Session: Extreme Wildfires in 2018 I (AGU Fall Meeting 2018)

NH44A:
Extreme Wildfires in 2018 I

Session ID#: 63837

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:

Wild fire and climate conditions in Europe during 2018 (Invited) (474015)

Johannes W. Kaiser^1,2, Mark Parrington³, Imke Hueser¹, Inderpreet Kaur¹, Florian Imbery², Uwe Pfeifroth⁴, Rainer Hollmann² and Martin Werscheck², (1)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (2)Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany, (3)European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, (4)Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Offenbach am Main, Germany

The Southern California Extreme Wildfire Season of 2017-18 and the Threats of Post-Fire Debris Flows that Followed: Environmental Factors and the Support Provided by NOAA’s National Weather Service to Help Mitigate Impacts to Communities (Invited) (472595)

Mark E Jackson, NOAA Oxnard, Oxnard, CA, United States