G. Pellizzaro, V. Bacciu, C. Scarpa, B. Arca, M. Salis, M. Casula, L. Giudice, M. Schirru, Fabrizio Pedes, A. Canu
{"title":"Impact of Four Large Fires on Air Quality in Sardinia (Italy)","authors":"G. Pellizzaro, V. Bacciu, C. Scarpa, B. Arca, M. Salis, M. Casula, L. Giudice, M. Schirru, Fabrizio Pedes, A. Canu","doi":"10.3390/environsciproc2022017093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2022017093","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":291013,"journal":{"name":"The Third International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124659356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modelling the Behavior and Extent of Mid-Holocene Lightning-Caused Fires in Portugal","authors":"Paulo Fernandes, N. Guiomar, David A. Davim","doi":"10.3390/environsciproc2022017089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2022017089","url":null,"abstract":": Fires of natural origin are usually a very small fraction of the total number of fires in southern Europe, and as such, they are not relevant to contemporary fire regimes and policies, even if they occasionally develop into large-scale conflagrations. However, lighting-caused fires might have been a relevant landscape-level disturbance prior to the anthropogenic control exerted through land use and land cover, fire use, and wildfire suppression. Our goal was to simulate fire behavior characteristics (rate of spread, fireline intensity) for recent (2001–2020) individual lightning fires occurring in Portugal but under a mid-Holocene landscape context, i.e., just before the human-induced Neolithic disturbances, including burning. We selected three study areas (1240–2615 km 2 ) with distinctively high densities of lightning fires (4.4–7.0 per 100 km 2 per year) and quantified deciduous broadleaved forest, evergreen broadleaved forest and shrubland cover within each area at 6 ka BP (before present) by combining mapped forest cover (from a palynological reconstruction) and potential natural vegetation series. Then, we simulated the unbounded hourly spread of each fire until its natural extinction (determined by fuel moisture) and allowing for smoldering-only periods with subsequent reactivation, using a suite of selected semi-empirical and empirical models and ERA5-Land (ECMWF, Reading, UK) reanalysis weather data for the location and duration of the event. The simulations considered uncertainty in vegetation cover and in the likelihood of fire reactivation after light rainfall. The unbounded fire size exceeded observed fire size by up to four orders of magnitude. Preliminary results for one of the study areas suggest an infrequent and mixed-severity natural fire regime affecting about 1–4% of the landscape every year. The study offers increased understanding of the past regime and ecological role of natural fire in the Mediterranean basin and can inform improved fire management policies in the region.","PeriodicalId":291013,"journal":{"name":"The Third International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129360893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Casula, B. Arca, G. Laneve, E. Cadau, Raffaele Bua, Fabrizio Pedes, M. Salis, P. Andronico, A. Ventura, F. Casula, Maurizio Cao
{"title":"Integrated Platform for Wildfire Prevention and Management: The S2IGI Project","authors":"M. Casula, B. Arca, G. Laneve, E. Cadau, Raffaele Bua, Fabrizio Pedes, M. Salis, P. Andronico, A. Ventura, F. Casula, Maurizio Cao","doi":"10.3390/environsciproc2022017088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2022017088","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":291013,"journal":{"name":"The Third International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133533466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fire Behavior Pathways under Climate Change and Management Scenarios","authors":"L. E. Miezīte, A. Améztegui, Marcos Rodrigues","doi":"10.3390/environsciproc2022017087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2022017087","url":null,"abstract":"the provision of services The FIREPATHS project aims to assess future wildfire danger by coupling dynamics, climate modeling and wildfire behavior simulation. The project explores different forest management scenarios based on several EU forest policies (promotion of carbon stocks, water vulnerability reduction, biomass production and business-as-usual) under the RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 climate pathways in the period 2020–2100. We evaluated fire behavior","PeriodicalId":291013,"journal":{"name":"The Third International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128356473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Ascoli, Jose V. Moris, Ângelo Sil, P. Fernandes
{"title":"Using the Rothermel Package in R to Test Standard and Custom Fuel Models against Global Fire Behavior Data","authors":"D. Ascoli, Jose V. Moris, Ângelo Sil, P. Fernandes","doi":"10.3390/environsciproc2022017086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2022017086","url":null,"abstract":"1 Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Sciences, University of Torino, 10095 Torino, Italy 2 InBIO/CIBIO—Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal 3 Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB), University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal * Correspondence: d.ascoli@unito.it † Presented at the Third International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk, Sardinia, Italy, 3–6 May 2022.","PeriodicalId":291013,"journal":{"name":"The Third International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124879858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Parisien, Quinn E. Barber, M. Flannigan, P. Jain
{"title":"The Effect of Broadleaf-Tree Greenup on Springtime Wildfire Occurrence in Boreal Canada","authors":"M. Parisien, Quinn E. Barber, M. Flannigan, P. Jain","doi":"10.3390/environsciproc2022017085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2022017085","url":null,"abstract":": The broadleaf tree species of the boreal biome of Canada have low flammability compared to conifers, which is in large part due to the high moisture content of their foliage. However, there is a period following snowmelt and prior to leaf budding (i.e., greenup), termed the ‘spring window’ by fire managers, when these forests are more conducive to fire ignition and spread. The goal of this study was to evaluate the length and variability of the spring window from year to year across ecological regions of boreal Canada and to determine whether it is associated with an increased number of human-caused wildfires. We used remotely sensed descriptions of snow cover and greenup to describe the annual spring window for nine ecological regions from 2001 to 2018. Then, we statistically compared the timing of the windows and associated the temporal patterns of fire-conducive weather to human-caused wildfire occurrence. The results show a positive association between the number of human-caused wildfires and the timing of the spring window in only two of the eight regions (the Boreal Plain and Taiga Plain, both in western Canada); however, these are two of the most fire-active areas in the country. A specific set of factors must coincide for regional fire regimes to exhibit a fire-prone spring window: (i) a relatively high (>20%) proportion of broadleaf forest cover, (ii) a high load of human ignitions (because lighting is rare in the spring), and (ii) frequent windy and dry weather conditions. Although the fire regimes that are active in the springtime are mostly confined to parts of western Canada at present, other areas of boreal Canada may see an increase in spring wildfires if projected climatic changes are borne out and if a growing number of people settle into boreal wildlands.","PeriodicalId":291013,"journal":{"name":"The Third International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121818819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Water-Based Shields Deployment on Terrain during Wildfire Spread: A Modelling Approach Using Distributed Information through Autonomous Agents","authors":"Fabio Alaimo Ponziani","doi":"10.3390/environsciproc2022017083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2022017083","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":291013,"journal":{"name":"The Third International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132791372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Is Normal and Why Is It New? Exploring How, Where, and Why Fire Regimes Are Changing through the Lens of California","authors":"A. Syphard","doi":"10.3390/environsciproc2022017084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2022017084","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":291013,"journal":{"name":"The Third International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130143192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luiz Felipe Galizia, R. Barbero, Marcos Rodrigues, T. Curt
{"title":"Pyrogeography: An Alternative Zonation for Europe","authors":"Luiz Felipe Galizia, R. Barbero, Marcos Rodrigues, T. Curt","doi":"10.3390/environsciproc2022017080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2022017080","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":291013,"journal":{"name":"The Third International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130434792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predicting the Arrival of the Unpredictable: An Approach for Foreseeing the Transition to Chaos in Wildfire Propagation","authors":"V. Egorova, G. Pagnini","doi":"10.3390/environsciproc2022017069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2022017069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":291013,"journal":{"name":"The Third International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125580535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}