Toward a UK Fire Danger Rating System

Exciting to learn about the outputs from the @ukfdrs project. A ton of hard work has gone into developing FireInSite - their trial fire behaviour predictions model for the UK. @garethdclay and the team would love your feedback. Check it out: fireinsite.org #wildfire2024

PhD opportunity!! ➡️Heathland Flammability Responses to Environmental Change 🌿🔥 centa.ac.uk/studentship/20… Work with a great team of researchers at University of Birmingham, University of Exeter, Forestry England & Met Office!

Discussion open for comments: Extreme blocking ridges are associated with large wildfires in England doi.org/10.5194/nhess-…

Secondly, Labenski et al. (2024) looks at recovery after fires using multiple optical vegetation indices. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @pia_labenski @gmillin7chalabi @anafo185 @FabianFassnach1 @garethdclay

Firstly, Nikonovas et al. (2024) which looks at the effect of vegetation phenology on UK wildfire occurrence. publish.csiro.au/WF/WF23205 @doerr_s @ClaireMBelcher @nkettridge @santin_cristina @DrTELS @garethdclay

🚨Two new #OpenAccess papers out from @ukfdrs project...

In case you missed it earlier in the year, new #OpenAccess paper: "Diurnal fuel moisture content variations of live and dead Calluna vegetation in a temperate peatland". Full paper at rdcu.be/dOj2S @LittleKerryn @nkettridge @GeogBham @LauraJaneGraham

@LittleKerryn @PyroLife_ITN @ukfdrs .@LittleKerryn discussing at #EGU24 how we may use synoptic climatology to provide a longer term assessments of European fire danger

@ukfdrs Great presentation by Katy Ivison yesterday at #EGU24 outlining the controls on fuel moisture content across the UK and their response to extreme heat wave conditions.

Looking forwards to #EGU24 next week. 5 talks and 2 posters (including 4 highlights) led by amazing researchers and partners as part of @ukfdrs @IrishPeatland @PyroLife_ITN and others.

New paper: "Landscape controls on fuel moisture variability in fire-prone heathland and peatland landscapes" fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

As we begin to move into the 2024 wildfire season, here are some of the headline results collected last year by the amazing #TheGreatFuelMoistureSurvey volunteers

Happy to share this piece of research completed with some of the University of Birmingham Undergraduate Geography cohort in the 2022 Fieldwork Project Design and GIS module! doi.org/10.1071/WF23078 This was a really positive experience of research-embedded education 🧵

We have 3 years of soil moisture / temperature and surface temperature data from across the moors too, please feel free to get in touch if you are interested in doing some science with it! :)

End of an era! Packing up all 36 fuel moisture monitoring plots on the North York Moors. Thank you to the Estates and individuals involved in making such an extensive landscape scale fuel moisture campaign possible. Look out for our results 👀 #firedanger #fireweather #fmc

Thanks to BBC Weekend News @ 10 @BBCNews @CliveMyrieBBC for reporting wildfire activity globally in 2023. Rebecca Murrell Science Editor summarises key trends including insights from @ukfdrs team @doerr_s and @gmillin7chalabi @GeographyUOM

Thanks to @bbc5live for inviting me to discuss wildfires in Canada and global wildfire trends on the Saturday Breakfast show @gmillin7chalabi @ukfdrs @UoMNews @GeographyUOM

Thanks to @BBCScotland for the opportunity to discuss wildfire risk in the UK on behalf of the @ukfdrs @UoMNews on The Sunday Show today. To watch the interview please visit bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

The article refers to Tom's work with the @NERCscience-funded UK Fire Danger Rating System project (@UKFDRS) which is working to build a new system to help predict how wildfires behave in the UK 🇬🇧.