Sentences with phrase «for wildland fire»

«The warmer the Earth gets, the more fire we get, and the more fire we get, the more greenhouse gases we get,» says Mike Flannigan, director of the Western Partnership for Wildland Fire Science at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

Concerns about peat fires worsening climate change Mike Flannigan, director of the University of Alberta's Western Partnership for Wildland Fire Science who was not involved with the analysis, said it's important to note that wildfires are a part of northern boreal forests» ecology.

Not exact matches

The outlook this summer is sobering: Wildland fire potential for most of coastal California and the Sierra Nevada Mountains is above normal and is expected to remain that way through October, according to the National Interagency Fire Cenfire potential for most of coastal California and the Sierra Nevada Mountains is above normal and is expected to remain that way through October, according to the National Interagency Fire CenFire Center.

Another stakeholder at the meeting was Paul Summerfelt, a wildland fire management officer for the city of Flagstaff who runs the city's watershed protection project.

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.

«The authors clearly demonstrate that a human influence on wildland fire as a consequence of global warming isn't just a prediction for the future — it's happening now,» said Kevin Anchukaitis, a University of Arizona scientist who was not involved with the study.

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[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

A recent study in the International Journal of Wildland Fire closed in on the optimal strategy: «The role of defensible space for residential structure protection during wildfires.»

The proximity of homes to wilderness in the wildland - urban interface presents another significant risk: Humans, directly or indirectly, are responsible for starting 90 percent of fires in Southern California.

For example, wildland fire use has been an effective and inexpensive tool for maintaining forest resilience across large areas in remote forests and woodlands — the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico and Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona [62], [63]-- but has been used less frequently in forests near population centers and towFor example, wildland fire use has been an effective and inexpensive tool for maintaining forest resilience across large areas in remote forests and woodlands — the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico and Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona [62], [63]-- but has been used less frequently in forests near population centers and towfor maintaining forest resilience across large areas in remote forests and woodlands — the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico and Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona [62], [63]-- but has been used less frequently in forests near population centers and towns.

Completion of treatments in the first analysis area of the 4FRI project could have a multiplying effect on maintaining forest resilience if the thinning itself allows for increased use of wildland fire or prescribed fire over many more hectares.

The aftermath of these fires will likely also have officials rethinking which areas are at risk for wildfire and better strategies for living in the «wildland - urban interface» — areas adjacent to wildlands that are at risk of fire.

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.

In the West, the populated fire zone is called the urban wildland interface, a clunky term to describe a vulnerable habitat for almost 40 percent of new homes built over the last two decades.

This newsletter contains articles on the following: 2016 as a record - warm year for the province, recent PCIC research on Fraser River Basin climate impacts, recent Data Portal upgrades, Director Francis Zwiers's keynote at the Wildland Fire Canada Meeting and recognition as a highly - cited researcher, a staff profile on Megan Kirchmeier - Young, our Pacific Climate Seminar Series, PCIC's contributions to the AGU Fall Meeting and Northwest Climate Conference, the most recent Science Brief, staff changes and recent papers by PCIC staff and affiliates.

He went on to say that federal authorities have done a poor job of implementing methods to reduce the number of deadly fires, and that this has been devastating for America's wildlands.