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Climate change in western US deserts: potential for increased wildfire and invasive annual grasses
Abatzoglou, Kolden
Anthropogenic climate change is hypothesized to modify the spread of invasive annual grasses across the deserts of the western United States. The influence of climate change on future invasions depends on both climate suitability that defines a…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

Constraints on global fire activity vary across a resource gradient
Krawchuk, Moritz
We provide an empirical, global test of the varying constraints hypothesis, which predicts systematic heterogeneity in the relative importance of biomass resources to burn and atmospheric conditions suitable to burning (weather/climate) across a…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

A method for ensemble wildland fire simulation
Finney, Grenfell, McHugh, Seli, Trethewey, Stratton, Brittain
An ensemble simulation system that accounts for uncertainty in long-range weather conditions and two-dimensional wildland fire spread is described. Fuel moisture is expressed based on the energy release component, a US fire danger rating index, and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

Modeling topographic influences on fuel moisture and fire danger in complex terrain to improve wildland fire management decision support
Holden, Jolly
Fire danger rating systems commonly ignore fine scale, topographically-induced weather variations. These variations will likely create heterogeneous, landscape-scale fire danger conditions that have never been examined in detail. We modeled the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

Managing and adapting to changing fire regimes in a warmer climate
Peterson, Halofsky, Johnson
Planning and management for the expected effects of climate change on natural resources are just now beginning in the western United States (U.S.), where the majority of public lands are located. Federal and state agencies have been slow to address…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

Federal funding for wildfire control and management
Gorte
The Forest Service (FS) and the Department of the Interior (DOI) are responsible for protecting most federal lands from wildfires. Wildfire appropriations nearly doubled in FY2001, following a severe fire season in the summer of 2000, and have…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

'Pyrogeography' Across Western North America: How Climate Has Affected Fire Regimes and Fire History Across the West, and Where We May Be Going the Future
Brown
Peter Brown, Director of Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research, will present a webinar on September 27, 1 PM MDT. A recent surge of scientific knowledge and interest in fire climatology derives from two factors: increasing understanding of broad-scale…
Year: 2011
Type: Media