Deforestation and drainage has made Indonesian peatlands susceptible to burning. Large fires occur regularly, destroying agricultural crops and forest, emitting large amounts of CO2and air pollutants, resulting in adverse health effects. In order to reduce fire, the Indonesian government has committed t...
In late August, the G7 Summit -- an annual meeting of the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US --agreed on the aid package, according to The Hill on Aug. 26. Brazil's president originally hadaccepted the aidand tweeted that Brazil iscommitted to ...
In addition, a brief overview of the commonly used Rothermel mathematical–physical model and the improved ellipse mathematical model is given, which provides a basis for the improvement of the forest fires spread model in Heilongjiang Province. Keywords: forest fires spread; fire behavior forecast; ...
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 ...
In Korea, no integrated smoke dispersion prediction system yet exists to assist in smoke management. Compared to the large-scale forest fires that have occurred across the globe, such as in the U.S. and Canada, 98.5% of the forest fires that have occurred in Korea have been small-scale fi...