NH004
Assessing Wildfire Danger and Impacts in Changing Environments across the World
Session ID#: 80671
Session Description:
Wildfire is a major natural disaster under various environmental conditions in different climate regimes across the world. Even in a given region, natural conditions may change in a short term and nonlinearly affect wildfire danger. For instance, high precipitations in California this year reduce wildfire danger now, but effectively growing vegetation that increases the danger in the upcoming dry season. Moreover, human activities, such as in wildland-urban interfaces, increasingly exert stresses on ecosystems exacerbating wildfire danger and impacts. Wildfire characteristics such as frequency and intensity are thus affected by the coupled natural and human system at different spatiotemporal scales. This interdisciplinary session will cover a wide range of wildfire-related topics such as fire monitoring and forecast, estimating gas emissions, and studying human impacts. This session will address how a changing world, including the nature, socioeconomics, and technologies can advance our understanding and assessments of wildfires worldwide.
Index Terms:
3390 Wildland fire model [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4315 Monitoring, forecasting, prediction [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4323 Human impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4337 Remote sensing and disasters [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Primary Convener: Seung Hee Kim, Chapman University, Center of Excellence in Earth Systems Modeling & Observations, Orange, CA, United States
Conveners: Son V Nghiem, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Ramesh P Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, School of Engineering, Mandi, India and Menas Kafatos, Chapman University, Center of Excellence in Earth Systems Modeling & Observations, Orange, CA, United States
Primary Liaison: Shenyue Jia, Chapman University, Center of Excellence in Earth Systems Modeling & Observations, Orange, CA, United States
A New Method for Plant Flammability Estimation Using SMAP Soil Moisture (499252)
Shenyue Jia1, Seung Hee Kim1, Son V Nghiem2 and Menas Kafatos1, (1)Chapman University, Center of Excellence in Earth Systems Modeling & Observations, Orange, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Increasing Concurrence of Wildfire Drivers Doubles Megafire Critical Danger Days in Southern California (512264)
Mojtaba Sadegh1, Mohammad Sadegh Khorshidi2, Philip E Dennison3, Mohammad Nikoo2, Amir AghaKouchak4 and Charles H Luce5, (1)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, (2)Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, (3)University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (4)University of California, Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, (5)USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise, ID, United States
Wildfire spread in Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) communities in California: Introducing the urban fuel (541846)
Nima Masoudvaziri, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States, Fernando Jose Szasdi Bardales, University at Buffalo, Civil engineering, Buffalo, United States, Negar Elhami Khorasani, University at Buffalo, Civil Engineering, Buffalo, NY, United States and Kang Sun, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States
Using social media and environmental data for wildfire detection based on machine learning techniques (563984)
Shu Li1, Yicong Huang2, Phu Nguyen1, Vesta Afzali Gorooh1, Tingxuan Gu2, Yuan Fu2, Qiaonan Huang2, Yutong Wang2, Shiling Zhang2, Yichi Zhang2, Yue Zhuang2 and Chen Li2, (1)University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Computer Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Remotely sensed live fuel moisture content across the Western USA and its relationship with climate aridity (569991)
Krishna Rao, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, A. Park Williams, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Alexandra G. Konings, Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
The characteristics of burned forest lands vary depending on the fire size (608051)
Blas Mola1, Marina Peris-Llopis1, Mari Selkimäki1, Olalla Díaz-Yañez1 and Jose Ramon Gonzalez-Olabarria2, (1)University of Eastern Finland, School of Forest Sciences, Joensuu, Finland, (2)Forest Sciences and Technology Centre of Catalonia, Solsona, Spain
