Sentence examples for danger indices from inspiring English sources

In its daily assessment of conditions around the country, the fire center said today that 11 states in the West were reporting "very high to extreme fire danger indices," with hot and dry weather expected to continue.

The validation of the resulting fire danger indices highlights the suitability of both proposed approaches.

Our work shifts the emphasis from the pervading probabilistic mindset in risk assessment toward the notions of danger indices and hazard temporal contingency.

The timing of fires from 16 different cause types were investigated at hourly, daily, monthly and annual scales, and using fire danger indices and fuel moisture.

Fire risk management requires precise knowledge of the likely consequences of climate on fire risk, and the interest for decision-makers is focused on multi-variable fire danger indices, calculated through the combination of different model output variables.

We show that the use of state variables enables the definition of metrics for accident escalation, termed hazard levels or danger indices, which measure the "proximity" of the system state to adverse events, and we illustrate the development of such indices.

The models also confirmed the link between relative-humidity and fire danger index in south-east Australia, but indicated that even in some areas of Australia where the computer models predicted an increase in relative humidity, the fire danger was still predicted to increase.

The official scale of reference is the Fire Danger Index (FDI), which uses 1939's Black Friday as its benchmark, affording that a score of 100.

When weather and fire authorities issue warnings about the risk of fire in Australia, they use what's known as the McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index - or FFDI for short.

Most of the metropolitan areas that fared poorly in the survey were in the South and Southwest, although California's Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario section was fifth on the danger index.

He says: The 1995 study using two computer models of the effects of doubled CO2 confirmed the results of the 1988 paper for south-eastern Australia, and also confirmed that the results of the 1998 paper (an increase in fire danger index with an increase in CO2 levels) was true for almost all of Australia.