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Flame spread over discrete fuels is a typical phenomenon in fire scenes. Experimental and theoretical research on flame spread over discrete thermally thin fuels separated by air gaps with different inclination angles was conducted in the present…
Author(s): Xiaoliang Zhang, Shibing Kuang, Yanli Zhao, Jun Zhang, Shengfeng Luo
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Interactions between urban and wildfire pollution emissions are active areas of research, with numerous aircraft field campaigns and satellite analyses of wildfire pollution being conducted in recent years. Several studies have found that elevated…
Author(s): Daniel L. Mendoza, Erik T. Crosman, Tabitha M. Benney, Corbin Anderson, Shawn A. Gonzales
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The USDA Forest Service recently launched a Wildfire Crisis Strategy outlining objectives to safeguard communities and other values at risk by substantially increasing the pace and scale of fuel reduction treatment. This analysis quantified layered…
Author(s): George A. Woolsey, Wade T. Tinkham, Michael A. Battaglia, Chad M. Hoffman
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Wildfire spread models are an essential tool for mitigating catastrophic effects associated with wildfires. However, current operational models suffer from significant limitations regarding accuracy and transferability. Recent advances in the…
Author(s): Moritz Rösch, Michael Nolde, Tobias Ullmann, Torsten Riedlinger
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Background: Over the last four decades, wildfires in forests of the continental western United States have significantly increased in both size and severity after more than a century of fire suppression and exclusion. Many of these forests…
Author(s): Malcolm P. North, Sarah M. Bisbing, Don L. Hankins, Paul F. Hessburg, Matthew D. Hurteau, Leda N. Kobziar, Marc D. Meyer, Allison E. Rhea, Scott L. Stephens, Camille Stevens-Rumann
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The number of large, high-severity wildfires has been increasing across the western United States over the last several decades. It is not fully understood how changes in the frequency of large, severe wildfires may impact the resilience of conifer…
Author(s): Casey Menick, Wade T. Tinkham, Chad M. Hoffman, Melanie K. Vanderhoof, Jody Vogeler
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This study investigates the kickback force (FK) experienced by firefighters during fire suppression using hoses of varying diameters and different nozzle sizes. Rigorous ground tests were conducted, where a fire engine was employed to propel water…
Author(s): Dac Nguyen, Richard M. Kesler, Shyuan Cheng, Leonardo P. Chamorro, Samuel Vega, Aaron Fields, Dennis LeGear, Farzaneh Masoud
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As wildfire activity increases and fire-size distributions potentially shift in many forested regions worldwide, anticipating the spatial patterns of burn severity expected with future fire activity is critical for ecological understanding and…
Author(s): Michele S. Buonanduci, Daniel C. Donato, Joshua S. Halofsky, Maureen C. Kennedy, Brian J. Harvey
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Background Anthropogenic climate change is expected to catalyze forest conversion to grass and shrublands due to more extreme fire behavior and hotter and drier post-fire conditions. However, field surveys in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the…
Author(s): Margaret D/ Epstein, Carl A. Seielstad, Christopher J. Moran
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In the sentence beginning ‘The first objective of this study’ in this article under Sect. 3.1. Conditions for self-sustained smoldering, quotation marks were added for the x symbol. It should have been read as ‘At a wind speed of 1.5 m/s, some of…
Author(s): Luca Carmignani, Mohammadhadi Hajilou, J. Cobian-Iniguez, Mark A. Finney, Scott L. Stephens, Michael J. Gollner, A. Carlos Fernandez-Pello
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In early 2020 the US Forest Service (USFS) recognized the need to gather real-time information from its wildland fire management personnel about their challenges and adaptations during the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic. The USFS conducted 194 virtual…
Author(s): David Flores, Rebekah L. Fox, Jody L. Jahn, Craig Conley, Satoris S. Howes, Joel O. Iverson, Steven J. Venette, Emily Haire, Cathelijine Stoof
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The primary objective of prescribed burning (PB) treatment is to promote increased ecosystem resistance to high fire severity and ecosystem adaptive resilience after unplanned wildfires under worsening climates. Yet, empirical evidence involving…
Author(s): José Manuel Fernández-Guisuraga, Paulo M. Fernandes
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In civil construction, one of the primary challenges associated with wood application is its high flammability and low durability during fires. Although chemical treatment with fire-retardant properties exists, they are expensive and of non-…
Author(s): Eraldo Antonio Bonfatti Junior, Jeinna Michelly Rodrigues de Barros, Elaine Cristina Lengowski
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Large forest fires have far-reaching impacts on the environment, human health, infrastructure and the economy. Forest fires become large when all forest types across a landscape are dry enough to burn. Mesic forests are the slowest to dry and can…
Author(s): Jane G. Cawson, Luke Collins, Sean A. Parks, Rachael H. Nolan, Trent D. Penman
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Fire suppression is the primary management response to wildfires in many areas globally. By removing less-extreme wildfires, this approach ensures that remaining wildfires burn under more extreme conditions. Here, we term this the “suppression bias…
Author(s): Mark R. Kreider, Philip E. Higuera, Sean A. Parks, William L. Rice, Nadia White, Andrew J. Larson
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Background The moisture content of litter and woody debris is a key determinant of fire potential and fire behaviour. Obtaining reliable estimates of the moisture content of dead fine fuels (i.e. 1-h and 10-h fuels) is therefore a critical…
Author(s): J. Sharples, P. Jyoteeshkumar Reddy, Víctor Resco de Dios, Rachael H. Nolan, Matthias M. Boer, Ross A. Bradstock
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Recently burned boreal forests have lower aboveground fuel loads, generating a negative feedback to subsequent wildfires. Despite this feedback, short-interval reburns (≤20 years between fires) are possible under extreme weather conditions. Reburns…
Author(s): Ellen Whitman, Quinn E. Barber, Piyush Jain, Sean A. Parks, Luc Guindon, Dan K. Thompson, Marc-Andre Parisien
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Wildfire activity is increasing globally. The resulting smoke plumes can travel hundreds to thousands of kilometers, reflecting or scattering sunlight and depositing particles within ecosystems. Several key physical, chemical, and biological…
Author(s): Mary Jade Farruggia, Janice Brahney, Andrew J. Tanentzap, Jennifer A. Brentrup, Ludmila S. Brighenti, Sudeep Chandra, Alicia Cortés, Rocio L. Fernandez, Janet M. Fischer, Alexander L. Forrest, Yufang Jin, Kenneth Larrieu, Ian M. McCullough, Isabella A. Oleksy, Rachel M. Pilla, James A. Rusak, Facundo Scordo, Adrianne P. Smits, Celia C. Symons, Minmeng Tang, Samuel G. Woodman, Steven Sadro
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Background: Understory flammability is affected by abscised plant tissue. Extensive research has shown how interspecific differences in leaf litter traits affect flammability; however, leaves represent only one component of the litter layer. Cones…
Author(s): John Willis, Tamara F. Milton, Heather D. Alexander
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Fire-adapted dry forests and nearby communities both need to be sustained as climate changes. Wildfires have increased in the ~25.5 million ha of dry forests in the western US, but are wildfires already more severe than historical (preindustrial)…
Author(s): William L. Baker
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