Essays about: "Fire Weather Index"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Fire Weather Index.

1. 1. Where there is road, there is fire (influence): An exploratory study on the influence of roads in the spatial patterns of Swedish wildfires of 2018

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

   Author : Gabriel Romeo Ferriols Pavico; [2023]
   Keywords : Geography; GIS; Wildfire; Fire Spatial Patterns; Road; Conformity; FWI; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : This study focuses on the Swedish wildfire season of 2018, when the country incurred ten times more than the average burnt area that occurred in previous years. The study aims to address a broad research question: Do roads influence the size of the burned area? This study fills the gap in research on the effects of roads in the spatial patterns of wildfires. READ MORE

3. 2. Exploring the factors affecting tree establishment after wildfire in a boreal forest in Sweden

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning

   Author : Robert Pim; [2023]
   Keywords : tree regeneration; tree establishment; wildfire; boreal forests; disturbance; sapling regeneration; generalized linear mixed models;

   Abstract : The factors affecting tree establishment in boreal forests after fire will help determine the community composition of the regenerating forest. These may have large consequences on the community dynamics for years after the fire disturbance. READ MORE

4. 3. In the Line of Fire: A Study of Market Efficiency in the Context of Wildfires and Stock Market Reactions

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

   Author : Isak Kristoffersson; Markus Lind; [2023]
   Keywords : Climate Disaster Events; Wildfires; Fire Weather Index; Fire Severity Rating; Efficient Market Hypothesis;

   Abstract : Climate research finds that climate change and raising global temperatures increase the risk and severity of wildfires. However, the impact varies substantially based on geographical location and causes a dispersion in wildfire trends. READ MORE

5. 4. The influence of climate, population density, tree species and land cover on fire pattern in mainland Portugal

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

   Author : Luis Gomes; [2022]
   Keywords : GIS; forest fires; burnt Area; characteristic fire size; spatial analysis; mainland Portugal; FWI; Eucalyptus globulus; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : Forest fires in mainland Portugal are becoming more extreme, resulting in increasingly larger burnt areas and tragic human fatalities, as was shown by the 2017 fires. Research shows that there are many natural factors contributing to such fire vulnerability conditions, such as climate, fuel continuity, forest structure, tree species types, amongst others, that are intertwined with anthropic factors than can intensity the fire vulnerability. READ MORE

6. 5. Consumption of the organic layer in southern Sweden during fire events and correlations with the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) risk ratings

   University essay from SLU/Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre

   Author : Blake Mccallum Jordan; [2013]
   Keywords : fire; organic layer consumption; Canadian Fire Weather Index FWI ; ; Sweden;

   Abstract : The occurrence and thickness of organic layers in forests can significantly influence fire behavior. Complete understanding of the consumption of these layers during fire events is a knowledge gap that exists in southern Sweden. In this region, sixteen burned sites were measured for fermentation and humus layer thickness. READ MORE