Understanding Wildfire2 lesson(s)
Weather & Climate · Intermediate
Wildfires
By admin · An intermediate course on the fastest-growing weather-driven disaster: how wildfires ignite and spread, the weather that fans them, their destructive and natural roles, and the science of fire weather forecasting and living safely with fire.
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About this course
Wildfire is the most visible merger of weather and landscape: a spark, dry fuel and hot windy air can turn a mountainside into a wall of flame that outruns cars and reshapes cities in a single afternoon. This classroom explains the fire triangle and fire behavior, the role of drought, heat, wind and humidity, the weather patterns like Santa Ana and foehn winds that turn fires into catastrophes, the enormous cost in homes, lives, smoke and eroded land, and the forecasting, prevention and preparedness that let people live with fire instead of dying by it.
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Fire Impacts and Living with Fire2 lesson(s)