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Development and Application of a Hot-Dry-Windy Index (HDW) Climatology
Atmosphere, 2018 In this paper, we describe and analyze a climatology of the Hot-Dry-Windy Index (HDW), with the goal of providing fire-weather forecasters with information about the daily and seasonal variability of the index.
Jessica M. McDonald +2 more
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Global increase in wildfire potential from compound fire weather and drought
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2022 Wildfire can cause significant adverse impacts to society and the environment. Weather and climate play an important role in modulating wildfire activity.
Doug Richardson +7 more
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Recent Active Fires in Indonesia’s Southern Papua Province Caused by El Niño Conditions
Remote Sensing, 2023 This study was conducted to identify the fire weather conditions needed to assess future peatland fires under climate change. Recent peatland fires in Indonesia have resulted in globally significant environmental impacts.
Nina Yulianti, Hiroshi Hayasaka
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Conceptual Framework of an Effective Decision Support System in Forest Fire Management
Doğal Afetler ve Çevre Dergisi, 2020 Forest fire management organizations require accurate, timely and readily available information to be successful in forest fire suppression. A sound decision support system is necessary to acquire and make this information available to fire management ...
Kadir Alperen Coşkuner +1 more
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Estimating Fire Weather Indices via Semantic Reasoning over Wireless Sensor Network Data Streams
, 2014 Wildfires are frequent, devastating events in Australia that regularly cause significant loss of life and widespread property damage. Fire weather indices are a widely-adopted method for measuring fire danger and they play a significant role in issuing ...
Bruenig, Michael +2 more
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Fire, 2020 Weather forecasts are needed in fire management to support risk-based decision-making that considers both the probability of an outcome and its potential impact.
Den Boychuk +9 more
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Do climate teleconnections modulate wildfire-prone conditions over the Iberian Peninsula?
Environmental Research Letters, 2021 Climate teleconnections (CT) synchronize and influence weather features such as temperature, precipitation and, subsequently, drought and fuel moisture in many regions across the globe.
Marcos Rodrigues +4 more
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A Fire Regime Zoning System for China
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2021 Understanding fire regimes is central to fire management. In our study, we analyzed the fire weather and forest fire regime of China using fire data from satellite remote sensing and statistics from 2000 to 2020.
Xuezheng Zong, Xiaorui Tian, Jialei Liu
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Coupled atmosphere-wildland fire modeling with WRF-Fire
, 2011 We describe the physical model, numerical algorithms, and software structure of WRF-Fire. WRF-Fire consists of a fire-spread model, implemented by the level-set method, coupled with the Weather Research and Forecasting model. In every time step, the fire
Beezley, Jonathan D. +2 more
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The Monument Project (Si Monumentum Reqiuis Circumspice) Leonardo article [PDF]
, 2009 This paper describes the concepts, ideas, background and operations of The Monument Project (Si Monumentum Requiris Circumspice), a digital video installation that produces a continuous stream of weather-responsive panoramic images from the top of the ...
Cariani Peter +4 more
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