Sentences with phrase «u.s. wildland fires»

So far in 2011 (mid-June 2011), the number of U.S. wildland fires indicate an annual total near the average for the last 10 years.

Not exact matches

The study by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is the most comprehensive examination in history of a wildland urban interface (WUI) fire.

(S. Ferguson, A. R. Dahale; B. Shotorban; S. Mahalingam; D. R. Weise, «The role of moisture on combustion of pyrolysis gases in wildland fires,» Combustion Science and Technology, 185: 435 - 453, 2013; and Yashwanth, B.L.; S. Ferguson; B. Shotorban; S. Mahalingam; D. R. Weise, «Numerical investigation of influence of moisture content on thermal behavior of heated wood,» Paper 070FR - 0208, presented at the 8th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, May 19 - 22, 2013)

In other words, there is a large role that wildland management can play in limiting the severity of wildfires in western U.S. forests even as the climate warms and conditions become right for larger and potentially more severe fires.

While the ecology of fire in the western U.S. has been studied extensively, there is a dearth of information about how humans, particularly those residing at the wildland - urban interface, influence and respond to wildfire, and how institutional barriers may hinder effective fire management.

Researchers at the U.S. Forest Services Pacific Wildland Fire Lab looked at past fires in the West to create a statistical model of how future climate change may affect wildfires.

Implementation of National Fire Plan fuel treatments near the wildland - urban interface in the western U.S. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.