Session 4 Climate

Tuesday, 18 October 2011: 3:30 PM-5:15 PM
Grand Zoso Ballroom Center (Hotel Zoso)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology
Chair:
Narasimhan K. ("Sim") Larkin, USDA Forest Service, AirFIRE Team, Seattle, WA

Papers:
3:30 PM
4.1
Towards a processed-based understanding of climate-fire relationships of the western United States
John T. Abatzoglou, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; and C. A. Kolden, T. J. Brown, and K. L. Riley
3:45 PM
4.2
Projections of future meteorological forest fire danger in the European Alps
Clemens Wastl, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany; and C. Schunk and A. Menzel
4:00 PM
4.3
Climate change and fire danger rating in the Northern Rocky Mountains and Eastern Great Basin
Faith Ann Heinsch, U.S. Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and C. McHugh, L. S. Baggett, and L. S. Bradshaw
4:15 PM
4.4
Future U.S. Wildfire Potential Trends Projected using Dynamically Downscaled Climate Change Scenarios
Yongqiang Liu, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and S. L. Goodrick and J. A. Stanturf

4:30 PM
4.5
Summertime rainfall events in eastern Oregon and Washington
Narasimhan K. Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and N. A. Bond, A. M. Chiodi, and J. Barbour

4:45 PM
4.6
The fallacy of area burned: Climate impacts on unburned area within fire perimeters
Crystal A. Kolden, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; and J. Lutz, C. H. Key, J. V. W. van Wagtendonk, and J. Kane
5:00 PM
4.7
Climate and Megafires
Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, Nevada; and J. T. Abatzoglou and N. Nauslar
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