Session: Impacts of Climate and Climate Change on Wildfire (Joint Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology/Interior West Fire Council Conference)

Thursday, 27 October 2005: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Ladyslipper (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

Chair:

Beth L. Hall, DRI, Climate, Ecosystem and Fire Applications, Reno, NV

Papers:

10:30 AM

6.1

Fire-climate interactions in the Mediterranean climate areas of California and Southern Oregon

Valerie M. L. Trouet, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and A. H. Taylor, R. F. Smith, and A. M. Carleton

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

6.2

Spatial Relationships between SST and U.S. Wildfires

Yongqiang Liu, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (473.2 kB)

11:00 AM

6.3

Simulating changes in fire occurrence, behavior, and effects in North America ecosystems under multiple future climate scenarios

James M. Lenihan, USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, OR; and D. Bachelet, R. Drapek, and R. P. Neilson

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

6.4

Potential forest fire danger over Northern Eurasia: Changes during the 20th century

Pavel Ya. Groisman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and B. G. Sherstyukov, V. N. Razuvaev, R. W. Knight, J. G. Enloe, N. S. Stroumentova, P. H. Whitfield, E. Foerland, I. Hanssen-Bauer, H. Tuomenvirta, H. Aleksandersson, A. V. Mescherskaya, and T. R. Karl

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (1.2 MB)

11:30 AM

6.5

Fire climates of Australia: Past, present and future

Chris Lucas, BMRC, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (333.0 kB)

11:45 AM

6.6

Climate, fire and human extremes—the merging of shaping factors for 21st century land management

Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, Nevada; and J. R. McConnell