Global warming is shifting the relationships between fire weather and realized fire-induced CO2 emissions in Europe [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Fire activity has significantly changed in Europe over the last decades (1980–2020s), with the emergence of summers attaining unprecedented fire prone weather conditions.
Jofre Carnicer +8 more
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Development of a Global Fire Weather Database [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2015 The Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System is the mostly widely used fire danger rating system in the world. We have developed a global database of daily FWI System calculations, beginning in 1980, called the Global Fire WEather Database (GFWED)
R. D. Field +12 more
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Extreme fire weather in Chile driven by climate change and El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) [PDF]
Scientific ReportsA string of fierce fires broke out in Chile in the austral summer 2023, just six years after the record-breaking 2017 fire season. Favored by extreme weather conditions, fire activity has dramatically risen in recent years in this Andean country. A total
Raúl R. Cordero +7 more
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Fire Weather Assessment of Future Changes in Fire Weather Conditions in the Attica Region
Environmental Sciences Proceedings, 2023 Under the framework of the European project “FirEUrisk”, the present work aimed to spatially assess the climate change signal of fire weather danger in the Attica region at a high resolution of 5 km.
Nadia Politi +3 more
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Cold Smoke: smoke-induced density currents cause unexpected smoke transport near large wildfires [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2015 The first observations of smoke-induced density currents originating from large wildfires are presented. Using a novel mobile Doppler lidar and additional in situ measurements, we document a deep (~ 2 km) smoke-filled density current that propagates more
N. P. Lareau, C. B. Clements
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Environmental controls on pyrocumulus and pyrocumulonimbus initiation and development [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2016 In this paper we present the first direct observational evidence that the condensation level in pyrocumulus and pyrocumulonimbus clouds can be significantly higher than the ambient lifted condensation level. In addition, we show that the environmental
N. P. Lareau, C. B. Clements
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The Predictability of the Synoptic-Scale Fire Weather Conditions during the 2018 Mati Wildfire
Environmental Sciences Proceedings, 2023 Forecasting and characterizing fire weather conditions over a region days in advance is of great importance for developing early warning systems and supporting effective wildfire management.
Georgios Papavasileiou +1 more
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Fire, 2023 Weather conditions at the time of wildfire front arrival strongly influence fire behavior and effects, yet few methods exist for estimating weather conditions more spatio-temporally resolved than coarse-grain (e.g., 4 km) daily averages.
Angela M. Klock +2 more
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Evolution of Plume Core Structures and Turbulence during a Wildland Fire Experiment
Atmosphere, 2020 Micrometeorological observations were made during a prescribed fire experiment conducted in a region of complex terrain with grass fuels and weak ambient winds of 3 m s−1.
Maritza Arreola Amaya, Craig B. Clements
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Meteorological Profiling in the Fire Environment Using UAS
Fire, 2020 With the increase in commercially available small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), new observations in extreme environments are becoming more obtainable. One such application is the fire environment, wherein measuring both fire and atmospheric properties
Matthew J. Brewer, Craig B. Clements
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