Session 1 |
| | Impacts of Weather on Wildfire |
| | Chair: Randall P. Benson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD
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| 1:30 PM | 1.1 | Impacts of weather and growing season on the occurrence of fires in Finland  
Heidi Tanskanen, Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; and A. Venäläinen |
| 1:45 PM | 1.2 | Lower atmospheric drying, stability, and increased wildfire activity
Graham A. Mills, BMRC, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| 2:00 PM | 1.3 | Precipitation associated with lightning ignited wildfires in Arizona and New Mexico
Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV |
| 2:15 PM | 1.4 | Temporal and spatial characteristics of anomalous precipitation regimes on vegetation type and fire regime condition class
Ryan S. Kangas, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown, B. L. Hall, and H. J. Reinbold |
| 2:30 PM | 1.5 | Alaska's exceptional 2004 fire season
Martha Shulski, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and S. Alden, N. K. Larkin, and G. Wendler |
| 2:45 PM | 1.6 | Alaska large forest fires in 2004 and weather—Discussion based on satellite and weather data
Hiroshi Hayasaka, Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan; and K. Nakau, K. Kushida, M. Fukuda, P. Martyn, and T. DeFries |