Seminar Three
Forecasting and modelling wildfire risk for UK moorlands and heaths
The University of Manchester, 31 March-1 April 2009
Experimental Met Office Fire Severity Index.
This seminar will focus on three modelling tools used to minimise damage to ecosystems; forecasting timing and severity of wildfire hazard and risk; modelling the behaviour of active fires; and geospatial models to show how risk varies from place to place and investigate causes. Alternative conceptual and methodological approaches will be discussed. We will explore how mathematical and physical models of fire behaviour fit UK peatland fires, whether they could be improved with geospatial data and how they could improve fire-fighting strategies.
Programme
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Participation
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