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Wildfire management in Canada: Review, challenges and opportunities
Progress in Disaster Science, 2020 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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Differences in Long Term Exposure to Wildfire Smoke Among People Who Are Incarcerated Compared to People Who Are Not Incarcerated in California, 2015–2020 [PDF]
GeoHealthWildfire smoke exposure is associated with a range of adverse health outcomes. People who are incarcerated may be especially vulnerable to smoke exposure because, compared to non‐incarcerated people, they lack agency to control their exposure.
Kristen N. Cowan +5 more
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Modelling ignition probability for human- and lightning-caused wildfires in Victoria, Australia [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2022 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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Nature Communications, 2021 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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Fire, 2021 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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Analysis of Fire-Induced Circulations during the FireFlux2 Experiment
Fire, 2023 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
Scientific Reports, 2023 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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Communications Earth & Environment, 2021 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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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 +6 more
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Fire, 2022 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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