Improving Forest Fire Modeling in Europe
The recent development of the fire model by ESM, together with collaborators from JRC and European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), allowed more accurate reproduction of the observed relationships between burned area, climate, and above-ground biomass when wildfires break out.
This is particularly relevant for the applicability of the model to simulate future regimes under different climate conditions. The work was carried out as part of the MEDIATION Project - Methodology for Effective Decision-making on Impacts and AdaptaTION.
Comparison of historical annual burnt areas for Italy calculated by the model (FS) and provided by GFED v3.1 and EFFIS datasets
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