UCI-created AI tool for predicting blaze size proves successful in Alaska; team now focuses on California
December 16, 2019
New technique could help authorities conduct triage in multiple-blaze scenarios
September 17, 2019
Temperature increases during dry periods outpace average climate warming
August 1, 2018
UCI, other researchers examine differences between summer, Santa Ana fires
September 8, 2015
Researchers from the University of California, Irvine and NASA have uncovered a remarkably strong link between high wildfire risk in the Amazon basin and the devastating hurricanes that ravage North Atlantic shorelines. The climate scientists’ findings appear in the journal Geophysical Research Letters near the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s calamitous August 2005 landfall at New Orleans.
August 18, 2015
UCI Earth system science researchers Yang Chen and Jim Randerson, along with NASA colleagues, are predicting an above-average wildfire risk in the eastern Amazon region and an average to below-average fire risk in the western Amazon for the upcoming dry season.
August 4, 2015