International Journal of Wildland Fire update

             

The feature paper within this issue (Vol. 18, No. 4) is by Andrew Sullivan with CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship, Canberra, Australia. This series of articles attempts to comprehensively survey and summarize all types of surface fire spread models developed during 1990-2007, providing a useful starting point for readers interested in recent modeling activities. The first paper surveys models of a physical or quasi-physical nature. These models are based on the fundamental chemistry and physics, or physics alone, of combustion and fire spread. Following papers in the series review models of an empirical or quasi-empirical nature, as well as mathematical analogs and simulation models.

• Wildland surface fire spread modeling, 1990-2007. 1: Physical and quasi-physical models by Andrew L. Sullivan.

• Wildland surface fire spread modeling, 1990-2007. 2: Empirical and quasi-empirical models by Andrew L. Sullivan.

• Wildland surface fire spread modeling, 1990-2007. 3: Simulation and mathematical analog models by Andrew L. Sullivan.

• Integration of AWiFS and MODIS active fire data for burn-mapping at regional level using the Burned Area Synergic Algorithm (BASA) by Federico González-Alonso and Silvia Merino-de-Miguel.

• Rapid locating of fire points from Formosat-2 high spatial resolution imagery: Example of the 2007 California wildfire by Cheng-Chien Liu, An-MingWu, Sheng-YunYen and Chiung-Huei Huang.

• Fuel characterization in the southern Appalachian Mountains: An application of landscape ecosystem classification by Aaron D. Stottlemyer, Victor B. Shelburne, Thomas A.Waldrop, Sandra Rideout-Hanzak and William C. Bridges.

• Prediction of fire occurrence from live-fuel moisture content measurements in a Mediterranean ecosystem by Emilio Chuvieco, Isabel González, FelipeVerdú, Inmaculada Aguado and MartaYebra.

• Traditional fire management: Historical fire regimes and land-use change in pastoral East Africa by Ramona J. Butz.

• Short-term impact of post-fire salvage logging on regeneration, hazardous fuel accumulation, and understory development in ponderosa pine forests of the Black Hills, South Dakota, by Tara L. Keyser, Frederick W. Smith and Wayne D. Shepper.

• Natural variability of the Keetch-Byram Drought Index in the Hawaiian Islands by Klaus Dolling, Pao-Shin Chu and Francis Fujioka.

• Florida wildfire activity and atmospheric teleconnections by Scott L. Goodrick and Deborah E. Hanley.