A review of machine learning applications in wildfire science and management

P Jain, SCP Coogan, SG Subramanian… - Environmental …, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
Artificial intelligence has been applied in wildfire science and management since the 1990s,
with early applications including neural networks and expert systems. Since then, the field …

Changing wildfire, changing forests: the effects of climate change on fire regimes and vegetation in the Pacific Northwest, USA

JE Halofsky, DL Peterson, BJ Harvey - Fire Ecology, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background Wildfires in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and
western Montana, USA) have been immense in recent years, capturing the attention of …

The 2019/2020 mega-fires exposed Australian ecosystems to an unprecedented extent of high-severity fire

L Collins, RA Bradstock, H Clarke… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Extreme fire seasons characterised by very large'mega-fires' have demonstrably increased
area burnt across forested regions globally. However, the effect of extreme fire seasons on …

Climate influences on future fire severity: a synthesis of climate-fire interactions and impacts on fire regimes, high-severity fire, and forests in the western United States

TN Wasserman, SE Mueller - Fire Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Background Increases in fire activity and changes in fire regimes have been documented in
recent decades across the western United States. Climate change is expected to continue to …

Wildfire and climate change adaptation of western North American forests: a case for intentional management

PF Hessburg, SJ Prichard, RK Hagmann… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Forest landscapes across western North America (wNA) have experienced extensive
changes over the last two centuries, while climatic warming has become a global reality over …

Five decades of observed daily precipitation reveal longer and more variable drought events across much of the western United States

F Zhang, JA Biederman… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Multiple lines of evidence suggest climate change will result in increased precipitation
variability and consequently more frequent extreme events. These hydroclimatic changes …

Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes

T Schoennagel, JK Balch, H Brenkert-Smith… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - pnas.org
Wildfires across western North America have increased in number and size over the past
three decades, and this trend will continue in response to further warming. As a …

[HTML][HTML] Defining extreme wildfire events: Difficulties, challenges, and impacts

F Tedim, V Leone, M Amraoui, C Bouillon… - Fire, 2018 - mdpi.com
Every year worldwide some extraordinary wildfires occur, overwhelming suppression
capabilities, causing substantial damages, and often resulting in fatalities. Given their …

TerraClimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958–2015

JT Abatzoglou, SZ Dobrowski, SA Parks… - Scientific data, 2018 - nature.com
We present TerraClimate, a dataset of high-spatial resolution (1/24,~ 4-km) monthly climate
and climatic water balance for global terrestrial surfaces from 1958–2015. TerraClimate …

Pyrosilviculture needed for landscape resilience of dry western United States forests

MP North, RA York, BM Collins, MD Hurteau… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
A significant increase in treatment pace and scale is needed to restore dry western US forest
resilience owing to increasingly frequent and severe wildfire and drought. We propose a …