF]
International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2017 Wildland and cropland fires, which differ considerably in fire regime characteristics, have often been evaluated jointly to estimate regional or global fire regimes using satellite-based fire activity data. We hypothesised that excluding cropland fires will change the output of the models regarding the drivers of natural fire activity.
Bekar, Ismail, Tavsanoglu, Cagatay
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