GC32B:
The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land and Atmosphere Toward Improved Fire Management II

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Yufang Jin, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Guido van der Werf, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Sara McAllister, Rocky Mountain Research Station Missoula, Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, MT, United States
Primary Conveners:  Michael G Tosca Jr, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Yufang Jin, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Sander Veraverbeke, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States and Caroline Lehmann, University of Edinburgh, School of GeoScienes, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaisons:  Yufang Jin, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
GC32B-01
 
Wildfire Risk Management: Challenges and Opportunities
Matthew Thompson1, David E Calkin1, Michael S Hand1 and Jason Kreitler2, (1)USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT, United States, (2)USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States
10:35 AM
GC32B-02
 
An Emerging Role for Numerical Modelling in Wildfire Behavior Research: Explorations, Explanations, and Hypothesis Development
Rodman Linn1, Judith Winterkamp1, Jesse Canfield1, Jeremy Sauer1, Jean Luc Dupuy2, Mark Finney3, Chad Hoffman4, Russell Parsons3, Francois Pimont2, Carolyn Sieg5 and Jason Forthofer6, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Institut National pour la Recherche Agronomique, Avignon, France, (3)US Forest Service Missoula, Missoula, MT, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Forest and Rangeland Stewardship Program, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)US Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (6)Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, MT, United States
10:50 AM
GC32B-03
 
Forest Management and the Evolution of Project Design in Dynamic Wildland Urban Interface Fire Environments
Scott Conway, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States
11:05 AM
GC32B-04
 
Analyses of fire growth and behavior using new VIIRS 375 m active fire data and a coupled weather-fire model (CAWFE)
Wilfrid Schroeder1, Janice Coen2 and Patricia Oliva1, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
11:20 AM
GC32B-05
 
Global Perspectives on Peat Fires
Adam Watts, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Merritt R Turetsky, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, Brian Benscoter, Florida Atlantic University, Davie, FL, United States, Susan E Page, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, Guillermo Rein, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom and Guido van der Werf, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
11:35 AM
GC32B-06
 
Drivers of Recent Trends in African Landscape Fires
Niels Andela and Guido van der Werf, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
11:50 AM
GC32B-07
 
Fuel for the Fire: Improved Understanding of Fire Behavior in Africa Based on Partitioned Herbaceous and Woody LAI from MODIS Satellite Data
Milkah NJOKI Kahiu and Niall P Hanan, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States
12:05 PM
GC32B-08
 
Predicting the Spatial Variability of Fuel Moisture Content in Mountainous Eucalyptus Forests
Gary J Sheridan1, Petter Nyman1, Patrick N J Lane2 and Daniel Metzen2, (1)University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, (2)University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
 
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