The Southwest Fire Science Consortium is partnering with FRAMES to help fire managers access important fire science information related to the Southwest's top ten fire management issues.
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Rebennack, Cannon, Kaffine, Santi
Debris flows are often one of the most hazardous consequences of wildfires in the urban/wildland interface. Damages include destroyed houses and buildings, blocked and washed out roads, loss of land access, degradation of habitat and water quality,…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Brooks
It is generally thought that Mojave Desert plant communities are poorly adapted for recovery following fire, due to high mortality rates of annual plant seedbanks and low survival rates of perennial plants. However, there is relatively little data…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
González-Cabán
In the spring of 2008, the Third International Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning, and Policy: A World View was held in Carolina, Puerto Rico to address the issues related to the economics, policy and planning of wildland fire management problems…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Alexander, Cruz, Peterson, Vaillant
The focus of the proposed project will be on synthesizing the available information on crown fire behavior related to conifer forests (e.g., the onset of crowning, type of crown fire and the associated spread rate and fireline intensity, convection…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Swetnam, Brown, Brown, Falk, Sutherland
A recent surge of scientific publications and interest in fire climatology derives in part from two new paradigms in climatology: (1) the discovery and understanding of broad-scale ocean-atmosphere oscillations (e.g., El Niño Southern-Oscillation)…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Larkin, Raffuse, Strand, Wheeler
Fire emissions and smoke impacts from wildland fire are a growing concern due to increasing fire season severity, dwindling tolerance of smoke by the public, tightening air quality regulations, and their role in climate change issues. Unfortunately…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Butler
Previous funding from the JFSP has been used to test the utility of commercial engineering software for simulating surface wind flows in support of fire management decisions. Efforts over the last three years have demonstrated that this technology…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Knapp
This synthesis project on season of prescribed burning is to summarize results from studies to date in order to provide managers a resource for predicting fire effects and understanding what variables drive these fire effects in different areas of…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Renschler
This proposal is in response to Task 1: Science Application Partnerships, as described in the Joint Fire Science Program Announcement for Proposals 2004-4. The current GeoWEPP spatial erosion modeling tool is showing great promise for applications…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Hoadley, Bradshaw, Ferguson, Goodrick, Werth
Fine-scale weather data are becoming increasing available for fire weather and fire danger forecasting to support tactical fire preparedness and prescribed fire planning. Unfortunately, appropriate techniques to implement the National Fire Danger…
Year: 2005
Type: Project