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Addressing urban climate hazard vulnerability in Canada through building retrofit techniques and strategies
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The rapid growth of urban centers in Canada has highlighted the need for cities to improve urban resiliency to better protect the health and comfort of its residents. A key component of urban resiliency is a city’s ability to maintain occupant safety and comfort in the face of adverse climate...
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Bottom-up controls of flammability in the Canadian boreal forest at multiple temporal and spatial scales
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Wildfires are the most common disturbances occurring in the Canadian boreal forests. Their incidence and characteristics are controlled by different factors at different temporal and spatial scales. At every scale, vegetation is an essential factor fueling fires. Despite its importance, some...
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Enhanced prediction of extreme fire weather conditions in spring using the Hot-Dry-Windy Index in Alberta, Canada
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Fire weather indices used to forecast fire behaviour provide valuable information for wildland fire prevention, preparedness, and suppression. The primary index used in Canada, the Fire Weather Index System, provides qualitative fuel moisture and fire behaviour indices. However, the indices used...
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Identifying and analyzing spatial and temporal patterns of lightning-ignited wildfires in Western Canada from 1981-2018.
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This study looked at the spatial and temporal patterns of lightning-ignited wildfires in Western Canada from 1981 to 2018. Studying patterns of lightning fires over space and time can provide great insight into understanding, highlighting, and quantifying these sequences. This is of great...
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Long-Term Impacts of Severe Wildfire and Salvage Logging on Macroinvertebrate Assemblages and Food Web Structure in Rocky Mountain Headwater Streams
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Wildfire is an important natural disturbance on forested landscapes influencing both physical and biological processes. The Lost Creek wildfire in 2003 was one of the more severe on Alberta’s eastern slopes and provided a unique opportunity to assess the long-term impacts of wildfire on northern...
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Fall 2020
In many regions of the world, fires are the primary environmental disturbance producing a mosaic of burned and unburned patches varying at temporal and spatial scales and providing a variety of ecosystem services. Fire perimeters mark the separation between the burned and unburned matrix of a...
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The Technical Efficiency of Wildfire Suppression in Alberta, Canada: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
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Wildfire management agencies are increasingly interested in the efficiency of wildfire suppression as they work to protect human lives and communities from wildfire damages under constrained management budgets. In Alberta, climate change is expected to increase the length of the wildfire season...
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Spring 2023
Wildfires are a natural part of Canadian ecosystems, but sometimes pose a threat to people. In Canada, when public safety is threatened by a wildfire encroaching into the wildland-urban interface (WUI), local authorities will typically recommend and lead evacuation of the area. During...
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Wildfire Fuel Mapping with Convolutional Neural Networks for Remote Automated Exposure Assessment
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While beneficial to the natural environment in many cases, wildfires become hazardous when they intersect with the built environment. As such, there is an ongoing effort to understand the fire environment, the fuels it contains, and the way that wildfire interacts with the built environment. In...
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Wildfire impacts to soil in Alberta’s southern Rocky Mountains: pyrogenic carbon abundance and character on a post-wildfire landscape
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Pyrogenic carbon (PyC) is a ubiquitous soil constituent produced as a result of wildland and anthropogenic fire. The dynamic nature of wildfire produces heterogenous chemical by-products in a broad range of sizes and chemical makeup, from lighter soots to heavier charcoals. A large component of...