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Rossana Caroni, Monica Pinardi, Gary Free, Daniela Stroppiana, Lorenzo Parigi, Giulio Tellina, Mariano Bresciani, Clément Albergel and Claudia Giardino
A study was carried out to investigate the effects of wildfires on lake water quality using a source dataset of 2024 lakes worldwide, covering different lake types and ecological settings. Satellite-derived datasets (Lakes_cci and Fire_cci) were used and...
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Tareq Khan
Wildfires kill and injure people, destroy residences, pollute the air, and cause economic loss. In this paper, a low-power Internet of Things (IoT)-based sensor network is developed, which automatically detects fires in forests and sends the location to ...
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Sultan Çogay and Gökhan Seçinti
Wildfires have become a global problem in recent years. Authorities are looking for various technological and auxiliary solutions to deal with this environmental crisis. One of the advances being utilized in the forest fire field and its aftermath is unm...
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Nikolaos Depountis, Maria Michalopoulou, Katerina Kavoura, Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos and Nikolaos Sabatakakis
In recent decades, wildfires have become a serious threat worldwide, producing disasters in the natural and anthropogenic environment as well as serious economic losses. One of wildfire?s major impacts is soil erosion, as it may cause major problems in b...
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Xochitl Cruz Núñez,Estefanía Bulnes Aquino
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Wildfires impact both ecosystems and human welfare, being carbon monoxide and PM2.5 particles the most critical emissions affecting human health. The impact of a fire in the Tepozteco National Park, in the state of Morelos, Mexico was evaluated on its po...
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Zheng Lu and Irina N. Sokolik
We examine the 2002 Yakutsk wildfire event and simulate the impacts of smoke aerosols on local radiative energy budget, using the WRF-Chem-SMOKE model. When comparing satellite retrievals (the Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) dataset) with model simulation...
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Alexander I. Filkov, Thomas J. Duff and Trent D. Penman
Organisations that manage wildfires are expected to deliver scientifically defensible decisions. However, the limited availability of high quality data restricts the rate at which research can advance. The nature of wildfires contributes to this: they ar...
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Crystal A. Kolden, Tyler M. Bleeker, Alistair M. S. Smith, Helen M. Poulos and Ann E. Camp
Wildfire refugia are forest patches that are minimally-impacted by fire and provide critical habitats for fire-sensitive species and seed sources for post-fire forest regeneration. Wildfire refugia are relatively understudied, particularly concerning the...
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Aurélie Terrier, Mathieu Paquette, Sylvie Gauthier, Martin P. Girardin, Sylvain Pelletier-Bergeron and Yves Bergeron
Old-growth forests play a decisive role in preserving biodiversity and ecological functions. In an environment frequently disturbed by fire, the importance of old-growth forests as both a carbon stock as well as a source of emissions when burnt is not fu...
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Mario Elia, Raffaella Lovreglio, Nicola A. Ranieri, Giovanni Sanesi and Raffaele Lafortezza
One of the most important environmental issues in Europe is the expansion of wildland-urban interfaces (WUIs) and how this trend may affect the occurrence of wildfires. Land use changes, the abandonment of farmland, and reduced grazing has led to an incr...
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Jesús Barreal,Maria L. Loureiro
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Aim of study: The goal of this paper is to analyse the importance of the main contributing factors to the occurrence of wildfires. Area of study: We employ data from the region of Galicia during 2001-2010; although the similarities shared between this ar...
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Xochitl Cruz Núñez,Lourdes Villers Ruiz,Carlos Gay García
In Mexico, approximately 7,650 wildfires occur annually, affecting 263,115 hectares of land. In addition to their impact on land degradation, wildfires cause deforestation, damage to ecosystems and promote land use change; apart from being the source of ...
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J. Balsa Barreiro,T. Hermosilla
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Aim of study: To propose a methodology to establish motivations underlying wildland fire episodes by analyzing both the socioeconomics of the affected territory and the geographical distribution of the wildfire.Area of study: The wildfires occurred durin...
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Thomas J. Cova, Philip E. Dennison and Frank A. Drews
Improving community resiliency to wildfire is a challenging problem in the face of ongoing development in fire-prone regions. Evacuation and shelter-in-place are the primary options for reducing wildfire casualties, but it can be difficult to determine w...
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Nathalia Celis, Alejandro Casallas, Ellie Anne Lopez-Barrera, Martina Felician, Massimo De Marchi and Salvatore E. Pappalardo
Recent times have witnessed wildfires causing harm to both ecological communities and urban?rural regions, underscoring the necessity to comprehend wildfire triggers and assess measures for mitigation. This research hones in on Cartagena del Chairá, divi...
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Hélder D. Craveiro, Cesare Fiorini, Luís Laím, Bruno Guillaume and Aldina Santiago
Contributing to the development of an innovative performance-based design approach for enhancing the safety and resilience of the built environment in the wildland?urban interface (WUI).
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Francisco Balocchi, Diego Rivera, José Luis Arumi, Uwe Morgenstern, Donald A. White, Richard P. Silberstein and Pablo Ramírez de Arellano
Wildfires are an important disturbance affecting catchments? soil and hydrological processes within. Wildfires are predicted to increase in both frequency and severity under climate change. Here, we present measurements of tritium (3H) in surface water o...
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Alfred de Jager, Christina Corbane and Filip Szabo
The droughts that hit North and North Western Europe in 2018 and 2019 served as a wake-up call that temperate regions are also affected by these kinds of slow progressing or creeping disasters. Long-term drivers, such as land-use changes, may have exacer...
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Pavel ?pulák
The following article deals with more than 20 years of historical wildland fire data from the Czech Republic, logged in the databases of the operational centers of the Fire and Rescue Service of the Czech Republic (FRS of CR). First, the definition of th...
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Yao-Hua Ho and Yu-Jung Tsai
Climate-related natural disasters have affected the lives of thousands of people. Global warming creates warmer and drier conditions which increase the risk of wildfires. In large-scale disasters such as wildfires, search and rescue (SAR) operations beco...
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