Questions tagged [wildfire]
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Why does OISST trend for this year appear to be increasingly diverging from the mean since early March?
With recent news about hottest global daily temps on record, I came across climatereanalyzer.org from the University of Maine.
I ended up looking at their data for daily sea surface temperature and ...
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What would it cost to stop Canada forest fires?
If the goal were to cut the total amount of smoke in the air in half, how many
millions of dollars per year are we talking about here? I envision hiring
hundreds of people to find fires before they ...
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Central Canada wildfires in June 2023 — at night it seems like less smoke? Why?
I live in Maryland. I bought a HEPA air purifier with automatic, smart sensor-based operation to help with things like particulates during the central Canada wildfires.
The air purifier's integrated ...
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Water comparison of different aqueous bodies in regions not affected by wildfire but adjacent to affected ones
Some big wildfires are hitting some places in Chile. I have read that aqueous bodies can be affected during/after major wildfires. Is it possible to determine if it is safe to drink spring water (...
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What would be the effects of a large forest fire on soil in other places?
Say a large forest fire took place. As I understand it, the smoke and ash would ride the wind and could be a health hazard even to people that are quite far away.
My question is will it damage the ...
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Boundary between areas having frequent versus infrequent forest fires
In some parts of North America, such as California, the climax ecosystem has frequent forest fires -- that is, relatively dry forest that in absence of human intervention would burn perhaps every ...
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Forest fuel biochar burial
Record fires are blazing in the west coast, huge even compared to California's notorious summers.
Dead plants and debris are crucial to get a fire started. This debris could be collected, carbonized, ...
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Does US have more forest fires in Sep 2020 than average?
I see lots U.S. wildfires on Zoom Earth, and lots news about them. Is this amount of wildfires normal? Or is this average? If over average, why?
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The effect of the 2019-2020 bushfires/wildfires in Australia
What was the total damage of the 2019-2020 bushfires/wildfires in Australia?
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How much heat was released from the 2019-2020 Australian bush fires?
How much heat was released from the 2019-2020 Australian bush fires? And is that likely to have a measurable impact on global atmospheric heat content?
Maybe as a secondary question: How much impact ...
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How susceptible is the greater Seattle area to an wildland-urban interface conflagration like the Camp Fire or 1991 Oakland firestorm?
Is there the risk of an "Issaquah firestorm", something with the intensity of Tyee Creek or Thirtymile but hitting suburban areas of the Cascade foothills like Issaquah, Samammish, Cougar Mountain?
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Why did the Australian bushfires cause pitch darkness during the daytime?
Saturday 4th January was truly an extroadinary and terrible day for the south-east corner of Australia. Skies turned pitch black at around 3-5 pm, when normally these areas would be in daylight. I ...
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How do you stop the Australian wildfires?
The Australian fires are the biggest anyone has ever seen and is increasing at a rapid rate causing smog all around the country, approximately 1 billion animals have lost their lives, as of 9 January ...
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Could Australia's bushfires aerosols actually decrease global temperature?
Given the vastness and intensity of the bushfires that have been going on in Australia for weeks now, to the point they are generating their own weather and having an impact thousands kilometers away ...
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Large Scale lightning Strikes from Cloudless or Near Coudless Skies. How Does it Work?
It is reported in the media that currently in Australia there are dozens of wildfires caused by lightning strikes. I am familiar with the mechanism of ordinary British lightning involving cumulonimbus ...
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Why is it that Spring in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the peak season for forest fires both man made and lightning caused when it rains so much in the spring and it is so wet there in ...
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What does the containment percentage mean when a fire department is reporting on a wildfire?
The LAFD reported that the Getty fire near Los Angeles is "5% contained". What is meant by "containment" and what does 5% containment mean in this context? I've tried googling "wildfire containment" ...
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Is the Amazon rainforest resistant to fires?
Comparing the picture from Wikipedia that delimits the Amazon rainforest and the picture of the recent dramatic fires in the area that NASA published, what I can gather is that the burned zone is the ...
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Is the rainforest too wet to burn?
I want to know if a living rainforest in the Amazon, completely untouched by humans, is too wet for the fire to spread, even in the dryer months around July?
I.e. if somebody dropped 5000 gallons of ...
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Origin of Serious Wildfires
At a very rough estimate, what proportion of wildfires are caused by natural events like lightning? I am absolutely sure that in Europe, where there are often wildfires, the sun is never hot enough to ...
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When did wildfires start to occur on earth?
An oxidizer, fuel, and heat are needed for a fire. When considering oxygen as the oxidizer, an oxygen concentration of approximately 16% is required for combustion. Plant material is the fuel ...
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What 3-day smoke forecasts are height-resolved?
In order to accurately perform weather forecasts during large wildfire events, weather models must include the smoke. Smoke reflects sunlight back to space, decreasing the light absorbed by the ...
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