- Title:
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Spatially Distributed Fire Warnings Thresholds and Its Application to Canadian Fire Weather Index and FFDI
- Date:
- September 2006
- Organisations
- BCRC
- Authors:
- Klara Finkele, Graham Mills.
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Location:
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Australia,
Australia
Overview
The Bureau of Meteorology's operational McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index uses a set of defined fire danger thresholds from low to extreme. The Australia wide threshold for a fire weather warning is to be issued at 50. However, in Tasmania this threshold has been lowered to 24 because significant fire activity occurs with this level of FFDI. This poses the question of how statistically-extreme FFDI may vary across the country.
