Performance Evaluation of an Operational Rapid Response Fire Spread Forecasting System in the Southeast Mediterranean (Greece)

Atmosphere

Vassiliki Kotroni¹  Konstantinos Lagouvardos¹  TheodoreM. Giannaros¹ 

[1] National Observatory of Athens, Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development, Lofos Koufou, 15236 Penteli, Greece;

关键词: WRF-Fire;    Greece;    operational forecasting;    wildfire;    IRIS;    fire spread;   

DOI  :  10.3390/atmos11111264

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The current work presents the operational implementation and evaluation of a rapid response fire spread forecasting system, named IRIS, that was developed to provide support to the tactical wildfire suppression activities of the Hellenic Fire Corps. The system was operationally employed during the 2019 fire season in Greece, providing on-demand wildfire spread predictions for 17 incidents. Satellite remote sensing data were employed for quantitatively assessing IRIS’s predictions for eight selected events. Our results suggest an overall satisfactory model performance. More importantly, this study demonstrates that, as coupled fire-atmosphere modeling becomes an increasingly popular approach, the respective models have great potential to support operational agencies and wildfire managers during the incident phase.

【 授权许可】

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