we analysed the burned area and soil moisture inside and outside of protected areas. We used the peatland distribution map from the World Resources Institute to determine peatland
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed his country will continue to support the efforts to save the Amazon. He said Canada is offering tosend $15 million and "water bombers"to help fight the fires, the CBC reported Aug. 26. In late August, the G7 Summit -- an annual meeting ...
The forest fire hazard is high in the western portions of the region and low to moderate in the eastern portions of the region. Rain is in the forecast tomorrow for the southern half of the region. Ontario has increased the maximum fines for individuals and corporations for starting forest ...
In the fire behavior forecast, the wind is the most important indicator to determine the fire spread speed, fire intensity and the size of the fire field expansion area. Generally speaking, if the wind speed is greater than 2.2 m/s, the forest fire spread speed is 1.5 times the wind ...
and Canada, 98.5% of the forest fires that have occurred in Korea have been small-scale fires, most of which burned less than 10 ha [18]. Correspondingly, smoke transport from most of these fires appeared to occur over less than 50 km along the downwind distance according to satellite ...
We used a 250 m resolution map of the United States forest types [54] (https://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/rastergateway/forest_type/ (accessed on 10 June 2022)) to investigate the Lightning Ignition Efficiency (LIE; i.e., the number of fires ignited per lightning) in the main forest ...