International Journal of Wildland Fire
Volume 27 Number 2 2018
This paper reviews firefighters’ sleep during wildfire operations, the operational and environmental factors that impact on sleep, and how sleep affects health and safety. For fire agencies to support firefighting personnel, strategies are needed to improve and manage firefighters’ sleep, and reduce any adverse impacts on firefighters’ work.
Firefighters are occasionally entrapped by wildfires. This paper presents an analysis of incidents in Australia over the last 40 years, and reveals the main contributing factors to those entrapments. The effect of a wind change on fire spread direction was found to be the principal cause of fatal fire entrapments.
WF17030A comparison of the US National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) with recorded fire occurrence and final fire size
An analysis of the National Fire Danger Rating System for the conterminous US (2006–13). Fire danger indices are correlated with measures of fire activity in order to identify spatial patterns and discrepancies across the US and identify different aspects of wildfire activity along several fire danger spectrums.
This study provides information on how post-fire surface fuel loadings change within the first 9 years after forest wildfires in dry conifer and hardwood forests of California. Differences in post-fire surface fuel dynamics among fire severity classes – low, moderate and high – are identified.
WF17095Soil organic layer combustion in boreal black spruce and jack pine stands of the Northwest Territories, Canada
In this study, we assess soil organic layer (SOL) combustion in the Taiga Plains and Taiga Shield ecozones of the Northwest Territories, Canada, within the unprecedentedly large area burned by fires in 2014. We provide models and calibrations that should allow future research to more accurately estimate SOL burn depth in black spruce and jack pine boreal forests.
WF17107A method for extensive spatiotemporal assessment of soil temperatures during an experimental fire using distributed temperature sensing in optical fibre
This proof-of-concept experiment uses distributed temperature sensing (DTS) to measure soil temperatures during a managed fire. Using off-the-shelf 242-μm diameter fibre, we were able to collect temperature data every 20 s over a 5.5-h period at 1243 locations along 316 m length of fibre with a spatial resolution of 60 cm.
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WF17049An analysis of the effect of aspect and vegetation type on fine fuel moisture content in eucalypt forest
The effect of aspect and vegetation structure on the fine fuel moisture content of different fuel strata was investigated. The effect of the percentage of fuel available for burning and when top litter moisture content fell into categories associated with severe fire behaviour and fire management planning was further discussed.
These articles have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication. They are still in production and have not been edited, so may differ from the final published form.
The effect of woody fuel characteristics on fuel ignition and consumption: A case study from a eucalypt forest in south-west Western Australia
Where wildfires destroy buildings in the US relative to the wildland-urban interface and national fire outreach programs
Development and validation of a model for predicting fire behaviour in spinifex grasslands of arid Australia
Automated location of active fire perimeters in aerial infrared imaging using unsupervised edge detectors
Use of ordinary kriging and Gaussian conditional simulation to interpolate airborne fire radiative energy density estimates
Estimating the Area Burned by Agricultural Fires from Landsat 8 Data using the Vegetation Difference Index and Burn Scar Index
Interpolation framework to speed up near-surface wind simulations for data-driven wildfire applications
An analysis of Southeastern U.S. prescribed burn weather windows: Seasonal variability and El Niño associations
An analysis of the effect of aspect and vegetation type on fine fuel moisture content in eucalypt forest
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International Journal of Wildland Fire 27 (1)Lynn M. Johnston, Mike D. Flannigan
International Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (12)Michael Eburn, Geoffrey J. Cary
International Journal of Wildland Fire 27 (2)Grace E. Vincent, Brad Aisbett, Alexander Wolkow, Sarah M. Jay, Nicola D. Ridgers, Sally A. Ferguson
International Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (12)Sergi Costafreda-Aumedes, Carles Comas, Cristina Vega-Garcia
Simulating the effectiveness of prescribed burning at altering wildfire behaviour in Tasmania, AustraliaInternational Journal of Wildland Fire 27 (1)James M. Furlaud, Grant J. Williamson, David M. J. S. Bowman
International Journal of Wildland Fire 27 (2)Sebastien Lahaye, Jason Sharples, Stuart Matthews, Simon Heemstra, Owen Price, Rachel Badlan
A comparison of the US National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) with recorded fire occurrence and final fire sizeInternational Journal of Wildland Fire 27 (2)Nicholas G. Walding, Hywel T. P. Williams, Scott McGarvie, Claire M. Belcher
Understanding forest fire patterns and risk in Nepal using remote sensing, geographic information system and historical fire dataInternational Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (4)Mir A. Matin, Vishwas Sudhir Chitale, Manchiraju S. R. Murthy, Kabir Uddin, Birendra Bajracharya, Sudip Pradhan
An empirically based approach to defining wildland firefighter safety and survival zone separation distancesInternational Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (8)Wesley G. Page, Bret W. Butler
International Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (11)Xinyan Huang, Guillermo Rein
International Journal of Wildland Fire 27 (1)J. R. Raposo, D. X. Viegas, X. Xie, M. Almeida, A. R. Figueiredo, L. Porto, J. Sharples
International Journal of Wildland Fire 27 (1)A. Lamorlette, M. El Houssami, D. Morvan
International Journal of Wildland Fire 27 (2)Bianca N. I. Eskelson, Vicente J. Monleon
Public information seeking, place-based risk messaging and wildfire preparedness in southern CaliforniaInternational Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (6)Anne-Lise K. Velez, John M. Diaz, Tamara U. Wall
International Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (7)Matthew P. Thompson, Francisco Rodríguez y Silva, David E. Calkin, Michael S. Hand
Indicators of burn severity at extended temporal scales: a decade of ecosystem response in mixed-conifer forests of western MontanaInternational Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (9)Sarah A. Lewis, Andrew T. Hudak, Peter R. Robichaud, Penelope Morgan, Kevin L. Satterberg, Eva K. Strand, Alistair M. S. Smith, Joseph A. Zamudio, Leigh B. Lentile
Trend analysis of fire season length and extreme fire weather in North America between 1979 and 2015International Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (12)Piyush Jain, Xianli Wang, Mike D. Flannigan
Air quality policy and fire management responses addressing smoke from wildland fires in the United States and AustraliaInternational Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (5)Joshua C. Hyde, Kara M. Yedinak, Alan F. Talhelm, Alistair M. S. Smith, David M. J. S. Bowman, Fay H. Johnston, Peter Lahm, Mark Fitch, Wade T. Tinkham
International Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (11)Miguel G. Cruz, Martin E. Alexander, Andrew L. Sullivan
International Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (10)İsmail Bekar, Çağatay Tavşanoğlu