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Why only a few wildfires become extreme
Hot and dry conditions have become synonymous with the risk of extreme wildfires. But a new paper argues that such conditions are not by themselves sufficient for blazes, and most warm years do not result in the burning of exceptionally large areas.
A Framework for Conducting and Communicating Probabilistic Wildland Fire Forecasts
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Wildfires and winds in California
How dry conditions and high winds are fuelling fires in California. Also African genomes sequenced, historic climate data in Africa and gases from Comet Borisov. Show more The Santa Ana in the south, and the Diablo in the north, are winds that are fuelling the terrible fires raging in California this week. They’re also blamed for bringing down power lines that sometimes start the fires.
California Wildfires Were Terrible Last Year. Will This Year Be Worse?
As quickly as the fire season has raged throughout California in the first part of the year, there is no way to forecast what the rest of 2018 will be like, McLean said. A lot will depend on what people do and how the weather develops. In the end, it could come down to a dry hour over the wrong patch of grass.
An Accurate Fire-Spread Algorithm in the Weather Research and Forecasting Model Using the Level-Set Method
The level-set method is typically used to track and propagate the fire perimeter in wildland fire models. Herein, a high-order level-set method using fifth-order WENO scheme for the discretization of spatial derivatives and third-order explicit Runge-Kutta temporal integration is implemented within the Weather Research and Forecasting model wildland fire physics package, WRF-Fire. The algorithm includes solution of an additional partial differential equation for level-set reinitialization.
How the Blue Cut Blaze Spawns Those Insane Firenadoes
The Blue Cut fire is the latest conflagration burning up drought-ridden California, and it’s truly massive. About 60 miles northeast of Los Angeles, it roared to life quickly, starting out at a mere five acres on Tuesday and expanding into an inferno that has surprised seasoned firefighters with its intensity. So far, it has charred 35,969 acres of land, forced more than 82,000 people to evacuate their homes, and blocked off major transportation corridors.
NSF, NBC Learn and The Weather Channel showcase research to protect against nature's fury
Press Release 15-119 NSF, NBC Learn and The Weather Channel showcase research to protect against nature's fury Participate in Twitter chat #NatrlHazards to learn more NSF Geosciences, NBC Learn and the Weather Channel present a 10-part series on natural disasters.
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