Fire Weather assessment and visualization

Autores
Waidelich, Sigfrido; Zimmerman, Viviana; Laneri, Karina; Denham, Mónica M.
Año de publicación
2019
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
documento de conferencia
Estado
versión publicada
Descripción
Fil: Waidelich, Sigfrido. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Laboratorio de Procesamiento de Señales Aplicado y Computación de Alto Rendimiento; Argentina
Fil: Zimmerman, Viviana. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Centro Regional Universitario Bariloche; Argentina.
Fil: Laneri, Karina. Centro Atómico Bariloche, Física Estadística e Interdisciplinaria; Argentina
Fil: Denham, Mönica M. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Laboratorio de Procesamiento de Señales Aplicado y Computación de Alto Rendimiento; Argentina
Fil: Laneri, Karina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Denham, Mönica M. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
The Fire Weather Index (FWI) is extensively used in Argentina to support operative preventive measures for forest fires management. This index describes the moisture content of three different fuel types and the effect of the wind in the behaviour of fire. During last years our team developed a wildfire simulator with several functionalities requested by firefighters. In this work we report the spatial visualization of the FWI on our simulator, in order to describe the dependence of forest fire risks on FWI and fuel type of Northwest Patagonian forests in Argentina. This additional functionality allows the user to visualize the local spatial configuration of fire risk. The potential of this tool is that it would provide the FWI to be readily used in all fire stations in Argentina. Moreover, it could be taken as input information of a fire propagation model under development. In this sense, the need of modelling the impact of weather on the fuel becomes essential for the accuracy of forest fire simulations.
Materia
Ingeniería, Ciencia y Tecnología
Fire Weather Index
Forest Fire Simulation
GPGPU
Ingeniería, Ciencia y Tecnología
Nivel de accesibilidad
acceso abierto
Condiciones de uso
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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RID-UNRN (UNRN)
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Universidad Nacional de Río Negro
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title Fire Weather assessment and visualization
spellingShingle Fire Weather assessment and visualization
Waidelich, Sigfrido
Ingeniería, Ciencia y Tecnología
Fire Weather Index
Forest Fire Simulation
GPGPU
Ingeniería, Ciencia y Tecnología
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title_full Fire Weather assessment and visualization
title_fullStr Fire Weather assessment and visualization
title_full_unstemmed Fire Weather assessment and visualization
title_sort Fire Weather assessment and visualization
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Zimmerman, Viviana
Laneri, Karina
Denham, Mónica M.
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Zimmerman, Viviana
Laneri, Karina
Denham, Mónica M.
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Laneri, Karina
Denham, Mónica M.
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Fire Weather Index
Forest Fire Simulation
GPGPU
Ingeniería, Ciencia y Tecnología
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Fire Weather Index
Forest Fire Simulation
GPGPU
Ingeniería, Ciencia y Tecnología
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Fil: Laneri, Karina. Centro Atómico Bariloche, Física Estadística e Interdisciplinaria; Argentina
Fil: Denham, Mönica M. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Laboratorio de Procesamiento de Señales Aplicado y Computación de Alto Rendimiento; Argentina
Fil: Laneri, Karina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Denham, Mönica M. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
The Fire Weather Index (FWI) is extensively used in Argentina to support operative preventive measures for forest fires management. This index describes the moisture content of three different fuel types and the effect of the wind in the behaviour of fire. During last years our team developed a wildfire simulator with several functionalities requested by firefighters. In this work we report the spatial visualization of the FWI on our simulator, in order to describe the dependence of forest fire risks on FWI and fuel type of Northwest Patagonian forests in Argentina. This additional functionality allows the user to visualize the local spatial configuration of fire risk. The potential of this tool is that it would provide the FWI to be readily used in all fire stations in Argentina. Moreover, it could be taken as input information of a fire propagation model under development. In this sense, the need of modelling the impact of weather on the fuel becomes essential for the accuracy of forest fire simulations.
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