Sentences with phrase «total area burned»

But fire suppression by management is found in many studies to explain much less of the total area burned than does the variability in weather and climate (See: National Research Council, 2011.

In part because fire records are much more reliable for large fires compared to small fires, Westerling and colleagues focused only on large fires (at least 1000 acres in size); by doing this they eliminated over 99 % of the total reported fires, yet could still include 73 % of the total area burned.

In part because fire records are much more reliable for large fires compared to small fires, and also because large fires are more destructive, Westerling and colleagues focused only on large fires (at least 1000 acres in size); by doing this they eliminated over 99 % of the total reported fires, yet could still include 73 % of the total area burned.

These factors are helping drive an increase in the total area burned.

We found that the average number of large wildfires burning each year and the total area burning in these fires have both increased dramatically since the 1970s.

Some large high severity fires occurred in these areas during the 1950s drought, and subsequent droughts, but the largest total areas burned in forests were an order of magnitude smaller than the largest fires today.

Not exact matches

The number of wildfires touching more than 50,000 acres has been increasing over the last 30 years, and the total acreage burned this decade is more than double the area burned in the 1990s.

The deceased, according to a Senior Resident at the Korle Bu Reconstruction, Plastic Surgery and Burns Unit, Dr. Nyigba Edem suffered a 100 per cent total body surface area burn, which means every part of the skin was badly affected.

This individualized therapy would strategically place «firebreaks» of much smaller burns around areas from which the model predicts that vascular damage will spread in that patient, greatly reducing the total amount of damage and reducing the probability that damage will spread between the burns and propagate despite treatment.

Because the skin sheets molded easily to small areas, children with burned hands, fingers, and feet regained total mobility.

The total area these fires burned increased at a rate of nearly 90,000 acres a year — an area the size of Las Vegas, according to the study.

According to the National Interagency Fire Center, with nearly two months still to go in the fire season, the total area already burned this year is 30 percent more than in an average year, and fires have consumed more than 8.6 million acres, an area larger than the state of Maryland.

The years with the earliest spring snowmelt, which was one - third of the total number of years we studied, account for more than 70 percent of the area burned in large forest wildfires, and 43 percent of the area burned in nonforest fires.

While they make up only 1 percent of total body fat, they help burn fat in the major white fat storage areas of the belly, hips, and everywhere else.

«A combination of HIIT cardio, total - body strength training, and the occasional long, slow, distance session will burn the fat off the stubborn areas, like your back,» Lowe adds.

One driver complaint noted the appearance of «an unknown liquid burning down to the ground from the engine area,» but despite attempts to extinguish the fire with water, the Jeep was a total loss within minutes.

Bug fixes are still update worthy (hopefully none exist) 5 Types of towers: - Arrow: Single target, attacks ground and air units - Cannon: Single target splash damage, attacks ground units only - Splash: Area of Effect (AoE) attack in radius around tower, attacks ground units only - Air: Single target shot that splits into two new projectiles, attacks air units only - Wall: Cheap tower for creating a path for creeps 3 Tower Elements: - Ice: Slow attack, long range, costly, applies slow to enemies - Fire: Fast attack, short range, expensive, applies burn to enemies - Normal: Average stats across the board, cheap 6 Types of Towers: - Normal: Basic creep that progresses slowly ahead with an average health - Armored: High health point creep that can take a beating, but is also very slow - Speed: Fastest creep in the game, but also one of the weakest - Flying: This creep will bypass your ground defenses and walls by flying from start to finish - Dividing: This creep will separate and split into smaller creeps until it is killed a total of 7 times - Parachute: You thought the Flying creep was bad?

Hansen et al 2013: «Humanity, so far, has burned only a small portion (purple area in figure 6) of total fossil fuel reserves and resources.