GC080
The Changing Face of Wildfires and Effects on Human Health
Session ID#: 79397
Session Description:
Wildfire behavior is changing as climate extremes combine with decades of fire suppression and forest management activities to alter fuel loads. In addition, urban development and rapid sub-urban sprawl have complicated the wildland-urban interface, bringing people and fire together in ways that risk property, infrastructure, and health. In this session, we bring together experts in fire behavior, fire modeling, atmospheric chemistry, and human health to explore how wildfires in natural and managed systems are changing in response to climate extremes. In particular, this session invites abstracts on 1) fire regime variability and climate-related drivers, 2) fire behavior and the suitability of existing fire spread models to represent changing conditions, 3) trace-gas emissions and their atmospheric chemistry and transport, and 4) public health impacts via direct and indirect fire and emission processes.
Co-Organized:
Index Terms:
0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
0315 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Primary Convener: Hannah Liddy, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States
Conveners: Benjamin Poulter, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robert D Field, Columbia University of New York, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Palisades, NY, United States and Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison: Hannah Liddy, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States
Building a global forecast system for fire carbon emissions: Toward a framework that integrates remote ocean and local climate information in a time series model (Invited) (489662)
Yang Chen1, James Tremper Randerson1, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou1,2, Padhraic Smyth3, Casey A. Graff3, Shane R. Coffield1, Douglas C Morton4, Niels Andela4, Guido van der Werf5, Louis Giglio6 and Lesley E Ott4, (1)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Computer Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (6)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
Wildfire Trends over 30+ years and its relation to climate indices in the Western United States (513553)
John Salguero, California State University Los Angeles, Department of Geosciences & Environment, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Jingjing Li, California State University Los Angeles, Department of Geosciences and Environment, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Alireza Farahmand, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and John T Reager II, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Biomass burning: emissions, chemistry and transport (Invited) (536643)
Christine Wiedinmyer1, Elena McDonald-Buller2, Yosuke Kimura2, Annmarie G Carlton3, Kelley C Barsanti4, Amber Jeanine Soja5, Jessica L McCarty6, Qingqing Xu7 and Anthony Leroy Westerling7, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States, (5)National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, United States, (6)Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States, (7)University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States
Machine learning to predict final fire size at the time of ignition (560382)
Shane R. Coffield1, Casey A. Graff2, Yang Chen3, Padhraic Smyth2, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou4 and James T. Randerson3, (1)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Computer Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States
Modeling wildfire dynamics using FLAM coupled with deep learning methods (598104)
Andrey Krasovskii1, Xikun Hu2, Ping Yowargana3, Dmitry Shchepashchenko4 and Florian Kraxner4, (1)International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Lower Austria, Austria, (2)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (3)IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, (4)IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
In the line of fire: Consequences of human-ignited wildfires to homes in the U.S. (1992-2015) (603611)
Nathan Mietkiewicz, Boulder, CO, United States, Jennifer Balch, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES Earth Lab, Boulder, CO, United States, Tania Schoennagel, University of Colorado at Boulder, INSTARR, Boulder, CO, United States, Stefan Leyk, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography, Boulder, CO, United States, Bethany Bradley, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Environmental Conservation, Amherst, MA, United States and Lise St. Denis, University of Colorado at Boulder, Earth Lab, Boulder, CO, United States
Mortality in US Hemodialysis Patients Following Exposure to Wildfire Smoke (604091)
Lauren Wyatt, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Yuzhi Xi, ORISE @ USEPA, Research Triangle Park, United States, Abhijit V Kshirsagar, UNC Kidney Center and Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Timothy J Wade, US Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Durham, United States, David B Richardson, Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, M Alan Brookhart, Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Ana Rappold, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States
