Wildland Fires
Modeling acute respiratory illness during the 2007 San Diego wildland fires using a coupled emissions-transport system and generalized additive modeling
... by wildland fire that is a valuable re- source where ...from wildland fires are also not in place, in part due to a lack of methodology for rigorously and sys- tematically relating the ...a ...
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Responses in Bird Communities to Wildland Fires in Southern California
... We qualitatively and quantitatively assessed the vegetation within the 100 m radius plot around each station following methods similar to those in Ralph et al. (1993), Cooper (1999, 2002), and the Point Reyes Bird ...
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Effects of Multiple Wildland Fires on Ponderosa Pine Stand Structure in Two Southwestern Wilderness Areas, USA
... This study retrospectively evaluates ilie effects of early (mid-century) fires on resulting stand structure and growth patterns in a southwestern ponderosa pine forest Tree[r] ...
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A High Resolution Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Forecasting System to Minimize the Impacts of Wildland Fires: Applications to the Chimney Tops II Wildland Event
... SPOT1 First additional simulation SPOT2 Second additional simulation HRRR High Resolution Rapid Represh 224. References 225[r] ...
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Fire Regime Attributes of Wildland Fires in Yosemite National Park, USA
... We used data from a fi re atlas maintained by the park, fi re weather records, and satellite imagery to determine fi re regime attributes. The fi re atlas contains the fi re name, fi nal area burned, fi re management ...
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Fire Frequency, Area Burned, and Severity: A Quantitative Approach to Defining a Normal Fire Year
... of fires. Using the Landsat data archive, we examined all 148 wildland fires (prescribed fires and wildfires) >40 ha from 1984 through 2009 for the portion of the Sierra Nevada centered on ...
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Forest Fire Risk Mapping by Kernel Density Estimation
... evaluating wildland fires, well prepared forest fire risk maps are regarded as one of the most valuable tools for forest managers, and during the production stage of these maps, as- sociation between ...
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Conceptual design and specification of a microsatellite forest fire detection system
... ozone. Fires also affect the distribution and abundance of plant species, and hence ecological systems and land surface ...forest fires affect nearby national and state parks where thick smoke clouds can ...
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Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence in the conterminous United States and Alaska, 2010
... out wildland fires on non-forested pixels using a forest cover layer derived from MODIS imagery by the Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (USDA Forest Service ...
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Chapter 3: Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence in the conterminous United States and Alaska, 2009
... out wildland fires on non-forested pixels using a forest cover layer derived from MODIS imagery by the Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (USDA Forest Service ...
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Field Testing Wildland Fire Shelters.
... The objective of this experiment was to compare new fire shelter options with the existing 2002 model and to determine which option worked best in the field. The tests were conducted throughout the United States and ...
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Advancing Investigation and Physical Modeling of First-Order Fire Effects on Soils
... intense wildland fires or slash-pile burns can alter the soil irreversibly, resulting in many significant long-term biological, chemical, physical, and hydrological ...
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Aspects of Transformer Fires in Brazil
... oil fires, their limited capacity generally make them a second choice to ...liquid fires, it may act as conductor of electricity, and should therefore not be used on or near energized ...
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Mechanisms for formation of pollutants in fires
... Heterogeneous generation of PCDD/Fs involves catalytic-assisted coupling of precursors and the so-called de novo synthesis [23]. It is well-documented that, certain metallic compounds such as copper oxides greatly ...
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Landscape susceptibility to large fires
... To overcome the above model limitations and shortcomings, this study selects models that represent the biophysical processes of landscape dryness and potential fire spread as closely as possible. For instance, landscape ...
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OPERATION LEYTE – OPERATIONAL FIRES
... Th e American forces achieved great success with eff ective planning of air strikes (operational fi res), even before the landing itself, which occurred on October 17, 1944, by isolati[r] ...
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Forest Fires in Northern Canada
... forest fires (still of limited extent) burning in totally unin- habited regions and where it was certain that no travellers could have passed for a long time before the fires ...
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The Relation of Forests and Forest Fires
... past fires, written in the for- est now on the ground, are often decipherable for a hundred years back, and in many cases for more than twice that length of ...and fires as nothing else can, and are conse- ...
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Wildland Fire Location Management System (WFLMS)
... One such use case for these beacons is in wildland firefighting, where emergency responders typically work in very remote areas. With few roads or landmarks in the vicinity, it can be difficult to place crews in ...
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Ignition Patterns Influence Fire Severity and Plant Communities in Pacific Northwest, USA, Prairies
... backing fires: head fires spread rap- idly among the tops of the grasses, spending less time on the surface, quickly influencing large acreages; backing fires have longer resi- dence times, allowing ...
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