NH23C:
Extreme Wildfires in 2018 II Posters


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Session ID#: 62761

Session Description:
Wildfires worldwide have reached historic proportions. In 2018, California has suffered more than 5,500 fires scorching over one million acres. The Mendocino Complex Fire has burned in excess of 389,000 acres, the largest complex fire in the history of California. The 2018 wildfire season involves numerous extreme fires on multiple continents, including north of the Arctic Circle.  These fires cause loss of lives, millions of dollars in property destructions, and severe threat to human health.  They also require enormous resources to fight and control.  It is timely to examine the 2018 fire season in earnest. This late breaking session invites contributions (oral and poster) that address the drivers, observations, impacts and recovery processes of the 2018 wildfires. The session will include a Panel Discussion on the “Climate Change and Wild Forest Fires: Is there any way to minimize Forest Fires?”
Primary Convener:  Ramesh P Singh, Chapman University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Orange, CA, United States
Conveners:  Ben Kravitz, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States and Son V Nghiem, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ramesh P Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, School of Engineering, Mandi, India
Chairs:  Ramesh P Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, School of Engineering, Mandi, India and Son V Nghiem, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Ramesh P Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, School of Engineering, Mandi, India
Co-Organized with:
Natural Hazards, and Global Environmental Change

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4322 Health impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4337 Remote sensing and disasters [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

PM2.5 Source Apportionment Analysis for the 2018 Large Fire Events in California (473329)
Yufei Zou, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, Susan O'Neill, US Forest Service, Seattle, WA, United States, Narasimhan K Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA, United States, Ernesto Alvarado, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Seattle, United States, Robert C Solomon, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and Timothy J Brown, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States
Post-Wildfire Decision Support with NASA RECOVER (473762)
Mark Carroll1, Keith Weber2, John L Schnase3 and Roger L. Gill1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Data Science Group, Greenbelt, United States, (2)Idaho State University, Idaho Falls, ID, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Near-Real Time Population Movement during an Emergency: A Case Study on the Mendocino Complex Fire with Disaster Maps by Facebook (473475)
Jia Shenyue1, Seung Hee Kim2, Son V Nghiem3 and Menas Kafatos2, (1)Chapman University, Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing, Orange, CA, United States, (2)Chapman University, Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing (ECHO), Orange, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
A Value of Information impact assessment: The cost effectiveness of using Burn Area Reflectance Classification Maps for wildfire mitigation decisions in a Burn Area Emergency Response protocol (473414)
Richard Bernknopf1, Yusuke Kuwayama2, Thomas J Clifford3, Brad Quayle4, Terry Hardy5, Justin Epting6, Reily Gibson2 and David C Goodrich7, (1)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Resources for the Future, Washington, United States, (3)BLM, Boise, ID, United States, (4)USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States, (5)U.S. Forest Service, Boise, United States, (6)U.S. Forest Service, Salt Lake City, United States, (7)USDA-ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, United States
Retrieving Fire Perimeters and Ignition Points of Large Wildfires from Satellite Observations (473585)
Jan Mandel1, Adam Kochanski2, Evan A Ellicott, PhD3, James Haley4, Angel Farguell1, Lauren Hearn4 and Kyle Hilburn5, (1)University of Colorado Denver, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Denver, United States, (2)University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (4)University of Colorado Denver, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Denver, CO, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, United States
Use Cutting-Edge, Dynamic, Cloud-Based Technology and Analytics to Fight Extreme Wildfires (473484)
Michael Ann Lane, Longmont, CO, United States
Extent and characteristics of damage from wildfires caused by incendiary kites during protests of the Gaza-Israel barrier fence (March 2018 to present) (470258)
Corey Scher, City University of New York Graduate Center, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, United States and David Saah, University of San Francisco, Environmental Science, San Francisco, CA, United States

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