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A study of the relation of meteorological variables to monthly provincial area burned by wildfire in Canada 1953-80
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Harrington, J.B., Flannigan, M.D.
The relation between meteorological variables and the monthly area burned by wildfire from May to August 1953-80 in nine Canadian \"provinces\" was investigated. A purely statistical approach to estimating the monthly provincial area burned, using meteorological variables as predictors, succeeded...
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Fall 2016
Humans are the major cause of forest fires in the spring in Alberta, and have resulted in major property damage in both the Flat Top Complex fires in 2011 and the Fort McMurray fire in 2016. Fire occurrence prediction (FOP) models can help predict when and where fires can be expected in order to...
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2002
Todd, J.B., Bosch, E.M., Logan, K.A., Mason, J.A., Skinner, W.R., Hirsch, K.G., Martell, D.L., Wotton, B.M., Flannigan, M.D., Stocks, B.J., Amiro, B.D.
A Large Fire Database (LFDB), which includes information on fire location, start date, final size, cause, and suppression action, has been developed for all fires larger than 200 ha in area for Canada for the 1959-1997 period. The LFDB represents only 3.1% of the total number of Canadian fires...
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Spring 2014
Lightning is widely acknowledged as a major cause of wildland fires in Canada. On average, 250,000 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes occur in Alberta every year. Lightning-caused wildland fires in remote areas have considerably larger suppression costs and a much greater chance of escaping...
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Long Term Effects of Wildfire on Permafrost Stability and Carbon Cycling in Northern Peatlands
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Changing fire dynamics and increasing global temperatures are causing changes to the fire regime and permafrost stability in the Arctic. Models have separately predicted the widespread thawing of permafrost and increasing magnitude and intensity of wildfires over the next century. However, while...
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Fall 2016
Although wildland fires are a beneficial ecosystem process, they can also cause destruction to human-built structures and infrastructure, as evidenced by disasters such as the Fort McMurray fire in 2016 and the Slave Lake fires in 2011. This type of destruction occurs in the “wildland-urban...
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More people, more fire, less water: exploring wildfire risks to water security in a changing world
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Water security is one of the main paradigms presently shaping global water governance. At its very core, water security aims at preserving freshwater resources from any form of risk, natural or human-caused, that could imperil or further delay the stability and the sustainability of societies and...
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2011
Flannigan, M.D., Krawchuk, M.A., Bowman, L.M., Moritz, M.A., Parisien, M.A., Parks, S.A.
In the boreal forest of North America, as in any fire-prone biome, three environmental factors must coincide for a wildfire to occur: an ignition source, flammable vegetation, and weather that is conducive to fire. Despite recent advances, the relative importance of these factors remains the...
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2024-01-01
Babaei, Mohammad Hossein, Wong, Stephen D.
Disasters significantly impact communities, often require large-scale evacuations, and damage key infrastructure (e.g., power, transportation). With growing electric vehicle (EV) adoption and electrification of transportation, governments and utilities may face significant power challenges during...
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Taking it into Their Own Hands: Innovative Wildfire Mitigation Measures at the Municipal Level
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Wildfires are an environmental hazard event experienced by populations and communities across the world. These events can have significant and long-lasting effects on the communities that are impacted, which makes the importance of mitigation apparent. Partners in Protection, a non-governmental...