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GFMC Wildland Fire Early Warning Portal
Global, Regional and National Fire Weather and Climate Forecasts Background Materials |
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GFMC Wildland Fire Early Warning Portal
Global, Regional and National Fire Weather and Climate Forecasts
Background Materials
Global Wildland Fire Early Warning System (GWFEWS)
Fire Weather Forecasts
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Global and regional: |
Regional:
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Training materials:
| Canada: |
Understanding the Fire Weather Index (FWI) System (Interactive Multimedia Training) | |
Other materials:
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
Earth
Negotiations Report on the
Second International Conference on Early Warning
Earth Negotiations Bulletin Vol. 26, No1 (20 October 2003)
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
Global Monitoring and Forecasting of Biomass-Burning Smoke: Description of and Lessons From the Fire Locating and Modeling of Burning Emissions (FLAMBE) Program (by J.S. Reid et al., 2009) (PDF, 2 MB)
Workshop on Peatland Fire Prediction and Warning in the ASEAN Region
(Key Conclusions and Recommendations of the workshop, which was held
in Kuala Lumpur, 13-14 July 2010):
ASEAN-Peatland-EW-Workshop-2010-Final-Statement
(PDF, 0.1 MB).