Fire Weather Index Implementation in the Alpine Area
Joint Authors
Pelosini, Renata
Ciccarelli, Nadia
Cane, Daniele
Source
Issue
Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-5, 5 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2011-10-26
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
5
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Piedmont region is located in North-Western Italy and is surrounded by the alpine chain and by the Apennines.
The region is covered by a wide extension of forests, mainly in its mountain areas (the forests cover 36% of the regional territory).
In the period 1997–2007, Piedmont gained interest by an average of 378 wildfire events per year, covering an average of 1767 ha of forest per year.
Meteorological conditions like long periods without precipitation contribute to create favourable conditions to forest fire development, while the fire propagation is made easier by the foehn winds, frequently interesting the region in winter and spring particularly.
We applied the Fire Weather Index FWI (Van Wagner, 1987) to the Piedmont region on warning areas previously defined for fire management purposes (Cane et al., 2008).
Here we present a new technique for the definition of thresholds in order to obtain alert levels more suited with the local conditions of the forest fire warning areas.
We describe also the implementation of the prognostic FWI prediction system, involving the use of good forecasts of weather parameters at the station locations obtained by the Multimodel SuperEnsemble postprocessing technique.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Cane, Daniele& Ciccarelli, Nadia& Pelosini, Renata. 2011. Fire Weather Index Implementation in the Alpine Area. ISRN Meteorology،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-5.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Cane, Daniele…[et al.]. Fire Weather Index Implementation in the Alpine Area. ISRN Meteorology No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-5.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Cane, Daniele& Ciccarelli, Nadia& Pelosini, Renata. Fire Weather Index Implementation in the Alpine Area. ISRN Meteorology. 2011. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-471538
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-471538