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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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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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Mechanisms of an Eruptive Forest Fire in Subtropical Hilly Terrain: A Case Study from the 2022 Xintian Fire, Hunan Province, China

Fire
The increasing frequency of extreme wildfire behavior globally, particularly under the influence of anthropogenic climate change, poses unprecedented challenges to traditional fire management paradigms.
Di Wang, Maowei Bai, Siquan Yang
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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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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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Quantifying Global Wildfire Regimes and Disparities in Evacuation Efficacy in the Anthropocene

Fire
Against the backdrop of intensifying global climate change and human activities, the increasing frequency and evolution of major wildfire events pose severe challenges to global disaster prevention and mitigation systems.
Jiaqi Han, Maowei Bai
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Mapping of Post-Wildfire Burned Area Using a Hybrid Algorithm and Satellite Data: The Case of the Camp Fire Wildfire in California, USA

Remote Sensing, 2020
On November 8, 2018, a devastating wildfire, known as the Camp Fire wildfire, was reported in Butte County, California, USA. Approximately 88 fatalities ensued, and 18,804 structures were damaged by the wildfire.
Mutiara Syifa, Mahdi Panahi, Chang-Wook Lee   +2 more
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Influence of landscape moisture sources and topography on rock weathering patterns associated with wildfire [PDF]

, 2022
From 9 March 2015, a wildfire burned an area of 25.7 km2, or approximately half of the Jonkershoek catchment (Western Cape, South Africa), over the course of 3 days.
Grenfell, Michael, Mol, Lisa, Lisa Mol, Michael Grenfell   +3 more
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Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina, Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The link between perceived and actual wildfire danger: An economic and spatial analysis study in Colorado (USA) [PDF]

, 2007
Over the last 20 years, costs for wildfire initial attack in the U.S. have increased significantly. The increased cost relates to wildfire suppression practices as well as the growing number of wildland urban interface (WUI) homes.
Kaval, Pamela
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