Sentence examples for high intensity fires from inspiring English sources

These results indicate that the replacement of grass dominated with shrub-dominated landscapes has increased the probability of high intensity fires.

We also found most areas were burned by high intensity fires under the current fire scenario, but by low to moderate fires under the historic fire scenario.

After a half century of fire suppression, fire hazards have increased to a high level and high intensity fires are more likely to occur.

Under certain conditions wildland fire can promote significant ecological benefits and reduce the risk that high intensity fires will spread to areas of high value into the future (Noss et al. 2006).

In regions of the Selenge Aimag in Northern Mongolia, logging activity and high intensity fires caused larch forest area as pure or mixed-species to decrease, while increasing birch forest area (Gradel et al. 2010).

High intensity fires produce only 30% more direct emissions than low intensity fires, and fuel reduction treatments can remove as much or more biomass from the forest as is lost in a high intensity wildfire [16].

For instance, a pixel identified as experiencing an intense fire disturbance and a low intensity insect disturbance was assigned the high intensity fire disturbance as the single disturbance driving loss.

These places are very vulnerable to high intensity fire".

We report on the weather conditions, fuels and propagation of this fire to gain insights into the physical processes involved in high intensity fire behaviour in eucalypt forests.

Live fuels, also called canopy fuels, are live trees that may be ignited in high intensity fire situations (such as crown fires).

Further in some areas such as lodgepole pine forests in the interior west, the natural fire regime is infrequent high intensity fire and reasonable fuels reduction treatments are limited.