In the midst of a severe heatwave and following months of dry weather, Turkey is facing some of its worst wildfires in years. Over the past seven days, more than 130 wildfires have been reported across 30 Turkish provinces. Most of the fires have ignited along the Mediterranean and Aegean S...
The map of managed lands74was accessed through personal communication with M. Hafer and A. Dyk (the map was only created for cartographic communication purposes). The extent of land considered managed forest in Canada for the purposes of GHG reporting to the United Nations Framework Convention on...
The soils in these regions are mostly classified as Typic Mesisols (32 sites), Orthic Gleysols (16 sites), or Orthic Grey Luvisols (8 sites) (Soil Landscapes of Canada map v.3.2). The sampled sites span a wide range of soil properties, with pH values ranging from 3.2 (wetlands) to...
Yarnell Hill Fire Map - This map shows the destroyed acreage due to the Yarnell Hill Fire. This relatively small fire cost millions of dollars in damages to the Arizona Government and took the lives of 19 experienced wildfire firefighters. This small area represents the large costs associated wit...
Wildfires, producing lots of smoke seen obviously from space, are spreading in Sibetia.Greenland, Alaska, and Canada as a result of lightning and high temperatures. Although Arctic fires are common between May and October, the long time and large rang-involved make these fires unusual.Unfortunate...
The North American component of the boreal forest fires (Canada and Alaska) represents 4 to 122 Gg C yr-1 of BC and 0.07 to 2.4 Tg yr-1 of POM emitted, whereas the Eurasiatic component (Russia and northern Mongolia) may vary in the 16 to 474 Gg C yr-1 range for BC and between ...
Using the map module to display similar information can allow users to visualize behavior in a graphical format and see how responses track in relation to the spatial distribution of smoke and air quality impacts. Finally, the ability to view your own data and how you respond to various ...
“lightning siege” over the past ten days has resulted in over 13,000 lightning strikes, many of which were from high-based thunderstorms that did not provide much rain to the surface (rain evaporated on the way down!).How unusual was this large number of lightning strikes in mid-August?
(D) The smoke plume from Carr Fire on August 9th, 2018 drifting down across the location of Castle Lake. Castle Lake on the 3rd of July 2018 without smoke (E), and on the 9th of August 2018 with smoke (F). Area burned polygons where obtained from MTBS73. Map was generated in ...
and the organizational collaboration map is shown in Fig.4b. The results of the study indicate that forest wildfire research is characterized by a large scale and wide scope, involving more than 100 countries and more than 2342 research institutions. At the national scale, the countries with the...