Forecasting distributions of large federal-lands fires utilizing satellite and gridded weather information
International Journal of Wildland Fire
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Abstract
The current study presents a statistical model for assessing the skill of fire danger indices and for forecasting the distribution of the expected numbers of large fires over a given region and for the upcoming week. The procedure permits development of daily maps that forecast, for the forthcoming week and within federal lands, percentiles of the distributions of (i) number of ignitions; (ii) number of fires above a given size; (iii) conditional probabilities of fires greater than a specified size, given ignition. As an illustration, we used the methods to study the skill of the Fire Potential Index an index that incorporates satellite and surface observations to map fire potential at a national scale in forecasting distributions of large fires. ?? 2009 IAWF.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Forecasting distributions of large federal-lands fires utilizing satellite and gridded weather information |
| Series title | International Journal of Wildland Fire |
| DOI | 10.1071/WF08032 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Year Published | 2009 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | CSIRO |
| Contributing office(s) | Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center |
| Description | 9 p. |
| First page | 508 |
| Last page | 516 |
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