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What Can Charcoal Reflectance Tell Us About Energy Release in Wildfires and the Properties of Pyrogenic Carbon?

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2018
Here, we explore how charcoal formation under different heating regimes and circumstances leads to chars of different physical properties. In order to do this, we have undertaken (1) carefully controlled laboratory experiments that replicate the ...
Claire M. Belcher, Stacey L. New, Cristina Santín, Stefan H. Doerr, Rebecca A. Dewhirst, Mark J. Grosvenor, Victoria A. Hudspith   +6 more
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Understanding the critical elements of the pyrocumulonimbus storm sparked by high-intensity wildland fire

Communications Earth & Environment, 2022
Instances of high-intensity wildfires which generate a fire-cloud chimney reaching all the way to the stratosphere have risen since 2013, signaling a need for closer monitoring and analysis, suggests a synthesis of confirmed occurrences.
Michael Fromm, René Servranckx, Brian J. Stocks, David A. Peterson   +3 more
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Webcharts – A Web-based Charting Library for Custom Interactive Data Visualization

Journal of Open Research Software, 2016
Webcharts is a JavaScript library built on top of D3.js that creates reusable, flexible, interactive charts that are highly customizable. Webcharts provides a method for creating commonly-used charts, including bar charts, scatterplots, and timelines ...
Nathan Bryant, Jeremy Wildfire
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A recent review of fire behavior and fire effects on native vegetation in Central Chile

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Central Chile experienced a very extended and devastating fire season during 2016–17. After 3 years, here we present the results of an analysis of behavior of the wildfires occurred in that season.
Miguel Castillo S, Álvaro Plaza V, Roberto Garfias S   +2 more
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ARIMA-based forecasting of the effects of wildfire on the increasing tree cover trend and recurrence interval of woody encroachment in grazing land

Resources, Environment and Sustainability, 2022
Invasive tree removal from grazing lands using costly brush management practices is widely employed. However, wildfire-like natural events can prevent the increasing trend of woody tree encroachment in grazing lands at no cost, instead of cost-oriented ...
Mazbahul Ahamad
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Pine Species That Support Crown Fire Regimes Have Lower Leaf-Level Terpene Contents Than Those Native to Surface Fire Regimes

Fire, 2020
Fire is increasingly being recognised as an important evolutionary driver in fire-prone environments. Biochemical traits such as terpene (volatile isoprenoid) concentration are assumed to influence plant flammability but have often been overlooked as ...
Rebecca A Dewhirst, Nicholas Smirnoff, Claire M Belcher   +2 more
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Facing the Wildfire Spread Risk Challenge: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?

Fire, 2023
Wildfire is a sudden and highly destructive natural disaster that poses significant challenges in terms of response and rescue efforts. Influenced by factors such as climate, combustible materials, and ignition sources, wildfires have been increasingly ...
Jingjing Sun, Wenwen Qi, Yuandong Huang, Chong Xu, Wentao Yang   +4 more
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Multiple-Scale Relationships between Vegetation, the Wildland–Urban Interface, and Structure Loss to Wildfire in California

Fire, 2021
Recent increases in destructive wildfires are driving a need for empirical research documenting factors that contribute to structure loss. Existing studies show that fire risk is complex and varies geographically, and the role of vegetation has been ...
Alexandra D. Syphard, Heather Rustigian-Romsos, Jon E. Keeley   +2 more
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Burning Trash for Science: The Potential Use of Discarded Waste to Monitor Energy Fluxes Delivered to Ecosystem Components by Wildfires

Fire
Assessing the energy flux delivered to ecosystem components by wildfires is hard because of technical and safety problems in performing measurements during such events.
Ania Losiak, Amber Avery, Andy Elliott, Sarah J. Baker, Claire M. Belcher   +4 more
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Recent Crown Thinning in a Boreal Black Spruce Forest Does Not Reduce Spread Rate nor Total Fuel Consumption: Results from an Experimental Crown Fire in Alberta, Canada

Fire, 2020
A 3.6 ha experimental fire was conducted in a black spruce peatland forest that had undergone thinning the year prior. After 50 m of spread in a natural stand at 35–60 m min−1, the crown fire (43,000 kW m−1 intensity using Byram’s method) encountered the
Dan K. Thompson, Dave Schroeder, Sophie L. Wilkinson, Quinn Barber, Greg Baxter, Hilary Cameron, Rex Hsieh, Ginny Marshall, Brett Moore, Razim Refai, Chris Rodell, Tom Schiks, Gregory J. Verkaik, Jessica Zerb   +13 more
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