GFMC: Daily Global and Regional Fire Weather and Climate Forecasts

GFMC Wildland Fire Early Warning Portal

Global, Regional and National Fire Weather and Climate Forecasts

Background Materials

Fire Weather Forecasts

Global and regional:

NOAA/NESDIS Fire Risk and Vegetation Health Products
El Niño /Southern Ocscillation (ENSO) Forecast
Index of the Soil Moisture Content (global daily real time)

Upcoming soon:

Global Early Warning System for Wildland Fire

Regional:

National:

	Argentina:	Combustion Risk Index and Convectivity Index
	Australia	CSIRO Fire Danger, Fire Spread and House Survival Meters
	Brazil:	Observed and Predicted Fire Weather and NDVI
	Canada:	Wildland Fire Information System
	Finland:	The Finnish Forest Fire Index
	Germany:	Forest and Grassland Fire Danger Indices
	Greece:	Forest Fire Danger Index
	Indonesia:	Indonesian Fire Danger Rating System Fire Danger Rating for East Kalimantan Fire Danger Rating for Sumatra
	Italy	Veneto Region Fire Danger Rating System
	Korea, Republic of	Korea Forest Fire Danger Rating System
	Malaysia	Malaysia Fire Danger Rating System
	México:	Wildland Fire Information System
	New Zealand:	Fire Weather Forecasts
	Poland:	Forest Fire Danger Index
	Portugal:	Meteorological Support to Forest Fire Prevention
	Russia	Meteorological Fire Indices
	South Africa:	Net Forecasting Zululand Fire Weather
	Sweden	Forest and Grassland Fire Index
	USA:	Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS) NOAA National Fire Weather Page Fire Weather Forecasts of the Storm Prediction Center (SPC)

Training materials:

	Canada:	Understanding the Fire Weather Index (FWI) System (Interactive Multimedia Training)

Other materials:

	Canada	CFFDRS Weather Guide
	New Zealand	Proposed Revision of Fire Danger Class Criteria for Forest and Rural Areas in New Zealand
	USA:	Applying the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) to Alaskan Ecosystems
		The Keech-Byram-Drought-Index: A Corrigendum

Climate Forecasts

	European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
	International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI)
	Climate Prediction Center (CPC)

Other Early Warning Websites

	UN ISDR Platform for the Promotion of Early Warning (PPEW)
	Humanitarian Early Warning Service - HEWS

Major References and Documents on Early Warning of Wildland Fire

Global Survey of Early Warning Systems. A report prepared at the request of the Secretary-General of the United Nations (Final version released after the Third International Conference on Early Warning, Bonn, 27-29 March 2006; PDF, 1.0 MB)
Third International Conference on Early Warning (Wildland Fire Workshop, 28 March 2006)
Innovative Concepts and Methods in Fire Danger Estimation (Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Remote Sensing and GIS Applications to Forest Fire Management, Ghent, Belgium, 5-7 June 2003) (PDF, 7.5 MB) Workshop Website: http://www.geogra.uah.es/earsel/report1.html
Statement of the Second international Conference on Early Warning (PDF, 134 KB)
Effective Early Warning to Reduce Disasters: The Need for More Coherent International Action (Resolution of the Second International Conference on Early Warning, Bonn, Germany, 16-18 October 2003) (PDF, 212 KB)
Earth Negotiations Report on the Second International Conference on Early Warning
Earth Negotiations Bulletin Vol. 26, No1 (20 October 2003)
Early Warning of Wildland Fires (A Synoptic Paper prepared for the Second International Conference on Early Warning, Bonn, Germany, 16-18 October 2003) (PDF, 342 KB)
IDNDR Early Warning Programme Report on Early Warning for Fire and Other Environmental Hazards (IDNDR Secretariat / GFMC, 1997)
Workshop on International Collaboration in Fire Weather Research (Summary of findings and conclusions of a joint workshop of the Bureau of Meteorology, Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre, and the World Weather Research Programme, Melbourne, Australia, 9-10 October 2003). Workshop Website:
http://www.bom.gov.au/bmrc/wefor/projects/fire_wx/index.htm

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