Wildland Fuel Fundamentals And Applications

Author : Robert E. Keane
Publisher : Springer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319090153

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Wildland Fuel Fundamentals and Applications by Robert E. Keane Pdf

A new era in wildland fuel sciences is now evolving in such a way that fire scientists and managers need a comprehensive understanding of fuels ecology and science to fully understand fire effects and behavior on diverse ecosystem and landscape characteristics. This is a reference book on wildland fuel science; a book that describes fuels and their application in land management. There has never been a comprehensive book on wildland fuels; most wildland fuel information was put into wildland fire science and management books as separate chapters and sections. This book is the first to highlight wildland fuels and treat them as a natural resource rather than a fire behavior input. Moreover, there has never been a comprehensive description of fuels and their ecology, measurement, and description under one reference; most wildland fuel information is scattered across diverse and unrelated venues from combustion science to fire ecology to carbon dynamics. The literature and data for wildland fuel science has never been synthesized into one reference; most studies were done for diverse and unique objectives. This book is the first to link the disparate fields of ecology, wildland fire, and carbon to describe fuel science. This just deals with the science and ecology of wildland fuels, not fuels management. However, since expensive fuel treatments are being planned in fire dominated landscapes across the world to minimize fire damage to people, property and ecosystems, it is incredibly important that people understand wildland fuels to develop more effective fuel management activities.

Author : Marc-André Parisien,Enric Batllori,Carol Miller,Sean A. Parks
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9783038970996

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Wildland Fire, Forest Dynamics, and Their Interactions by Marc-André Parisien,Enric Batllori,Carol Miller,Sean A. Parks Pdf

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Wildland Fire, Forest Dynamics, and Their Interactions" that was published in Forests

Author : Yves Bergeron,Sylvie Gauthier
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783038423904

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Fire Regimes: Spatial and Temporal Variability and Their Effects on Forests by Yves Bergeron,Sylvie Gauthier Pdf

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Fire Regimes: Spatial and Temporal Variability and Their Effects on Forests" that was published in Forests

Author : Mark A. Finney,Sara S. McAllister,Jason M. Forthofer,Torben P. Grumstrup
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781486309092

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Wildland Fire Behaviour by Mark A. Finney,Sara S. McAllister,Jason M. Forthofer,Torben P. Grumstrup Pdf

Wildland fires have an irreplaceable role in sustaining many of our forests, shrublands and grasslands. They can be used as controlled burns or occur as free-burning wildfires, and can sometimes be dangerous and destructive to fauna, human communities and natural resources. Through scientific understanding of their behaviour, we can develop the tools to reliably use and manage fires across landscapes in ways that are compatible with the constraints of modern society while benefiting the ecosystems. The science of wildland fire is incomplete, however. Even the simplest fire behaviours – how fast they spread, how long they burn and how large they get – arise from a dynamical system of physical processes interacting in unexplored ways with heterogeneous biological, ecological and meteorological factors across many scales of time and space. The physics of heat transfer, combustion and ignition, for example, operate in all fires at millimetre and millisecond scales but wildfires can become conflagrations that burn for months and exceed millions of hectares. Wildland Fire Behaviour: Dynamics, Principles and Processes examines what is known and unknown about wildfire behaviours. The authors introduce fire as a dynamical system along with traditional steady-state concepts. They then break down the system into its primary physical components, describe how they depend upon environmental factors, and explore system dynamics by constructing and exercising a nonlinear model. The limits of modelling and knowledge are discussed throughout but emphasised by review of large fire behaviours. Advancing knowledge of fire behaviours will require a multidisciplinary approach and rely on quality measurements from experimental research, as covered in the final chapters.

Author : Nicolas R. Dalezios
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351680660

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Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental and Earth System Sciences by Nicolas R. Dalezios Pdf

Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental and Earth System Sciences is a contemporary, multi-disciplinary, multi-scaling, updated, and upgraded approach of applied remote sensing in the environment. The book begins with an overview of remote sensing technology, and then explains the types of data that can be used as well as the image processing and analysis methods that can be applied to each type of application through the use of case studies throughout. Includes a wide spectrum of environmental applications and issues Explains methodological image analysis and interpretation procedures for conducting a variety of environmental analyses Discusses the development of early warning systems Covers monitoring of the environment as a whole – atmosphere, land, and water Explores the latest remote sensing systems in environmental applications This book is an excellent resource for anyone who is interested in remote sensing technologies and their use in Earth systems, natural resources, and environmental science.

Author : Kevin Speer,Scott Goodrick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781108580243

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Wildland Fire Dynamics by Kevin Speer,Scott Goodrick Pdf

Wildland fires are among the most complicated environmental phenomena to model. Fire behavior models are commonly used to predict the direction and rate of spread of wildland fires based on fire history, fuel, and environmental conditions; however, more sophisticated computational fluid dynamic models are now being developed. This quantitative analysis of fire as a fluid dynamic phenomenon embedded in a highly turbulent flow is beginning to reveal the combined interactions of the vegetative structure, combustion-driven convective effects, and atmospheric boundary layer processes. This book provides an overview of the developments in modeling wildland fire dynamics and the key dynamical processes involved. Mathematical and dynamical principles are presented, and the complex phenomena that arise in wildland fire are discussed. Providing a state-of-the-art survey, it is a useful reference for scientists, researchers, and graduate students interested in wildland fire behavior from a broad range of fields.

Author : Tatiana V. Loboda,Nancy H. F. French,Robin C. Puett
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119757023

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Landscape Fire, Smoke, and Health by Tatiana V. Loboda,Nancy H. F. French,Robin C. Puett Pdf

Landscape Fire, Smoke, and Health Linking Biomass Burning Emissions to Human Well-Being Where and when wildfires occur, what pollutants they emit, how the chemistry of smoke changes in the atmosphere, and what impact this air pollution has on human health and well-being are questions explored across different scientific disciplines. Landscape Fire, Smoke, and Health: Linking Biomass Burning Emissions to Human Well-Being is designed to create a foundational knowledge base allowing interdisciplinary teams to interact more effectively in addressing the impacts of air pollution from biomass burning on human health. Volume highlights include: Core concepts, principles, and terminology related to smoke and air quality used in different disciplines Observational and modeling tools and approaches in fire science Methods to sense, model, and map smoke in the atmosphere Impacts of biomass burning smoke on the health and well-being of children and adults Perspectives from researchers, modelers, and practitioners Case studies from different countries Information to support decision-making and policy The American Geophysical Union promotes discovery in Earth and space science for the benefit of humanity. Its publications disseminate scientific knowledge and provide resources for researchers, students, and professionals.

Author : Francisco Castro Rego,Penelope Morgan,Paulo Fernandes,Chad Hoffman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783030698157

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Fire Science by Francisco Castro Rego,Penelope Morgan,Paulo Fernandes,Chad Hoffman Pdf

This textbook provides students and academics with a conceptual understanding of fire behavior and fire effects on people and ecosystems to support effective integrated fire management. Through case studies, interactive spreadsheets programmed with equations and graphics, and clear explanations, the book provides undergraduate, graduate, and professional readers with a straightforward learning path. The authors draw from years of experience in successfully teaching fundamental concepts and applications, synthesizing cutting-edge science, and applying lessons learned from fire practitioners. We discuss fire as part of environmental and human health. Our process-based, comprehensive, and quantitative approach encompasses combustion and heat transfer, and fire effects on people, plants, soils, and animals in forest, grassland, and woodland ecosystems from around the Earth. Case studies and examples link fundamental concepts to local, landscape, and global fire implications, including social-ecological systems. Globally, fire science and integrated fire management have made major strides in the last few decades. Society faces numerous fire-related challenges, including the increasing occurrence of large fires that threaten people and property, smoke that poses a health hazard, and lengthening fire seasons worldwide. Fires are useful to suppress fires, conserve wildlife and habitat, enhance livestock grazing, manage fuels, and in ecological restoration. Understanding fire science is critical to forecasting the implication of global change for fires and their effects. Increasing the positive effects of fire (fuels reduction, enhanced habitat for many plants and animals, ecosystem services increased) while reducing the negative impacts of fires (loss of human lives, smoke and carbon emissions that threaten health, etc.) is part of making fires good servants rather than bad masters.

Author : Cathryn H. Greenberg,Beverly Collins
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030732677

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Fire Ecology and Management: Past, Present, and Future of US Forested Ecosystems by Cathryn H. Greenberg,Beverly Collins Pdf

This edited volume presents original scientific research and knowledge synthesis covering the past, present, and potential future fire ecology of major US forest types, with implications for forest management in a changing climate. The editors and authors highlight broad patterns among ecoregions and forest types, as well as detailed information for individual ecoregions, for fire frequencies and severities, fire effects on tree mortality and regeneration, and levels of fire-dependency by plant and animal communities. The foreword addresses emerging ecological and fire management challenges for forests, in relation to sustainable development goals as highlighted in recent government reports. An introductory chapter highlights patterns of variation in frequencies, severities, scales, and spatial patterns of fire across ecoregions and among forested ecosystems across the US in relation to climate, fuels, topography and soils, ignition sources (lightning or anthropogenic), and vegetation. Separate chapters by respected experts delve into the fire ecology of major forest types within US ecoregions, with a focus on the level of plant and animal fire-dependency, and the role of fire in maintaining forest composition and structure. The regional chapters also include discussion of historic natural (lightning-ignited) and anthropogenic (Native American; settlers) fire regimes, current fire regimes as influenced by recent decades of fire suppression and land use history, and fire management in relation to ecosystem integrity and restoration, wildfire threat, and climate change. The summary chapter combines the major points of each chapter, in a synthesis of US-wide fire ecology and forest management into the future. This book provides current, organized, readily accessible information for the conservation community, land managers, scientists, students and educators, and others interested in how fire behavior and effects on structure and composition differ among ecoregions and forest types, and what that means for forest management today and in the future.

Author : David L. Peterson,Sarah M. McCaffrey,Toral Patel-Weynand
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783030870454

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Wildland Fire Smoke in the United States by David L. Peterson,Sarah M. McCaffrey,Toral Patel-Weynand Pdf

This open access book synthesizes current information on wildland fire smoke in the United States, providing a scientific foundation for addressing the production of smoke from wildland fires. This will be increasingly critical as smoke exposure and degraded air quality are expected to increase in extent and severity in a warmer climate. Accurate smoke information is a foundation for helping individuals and communities to effectively mitigate potential smoke impacts from wildfires and prescribed fires. The book documents our current understanding of smoke science for (1) primary physical, chemical, and biological issues related to wildfire and prescribed fire, (2) key social issues, including human health and economic impacts, and (3) current and anticipated management and regulatory issues. Each chapter provides a summary of priorities for future research that provide a roadmap for developing scientific information that can improve smoke and fire management over the next decade.

Author : Víctor Resco de Dios
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030411923

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Plant-Fire Interactions by Víctor Resco de Dios Pdf

This book provides a unique exploration of the inter-relationships between the science of plant environmental responses and the understanding and management of forest fires. It bridges the gap between plant ecologists, interested in the functional and evolutionary consequences of fire in ecosystems, with foresters and fire managers, interested in effectively reducing fire hazard and damage. This innovation in this study lies in its focus on the physiological responses of plants that are of relevance for predicting forest fire risk, behaviour and management. It covers the evolutionary trade-offs in the resistance of plants to fire and drought, and its implications for predicting fuel moisture and fire risk; the importance of floristics and plant traits, in interaction with landform and atmospheric conditions, to successfully predict fire behaviour, and provides recommendations for pre- and post- fire management, in relation with the functional composition of the community. The book will be particularly focused on examples from Mediterranean environments, but the underlying principles will be of broader utility.

Author : George P. Petropoulos,Tanvir Islam
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781498777599

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Remote Sensing of Hydrometeorological Hazards by George P. Petropoulos,Tanvir Islam Pdf

Extreme weather and climate change aggravate the frequency and magnitude of disasters. Facing atypical and more severe events, existing early warning and response systems become inadequate both in scale and scope. Earth Observation (EO) provides today information at global, regional and even basin scales related to agrometeorological hazards. This book focuses on drought, flood, frost, landslides, and storms/cyclones and covers different applications of EO data used from prediction to mapping damages as well as recovery for each category. It explains the added value of EO technology in comparison with conventional techniques applied today through many case studies.

Author : João Carlos de Oliveira Matias,Leonel Jorge Ribeiro Nunes,Radu Godina
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039210961

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Sustainable Energy Systems: From Primary to End-Use by João Carlos de Oliveira Matias,Leonel Jorge Ribeiro Nunes,Radu Godina Pdf

This book focuses on sustainable energy systems. While several innovative and alternative concepts are presented, the topics of energy policy, life cycle assessment, thermal energy, and renewable energy also play a major role. Models on various temporal and geographical scales are developed to understand the conditions of technical as well as organizational change. New methods of modeling, which can fulfil technical and physical boundary conditions and nevertheless consider economic environmental and social aspects, are also developed.

Author : Marina Astitha,Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128202432

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Extreme Weather Forecasting by Marina Astitha,Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos Pdf

Extreme Weather Forecasting reviews current knowledge about extreme weather events, including key elements and less well-known variables to accurately forecast them. The book covers multiple temporal scales as well as components of current weather forecasting systems. Sections cover case studies on successful forecasting as well as the impacts of extreme weather predictability, presenting a comprehensive and model agnostic review of best practices for atmospheric scientists and others who utilize extreme weather forecasts. Reviews recent developments in numerical prediction for better forecasting of extreme weather events Covers causes and mechanisms of high impact extreme events and how to account for these variables when forecasting Includes numerous case studies on successful forecasting, outlining why they worked

Author : Anonim
Publisher : TheBookEdition
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782956351726

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