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Weather Research and Forecasting—Fire Simulated Burned Area and Propagation Direction Sensitivity to Initiation Point Location and Time

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dc.creator DeCastro, Amy
dc.creator Siems-Anderson, Amanda
dc.creator Smith, Ebone
dc.creator Knievel, Jason C.
dc.creator Kosović, Branko
dc.creator Brown, Barbara G.
dc.creator Balch, Jennifer K.
dc.date 2022-05-13T12:21:15Z
dc.date 2022-05-13T12:21:15Z
dc.date 2022-04-28
dc.date 2022-05-12T19:35:52Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:53:22Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:53:22Z
dc.identifier DeCastro, A.; Siems-Anderson, A.; Smith, E.; Knievel, J.C.; Kosović, B.; Brown, B.G.; Balch, J.K. Weather Research and Forecasting—Fire Simulated Burned Area and Propagation Direction Sensitivity to Initiation Point Location and Time. Fire 2022, 5, 58.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10919/110079
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.3390/fire5030058
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/281718
dc.description Wildland fire behavior models are often initiated using the detection information listed in incident reports. This information carries an unknown amount of uncertainty, though it is often the most readily available ignition data. To determine the extent to which the use of detection information affects wildland fire forecasts, this research examines the range of burned area values and propagation directions resulting from different initiation point locations and times. We examined the forecasts for ten Colorado 2018 wildland fire case studies, each initiated from a set of 17 different point locations, and three different starting times (a total of 520 case study simulations). The results show that the range of forecast burned area and propagation direction values is strongly affected by the location of the initiation location, and to a lesser degree by the time of initiation.
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dc.language en
dc.publisher MDPI
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.title Weather Research and Forecasting—Fire Simulated Burned Area and Propagation Direction Sensitivity to Initiation Point Location and Time
dc.title Fire
dc.type Article - Refereed
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