Sentence examples for intense wildfire from inspiring English sources
As expected, California also saw an intense wildfire season in 2014, blowing well through its firefighting budget.
They are described by meteorologists as "rapidly spinning vortices that form when air superheated by an intense wildfire rises rapidly, consolidating low-level spin from winds converging into the fire like a spinning ice skater, pulling its arms inward'.
When weather goes into a holding pattern consequences can be severe: record rains; deeper, drier droughts; a longer, more intense wildfire season; and longer periods of life-threatening heat.
Thus, their probability of occurrence depends upon the probability of intense storms occurring during a window of increased susceptibility to surface erosion and mass wasting following intense wildfire.
Hence, the maintenance of the highest C-density stands in the landscape, and potentially that largest landscape level C-stocks among Tasmania's wet forests ironically requires the periodic killing of all, or part, of the large C-dense eucalypt overstory by intense wildfire to allow these large eucalypts to regenerate and persist on these sites.
We are preparing for an intense wildfire season".
Eastern Russia's spring wildfire season continued to heat up in late May, with intense wildfires consuming vast areas and leaving large burn scars easily visible from space.
Parts of the south-east of the US have faced a combination of drought and strong gusts of up to 80mph, culminating in intense wildfires.
The presence of particulate carbon and grapefruit-sized clusters of soot was consistent with the occurrence of intense wildfires, which were also associated with the asteroid-induced mass extinction of 65 million years ago.
Results suggest that recurrent fuel management may promote highly flammable pioneer shrublands, whereas lack of management promotes late-successional vegetation with high risk of intense wildfires.
The study contributes to the ongoing debate over the relative importance of fuel versus weather in explaining large and intense wildfires.
