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Displaying 15 of about 97 resultsThe California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) is pleased to announce its groundbreaking partnership with University of California San Diego’s ALERTCalifornia program. With the shared goal of improving firefighting capabilities and response times, CAL FIRE and ALERTCalifornia will embark on an innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI…
NAIROBI/GENEVA, 13 February 2012 - In advance of critical rainfall forecasts for the Horn of Africa, the UN office for disaster risk reduction, UNISDR, today announced a partnership with the WMO-supported African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) to ensure rapid dissemination of weather updates to disaster managers.
Pedro Ba…
GENEVA, 21 May 2013 - On the opening day of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mayors and local government representatives took part in an open debate on ‘Disaster Risk Reduction Measures at the local level in South Eastern Europe”.
Floods, droughts and forest fires – all of which are cross-border hazards – are the main risks in South Eas…
GENEVA, 31 October 2012 - UNISDR Chief Margareta Wahlstrom spoke to the opening session of this week's extraordinary session of the World Meteorological Congress which is discussing the implementation plan and governance model for the Global Framework for Climate Services.
Ms. Wahlstrom congratulated the World Meteorological Organization on the initiat…
GENEVA, 4 July 2011 – As Europe and North America move into the summer season, the risk of wildfires will increase. While these natural hazards may not get the attention of earthquakes, tsunamis and cyclones, their destructive potential is considerable and reducing the risks they present should be a priority for countries who face this threat.
Over two…
The devastation of the 2019/2020 bushfire season put unprecedented stress on communities and response teams, and the memories of that smoke-filled summer will remain for years to come.
Smoke from bushfires can negatively affect surrounding populations due to the health risks associated with prolonged poor air quality. For individuals who are vulnerable…
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Although camera systems didn’t help early detection of the Dixie Fire, the technology is one of the most promising to come from research labs and vendors, McGranaghan said. Artificial intelligence software will tighten identification of fires by filtering out false positives, like a column of dust kicked up by a truck on a mountain road, and comb…
By 2030, climate change will make one in 25 Australian homes “uninsurable” if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, with riverine flooding posing the greatest insurance risk, a new Climate Council analysis finds.
As a professor of architecture, I find this analysis grim, yet unsurprising. One reason is because Australian housing is lar…
With climate change driving worsening U.S. wildfires, machine learning and statistical models let firefighters map out ahead of time how and where blazes might spread.
Artificial intelligence helps model fires before they break out.
Tech tools allow fire crews to work with limited resources.
Improvements key as climate change raises fire risks.
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Climate change has increased the likelihood of the occurrence of disasters like wildfires, floods, storms, and landslides worldwide in the last years. Weather conditions change continuously and rapidly, and wildfires are occurring repeatedly and diffusing with higher intensity. The burnt catchments are known, in many parts of the world, as one of the ma…
With emerging research on the dynamics of extreme fire behavior, it is increasingly important for windmodels, used in operational fire prediction, to accurately capture areas of complex flow across rugged terrain. Additionally, the emergence of ensemble and stochasticmodeling frameworks has led to the discussion of uncertainty in fire prediction.
To ca…
Mike Flannigan, Professor of Wildland Fire, University of Alberta; Mike Wotton, Research Scientist, Wildfire Behaviour, University of Toronto
It’s been a record-setting year for devastating and deadly wildfires across Canada and throughout the world.
This year alone, wildfires globally have burned about four million square kilometres of…
By Jon Kelvey
Shortly before dawn on 8 November 2018, a fire erupted in the dry mountain grass in Butte County, Calif. By sunset, driven by dry winds, the fire had consumed the town of Paradise, its 20,000 citizens struggling to flee before the flames as official evacuation calls were outpaced by the speed of the conflagration. The Camp Fire…
One of the best predictors of western wildfires could be how hot it’s been, according to a new geography study by the University of Cincinnati.
Geography professor Susanna Tong and her students studied a variety of weather, microclimate and ground conditions in historic fires around Phoenix, Arizona, and Las Vegas, Nevada, to determine which might be t…
By Rachelle Chong
Wildfires are growing in intensity and frequency, escalating the threat posed to Americans — and the critical utility infrastructure we rely on. According to a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, weather and climate disasters cost the U.S. $91 billion in 2018.
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Existing advanced technologies ca…