We analyze a multi-year record of aerosol smoke plume heights derived from observations over North America made by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument on board the NASA Earth Observing System Terra satellite. We characterize the magnitude and variability of smoke plume heights for various biomes, and assess the contribution of local atmospheric and fire conditions to thi...

1. introduction extensive fires in the forests are examples of natural crises (hosseinali, 2005) and forest fire events are increasing in the conditions of changing climate and global warming; (azizi and yousefi, 2005). this phenomenon is considered one of the most destructive factors for forest ecosystems, causing irreparable damages (marozas et al, 2007). some of these damages include land us...

Fire is an integral Earth System process that interacts with climate in multiple ways. Here we assessed the parametrization of fires in the Community Land Model (CLM-CN) and improved the ability of the model to reproduce contemporary global patterns of burned areas and fire emissions. In addition to wildfires we extended CLMCN to account for fires related to deforestation. We compared contempor...

temporal and spatial variations of fire behavior can be predicted using one of the semi-physical or empirical models developed over recent years. this article investigates the effect of different fuel moisture conditions on fire spread and behavior in national golestan park in july 2011 using farsite, flammap simulation systems, and previous ignition history. landscape data contains the topogra...

Background: Fire and explosion hazards are extremely important in processing units. This study was performed to identify the risk centers, the potential damage caused by fire and explosion, and the days of production cessation in the processing company. Materials and Methods: The present qualitative case study was conducted using Dow’s index in 2015. The fire and explosion hazard index...

Abstract Fire has always been an important component of many ecosystems, but anthropogenic global climate change is now altering fire regimes over much Earth's land surface, spurring a more urgent need to understand the physical, biological, and chemical processes associated with as well its effects on human societies. In 2020, AGU launched Special Collection that spanned 10 journals, solicitin...