- Conduct Wildfire Simulations
- Open Source Materials
- Pilot Upper-Air Profiler
- Climate Change
- Climate Change Projection Application
- Open Source Materials
Deliver new insights into forest fuels and how they burn—to more accurately forecast fire behavior
Current fire behavior models make predictions based on conditions that no longer exist
Map fuels and deliver insight into the physics of wildfire, to improve fire behavior forecasting
We developed guidance for a protocol for sampling forest fuels and integrating them into a thematic map.
We’re analyzing fuels over a 20-year cycle in areas of elevated tree mortality. Additionally, we are mapping fuels—using satellite imagery and aerial LiDAR, combined with field measurements—to characterize vegetation types and the amount, size, depth, and nature of fuels in granular detail.
The small-scale burn chamber experiments will determine what speed of wind and level of moisture are necessary to allow transition from smoldering to flaming combustion.
The first-of-its-kind large-scale burn chamber will replicate the fuel beds in California’s forests; these fuels will be burned while controlling wind and moisture levels.
Methodology will show how to sample forest fuels and integrate these samples into a thematic map
Report will evaluate increased fire risk from elevated tree mortality and surface fuel buildup over 20 years
Map will show current distribution of tree mortality across California
Report will make recommendations for improving the weather station network, and evaluate costs of new installations
Methodology on how to sample forest fuels and integrate these samples into a thematic map
Summary report evaluates impacts on fire risk of elevated tree mortality and surface fuel buildup over 20 years
Map shows current distribution of tree mortality across California
Report will make recommendations for improving the weather station network, and evaluate costs of new installations
Methodology on how to sample forest fuels and integrate these samples into a thematic map
Summary report evaluates impacts on fire risk of elevated tree mortality and surface fuel buildup over 20 years
Map shows current distribution of tree mortality across California
Report will make recommendations for improving the weather station network, and evaluate costs of new installations