Brief communication: The Lahaina Fire disaster – how models can be used to understand and predict wildfires

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• Journal Title:
  Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
• Personal Author:
  Juliano, Timothy W. ; Szasdi-Bardales, Fernando ; Lareau, Neil P. ; Shamsaei, Kasra ; Kosović, Branko ; Elhami-Khorasani, Negar ; James, Eric P. ; Ebrahimian, Hamed
• NOAA Program & Office:
  CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)
• Description:
  Following the destructive Lahaina Fire in Hawaii, our team has modeled the wind and fire spread processes to understand the drivers of this devastating event. The results are in good agreement with observations recorded during the event. Extreme winds with high variability, a fire ignition close to the community, and construction characteristics led to continued fire spread in multiple directions. Our results suggest that available modeling capabilities can provide vital information to guide decision-making and emergency response management during wildfire events.
• Source:
  Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 24(1), 47-52
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-47-2024
• ISSN:
  1684-9981
• Format:
  PDF
• Publisher:
  Copernicus GmbH
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC BY
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:f0179534e32040695f48e952641b74883bb29add83d1ac56c329dd6e4c06be8b
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/61111/noaa_61111_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.89 MB ]