Sentences with phrase «study of wildfire»

But in a newly published study of wildfire coverage in Colorado, my co-authors and I found a more complicated story.

KINGS BEACH, CALIFORNIA — Early results from the largest ever study of wildfire prevention alternatives suggests that prescribed fire is usually cheaper and more ecologically sound than mechanical thinning.

It isn't a scene from a Vietnam war movie, but a bona fide study of wildfires.

Strict attributional studies of wildfire?)

Not exact matches

The study also shows that the length of the wildfire season correlates closely with changes in temperature, humidity, rainfall, and other climate indicators.

But in study published in Environmental Research Letters in 2015, researchers projected that the area scorched by wildfires in Southern California will grow by as much as 77 percent by the middle of the century due to warming.

«But if there's a 100 microgram per meter smoke day, we'd expect that to go to a 100 percent increase of inhaler refills for the population,» Katelyn O'Dell, who studies the health hazards of wildfire smoke at Colorado state university said.

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The findings of a U.S. Forest Service study shed light on how vegetation responds to severe wildfire and whether further disturbances from logging affect regrowth.

In 2010, we went to Mongolia for a month, but in actuality we only had 10 to 15 days in the field, during which time we hoped to study the impact of climate change on wildfires in some of the country's larch forests.

For example, 10 of the 14 burned areas in the study, which include well - known wildfires like the Moonlight (2007) and Power (2009) fires, did not meet Forest Service stocking density thresholds for mixed conifer forests, making them good candidates for replanting and restoration efforts.

This study highlights the importance of considering hydrological drought for wildfire prediction, and the researchers recommend that hydrology should be considered in future studies of the impact of projected ENSO strength, including effects on tropical ecosystems, and biodiversity conservation.

The study, «Response of understory vegetation to salvage logging following a high - severity wildfire,» reports a modest difference between logged and unlogged areas for some shrubs, but researchers with the agency's Pacific Southwest Research Station conclude the diversity of plant species and their abundance, as a whole, differed little between logged and unlogged sites.

«Our study begins to provide insight into some of the reasons why wildfire managers see a range of evacuation behavior.

With hurricanes, wildfires and drought, 2017 is chock - full of extreme event candidates for next year's crop of BAMS attribution studies.

«Wildfires are a meaningful topic to research in and of themselves, but they also help solve this causality problem that is difficult in our studies of pollution,» McCoy said.

Their results, published in the journal Climatic Change, point to the need for new or modified wildfire management and evacuation programs in the nation's high - risk regions, said Jia Coco Liu, a recent Ph.D. graduate at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) and lead author of the study.

A surge in major wildfire events in the U.S. West as a consequence of climate change will expose tens of millions of Americans to high levels of air pollution in the coming decades, according to a new Yale - led study conducted with collaborators from Harvard.

In this study, Horney and colleagues focused on PAHs, which are a product of combustion from human activities such as petroleum consumption in transportation or natural processes such as wildfires.

The continuing study will yield useful information on ecological effects, although not necessarily on fire risk, as it will not study wildfire directly, according to forest scientist Philip Omi of Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

When primatologist Jill Pruetz found herself threatened by wildfires in the savannas of Fongoli, Senegal, in 2006 she had two options: stay with the chimpanzees she was studying, or run.

The new study noted that every year from 1979 to 2013, on average, about 865 million acres of land all over the world was affected by wildfires.

In 2010, Pederson and coauthor Amy Hessl, a tree - ring scientist at West Virginia University, were studying wildfires in Mongolia when they came across a stand of gnarled, stunted Siberian pines growing out of cracks in an old solid - rock lava flow in the Khangai Mountains.

«This study adds to a growing body of knowledge about the increases in wildfire risk and climate change,» said Chris Field, director of the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution for Science.

David Bowman, a professor of environmental change biology at the University of Tasmania in Australia and lead author of the study, said he was motivated to map and analyze wildfires because his city, Hobart, Australia, was devastated by a megafire 50 years ago this month.

That much scorched earth was unheard of 30 years ago, and the U.S. isn't alone: Wildfires are gaining ground worldwide, according to a July study.

In the Waldo Canyon fire study, the researchers found that only 48 of the destroyed homes were ignited directly from the wildfire.

A new study of Colorado's devastating 2012 Waldo Canyon wildfire demonstrates that prompt and effective action can significantly change the outcome of fires that occur in areas where residential communities and undeveloped wildlands meet.

Bringing together observed and simulated measurements on ocean temperatures, atmospheric pressure, water soil and wildfire occurrences, the researchers have a powerful tool in their hands, which they are willing to test in other regions of the world: «Using the same climate model configuration, we will also study the soil water and fire risk predictability in other parts of our world, such as the Mediterranean, Australia or parts of Asia,» concludes Timmermann.

The findings from the wildfire study offer a new clue as to how naturally occurring charcoal can remain stable for long periods of time, Masiello said.

My colleagues and I set out to study the patterns that appear in local media coverage of wildfires so that we could better understand what policy problems local journalists bring up, how they assign blame or responsibility, and whether these trends change over time.

«Atlantic / Pacific ocean temperature difference fuels US wildfires: New study shows that difference in water temperature between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans together with global warming impact the risk of drought and wildfire in southwestern North America.»

In this study, researchers examined vegetation change as a function of wildfire disturbance and climate change over a 100 - year period.

«Scientist studies effects of wildfire management on bird populations.»

Studies in Alaska and Canada have projected that hotter, drier summers may increase annual wildfire burn areas by two to three times by the end of the century.

This image was created with data from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Project that the authors of a new study used to measure large wildfires in the western United States.

«Twenty eight years is a pretty short period of record, and yet we are seeing statistically significant trends in different wildfire variables — it is striking,» said Max Moritz, a co-author of the study and a fire specialist at the University of California - Berkeley Cooperative Extension.

While other studies have looked at wildfire records over longer time periods, this is the first study to use high - resolution satellite data to examine wildfire trends over a broad range of landscapes, explained Littell.

The scientists had received a National Science Foundation grant to study the possible future impacts of climate change on Mongolian wildfires, and were looking for tree core samples to read what they could of the past record.

Previous studies have estimated the effect of climate change and population growth on wildfire patterns and the risk of damage to buildings and homes in California.

This is according to Alexandra Larsen of North Carolina State University in the US who led the first ever study taking a long - term look into the effects that wildfire smoke has on air quality across the US.

«This study shows that wildfires also emit three times more aerosol per ton of fuel burned than prescribed fires.»

The study found that health effects of wildfire pollution are significantly associated with poverty and income inequality.18 The study first finds that per 100µg / m3 of PM2.5 exposure, there was a 66 percent increase for hospital visits related to asthma on the day of exposure, and a 42 percent increase in visits related to congestive heart failure (CHF) the day after exposure.

These findings are consistent with other studies, as highlighted in a critical review of the literature on the health impacts of wildfires published in 2016 by Reid et al. 17 Various respiratory problems in asthmatics and non-asthmatics alike, measured by physician visits, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations were found to be strongly associated with wildfire smoke exposure as well as significant declines in lung function for those without asthma.17

Over the course of the study period, emissions from wildfires in drought years alone totalled more than 1bn tonnes, Aragão says.

The researchers also used satellite data to record the total amount of CO2 released as a result of deforestation and wildfires over the study period.

A new study finds that, while rates of deforestation have sharply fallen in the Amazon over the past decade, the number of wildfires affecting the region has remained stubbornly high — particularly in drought years.

In this study, researchers analyzed climate data according to three indices of wildfire danger.

Climate Adaptation: The State of Practice in U.S. Communities is the first study to examine in depth actions that multiple municipalities are taking to address climate - change fueled events like flooding, heat waves, wildfires and intense storms.

He has studied and published on how avian and vegetation systems re-assemble after disturbances such as wildfire, wind - throw and ice storms, and after incidences of forest disease in Boreal ecosystems of North America.