Fire climate interactions on the American Pacific Coast
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Fire climate interactions on the American Pacific Coast
ACRE workshop
Meteoswiss, June 24 2008
Valérie Trouet
A.H. Taylor, A.M. Carleton, C.N. Skinner
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Fire
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Fire EnvironmentVaries in Time and Space
Fuels - Vegetation Canopy Surface Ground
Weather Wind HumidityDrought
Landform – Terrain Slope Aspect, Elevation, Hill - Slope - Drainage
FireEnvironment
FireEffects
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Fire weather indicesFire growth potential, fire risk
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Fire weather indicesFire growth potential, fire risk
ERC
• Fuel moisture
• NFDRS
• 19 (CA) + 14 (OR) RAWS
• 1973-2005
• fire season (July-Sep)
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Haines Index
• range 2 – 6
• NCEP/NCAR (2.5°)
• daily (0000 UTC)
• 1961-2000Winkler et al. IJWF 2007
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Haines Index climatology
Winkler et al. IJWF 2007
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Mediterranean Climate AreaOregon and northern California
Trouet et al. GRL 2006
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Interannual variability HI
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HI, ERC vs. annual area burned
AAB Annual Winter Spring Summer FallFire
season
HI OR 0.58* 0.15 0.46* 0.39* -0.21 0.54*
CA 0.41* 0.15 0.36* 0.35* 0.03 0.41*
Days ≥ 5 OR 0.56* -0.02 0.36* 0.48* 0.01 0.56*
CA 0.39* 0.05 0.38* 0.35* 0.22 0.42*
Days ≤ 3 OR -0.6* -0.15 -0.45* -0.39* 0.12 -0.53*
CA -0.4* -0.14 -0.34* -0.35* -0.06 -0.4*
ERC OR 0.4*
CA 0.38*
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HI, ERC vs. annual area burned
Trouet et al. TAC 2008
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Temperature
HI
ERC
Precipitation
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High Low
HI
ERC
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Pacific North American (PNA) pattern
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Pacific North American (PNA) pattern
Winter PNA –
summer fire weather
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Conclusions
Severe fire weather years
• strong regional signal
• ~ widespread forest fires
• ~ synoptic scale circulation patterns
particularly PNA
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Fire Scar Network
Fire Regimes and Climatic Variability in
the Mediterranean-Climate Areas of
California, Southwestern Oregon,
and Western Nevada
Fire Regimes and Climatic Variability in
the Mediterranean-Climate Areas of
California, Southwestern Oregon,
and Western Nevada
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Fire regime reconstruction
1889 LW1879ME
1854 LE 1840 D
1828 D 1821 LE
1809 D 1799 D1793 D
1787 LW1781 ME
1775 D1771 D
1765 LW
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Fire regime reconstruction
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Airborne Research & Survey Facility
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