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Wildfire management in Canada: Review, challenges and opportunities
Wildfire management agencies in Canada are at a tipping point. Presuppression and suppression costs are increasing but program budgets are not. Climate change impacts and increasing interface values-at-risk are challenging suppression effectiveness and ...
Michael Flannigan, Brian J Stocks
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Modelling ignition probability for human- and lightning-caused wildfires in Victoria, Australia [PDF]
Wildfires pose a significant risk to people and property, which is expected to grow with urban expansion into fire-prone landscapes and climate change causing increases in fire extent, severity and frequency.
A. Dorph +4 more
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Wildfires continue to destroy houses, but an understanding of the complex mix of risk factors remains elusive. These factors comprise six themes: preparedness actions (including defensible space), response actions (including defence), house construction,
Owen F. Price +3 more
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Global oxygen regulation over Earth history has largely depended on variations in organic carbon burial, which includes the suppression of land vegetation due to fires. Here, the authors show that major evolutionary changes in plant ecosystems could have
Claire M. Belcher +5 more
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Analysis of Fire-Induced Circulations during the FireFlux2 Experiment
Despite recent advances in both coupled fire modeling and measurement techniques to sample the fire environment, the fire–atmosphere coupling mechanisms that lead to fast propagating wildfires remain poorly understood.
Jeremy T. Benik +4 more
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Accuracy of tropical peat and non-peat fire forecasts enhanced by simulating hydrology
Soil moisture deficits and water table dynamics are major biophysical controls on peat and non-peat fires in Indonesia. Development of modern fire forecasting models in Indonesia is hampered by the lack of scalable hydrologic datasets or scalable ...
Symon Mezbahuddin +6 more
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Wildfire Hazard and Risk Assessment [PDF]
Wildfire risk can be perceived as the combination of wildfire hazards (often described by likelihood and intensity) with the susceptibility of people, property, or other valued resources to that hazard.
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Increased fire activity in the Early Jurassic is related to changes in the hydrological cycle driven by enhanced seasonality due to orbital forcing, according to a mid-latitude sedimentary charcoal record spanning 350,000 years.
Teuntje P. Hollaar +6 more
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Parcel-level risk (PLR) describes how wildfire risk varies from home to home based on characteristics that relate to likely fire behavior, the susceptibility of homes to fire, and the ability of firefighters to safely access properties. Here, we describe
James R. Meldrum +8 more
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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 +6 more
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