Nick McCarthy

🧵Since it is becoming hard to track, here is a thread of the simply astounding weather records planet Earth has started shattering in recent weeks: 1. Dramatic flood events have begun striking various countries around the world simultaneously this week. twitter.com/Rishusharma26/…

Really interesting thread and set of papers, thanks Victor. Wish I had this picture in my head before my month of FBAN in Northern AB.

@Cyclogenesis_au @nplareau @FireWeatherLab @UNRScience journals.ametsoc.org/configurable/c…

Long field day on the #mosquitofire but hats off to @FireWeatherLab & @UNRScience students for a successful day of radar/lidar plume obs. It’s not easy: finding locations, overcoming adversities, and walking away with a pile of data that will drive the science forward. #CalFIDE

@SKrisanski Congrats Sean!!

PhD thesis finally submitted!

Excited to finally share the major output of my PhD with the world! This is a Python package which accepts high-resolution forest point clouds as input and fully automatically (and without parameter tuning) turns them into detailed measurements. youtu.be/rej5Bu57AqM

@jramireztsyl @technosylva Hey Joaquin! Did the resolution of data from the L1 give you enough point density to show differences in the treatments in terms of height vs. density metrics?

Different types of vegetation treatments on pines in Leon (Spain), captured with LIDAR-UAS to evaluate fuels for fire modeling by the @technosylva team #WildfireAnalyst youtu.be/qftplhPUa5o

The fire season so far in northern Australia. Some sophisticated burning work conducted early in the dry season, combining indigenous knowledge, science, and technology. A few bigger fires sparking up now under challenging fire weather conditions. ihttp://firenorth.org.au

Woo! Bit of good news for the feed. Glad to have colleagues like Sam, and brilliant he can represent forest fire science via the Fulbright. Strong work across disciplines, agencies and borders!!

Excited to share the first chapter of my PhD, published in @Fire_MDPI this week. Forest structure drives FMC response across alternative forest states 🌳🔥🧐 mdpi.com/2571-6255/4/3/… @asinbar @jeeburton @drgarysheridan @ForestHydroMelb

@elisethoma5 Hey Elise! It’s certainly pretty soggy out (much like Morrison’s leadership). There’s good grass fire potential but generally it’ll be a slow start in most places with soil/fuel moisture very high. Likely not much of a bushfire season, but that’s not speaking for northern Aus.

Great example of the transition from ash-filled to precipitating #pyroCb on the #BootlegFire. Note the transition from low (blues) to high (reds) correlation coefficient as the plume generates quasi-spherical rain drops. The northern fringe goes first, then the southern fringe.

The lack of rain this season has severely impacted our chaparral live fuel moistures. Wow, never seen April fuels look so... dry. No new growth anywhere in this Chamise. April is climatologically the highest live FMC of the season. Very Scary! #CAwx #firedanger

This is such clever and elegant science.

Congrats to Kathy Gosby on receiving accreditation as a Level 3 Incident Controller, the first woman to do this in Victoria’s emergency service history. This is testament to her dedication over many years of working in public land management, fire suppression and planned burning.

#eastroublesomefire from the air.

If you're in #FortCollins or #Greeley, or anywhere under the #CameronPeakFire plume we'd love to see your #AshFall pictures! Please include location, time, and something for scale your photos and tag #AshFall! #COwx #COfire.

@QldFBC @QldFES @GetReadyQld @IGEMQld Best of luck @QldFBC, recognition of your work is deserved even if you don't get the final award!

QFBC is a finalist in the QRA 2020 Resilient Australia Awards today for our collaborative Fire Planning Workshops. Wish us luck! @QldFES @GetReadyQld @IGEMQld

Serious situation for this remote community in Far North Queensland, well into the tropics.