The Library Of Fire Vol. VIIICXXIV

That's right, it's a paper wrap

Science library of Upper Lusatia in Görlitz, Germany (Source: Ralf Roletschek via Wikimedia Commons) [Ed. I like the photo but the off-centre framing is troubling]

Paper, The Skinny*

• Tang et al 24, WUI is getting bigger so we’re getting more WUI fires

• McConnell and Koslov 24, We’d better think about managed retreat

• Held et al 24, We’d better think about firefighter health

• Jones et al 24, You had me at ‘Mapping jurisdictional complexity’ (bonus points for use of hexels in Figure 3)

• Chen et al 24, We see you, Tang et al 24, and we raise you

• Keeping et al 24, We can predict daily wildfire probability in the (contiguous) US

• Turner et al 24, 8 easy steps to improve your fire forecast

• Mulverhill et al 24, Canada kind of looks like a dragon smoking a pipe (absolutely beautiful reconstruction of Canadian forest fire trends I would love to see replicated for Australia)

• Stoof et al 24, Western Europe is fire-prone now

• Kronborg et al 24, Somebody get Antony Green on the phone! (pyropsephology is a thing now)

• Tory et al 24, Hold your horses, climate change and fire researchers

• Khairoun et al 24, Hold your horses, global coarse resolution burned area data users

• Baron et al 24, Hold your horses, Canadian forest fuel modellers

• Fillmore et al 24, Behold, the Wildfire Decision Framework!

• Kirschner et al 24, Italy gets a paradigm shift

• Chatzopoulos-Vouzoglanis et al 24, Hold your horses, remote fire intensity and fire severity conflaters

• Little et al 24, The landscape is not a bad unit for analysing fuel moisture

• Bendall et al 24, Megatrees and megadisturbance

• Grootemat et al 24 & Hollis et al 24 & Hollis et al 24, Behold, the Australian Fire Danger Rating System!

• Telfer et al 24, What makes fire in coastal mallee shrublands tick?

• Gordon et al 24, Enter the Fuel Array

• Kreider et al 24, Fire follows no fire

• Luo et al 24, Dryness and drought trump warming in the race to stoke night-time flames

• Nolan et al 24, Fires don’t burn the same everywhere and it matters, dagnabbit

• Croker et al 24, You had me at ‘Decolonising’

• Adams & Neumann 24, Hold your horses, Future Fire

• Bird et al 24, Aboriginal people aren’t lying (Pretty incredible paleo analysis of fire in Australia’s tropical savannahs)

• Neger et al 24, Wildfire meets Tourism Management

• Novick et al 24, Get ready to hear a lot more about VPD

• Copes-Gerbitz et al 24, Three easy steps to transform the world with fire research

• Kosovac et al 24, Please do one of these for fire

• Sayedi et al 24, I only just finished reading Jones et al 22, can someone please give me the Cliff’s Notes for this? (Every reference to changing global fire regimes will now cite this beauty)

• Buettner et al 24, PODs are my favourite new acronym

• Lindenmayer & Zylstra 23, Fire follows fire

• Johnston et al 24, Everything you wanted to know about fire, health and climate change but were afraid to ask

• Plucinski et al 24, If conditions are right, initial attack will succeed. If not, see Kreider et al 24

• Kepert et al 24, All aboard the Brandmobile

• Rodriguez-Jimenez et al 23, We see you, Tang et al 24 and Chen et al 24, and we raise you a regional analysis

• Daniels et al 24, Respect the suppression spectrum

• Nguyen et al 23, There has been an incident - more than one in fact, and the data is all yours

• Trauernicht et al 23, Gives new meaning to the term Ring of Fire (sadly hyper-relevant after Lahaina fires)

• McNorton & Di Giuseppe 24, Here, have a global fuel load and fuel moisture dataset

• Elliot-Kerr et al 24, Google Translate for wildfire impacts

• Pandey et al 23, Here, have a global wildfire policy and risk outlook (Brainteaser challenge: find Pandey et al 23 in the screenshot from my last quasi paper update)

*I used to enjoy those sports columns where a writer would add a bit of colour to the standard win/loss for-and-against stuff by giving a short and snappy summary - the Skinny - about the state of affairs of each team. Readers would be fairly warned that opinions were purely those of the Committee (of one). So it is here. I apologise profusely for any inaccurate, misleading, offensive or libellous statements.

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Because we’ve had a few new subscribers come on board in recent times (yes, there’s more than one of you now!), allow me to remind you that this ain’t my first rodeo - there’s been a few fast and furious survey of recent papers.

I heartily encourage all of you with nothing better to do to jump into the Future Fire Archives, where you’ll find similar previous efforts, poetry, program logics, and all kinds of other stuff. Chances are, my best work is behind me. So get out your gloves and start sifting through the ashes!

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I’ve been listening to At Work In The Ruins by Douglad Hine, on the recommendation of my colleague at Melbourne Climate Futures, Dan Hill. He talks about the difference between a problem and a predicament, with the former being solvable and the latter, well, not really. Death, Hine suggests, is a predicament rather than a problem.

Well, Dear Readers, what about fire?

Problem or predicament?