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Parcel-Level Risk Affects Wildfire Outcomes: Insights from Pre-Fire Rapid Assessment Data for Homes Destroyed in 2020 East Troublesome Fire

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, Christopher M. Barth, Julia B. Goolsby, Schelly K. Olson, Adam C. Gosey, James (Brad) White, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Patricia A. Champ, Jamie Gomez   +8 more
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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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Analysis of methods for assimilating fire perimeters into a coupled fire-atmosphere model

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023
Correctly initializing the fire within coupled fire-atmosphere models is critical for producing accurate forecasts of meteorology near the fire, as well as the fire growth, and plume evolution.
Adam K. Kochanski, Kathleen Clough, Angel Farguell, Derek V. Mallia, Jan Mandel, Kyle Hilburn   +5 more
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Health costs of wildfire smoke to rise under climate change

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2023
The global health burden from wildfire smoke is expected to worsen under climate change, yet we lack quantitative estimates of the economic costs of increased mortality and hospital admissions for cardiovascular and respiratory conditions.
Hamish Clarke, Brett Cirulis, Nicolas Borchers-Arriagada, Ross Bradstock, Owen Price, Trent Penman   +5 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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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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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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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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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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