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The Studies on Relationship Between Forest Fire Characteristics and Weather Phase in Jeollanam-do Region  

Lee, Si-Young (Graduate School of Disaster Prevention, Kangwon National Univ.)
Park, Houng-Sek (Dept. of Bio. and Environ. Sci., Dongguk Univ.)
Kim, Young-Woong (Dept. of Bio. and Environ. Sci., Dongguk Univ.)
Yun, Hoa-Young (Dept. of Bio. and Environ. Sci., Dongguk Univ.)
Kim, Jong-Kab (Div. of Environ. For. Sci., Gyeongsang National Univ(Insti. of Agric. & Life Sci.).)
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Journal of agriculture & life science / v.45, no.4, 2011 , pp. 29-35 More about this Journal
Abstract
A forest fire was one of the huge disasters and damaged human lifes and a properties. Therefore, many countries operated forest fire forecasting systems which developed from forest fire records, weather data, fuel models and etc. And many countries also estimated future state of forest fire using a long-term climate forecasting like GCMs and prepared resources for future huge disasters. In this study, we analyzed relationships between forest fire occurrence and meteorological factors (the minimum temperature ($^{\circ}C$), the relative humidity (%), the precipitation (mm), the duration of sunshine (hour) and etc.) for developing a estimating tools, which could forecast forest fire regime under future climate change condition. Results showed that forest fires in this area were mainly occurred when the maximum temperature was $10{\sim}200^{\circ}C$, when the relative humidity was 40~60%, and when the average wind speed was under 2m/s. And forest fires mainly occurred at 2~3 day after rainfall.
Keywords
Forest fire; Jeollanam-Do; Meteorological factor; Forest fire characteristics;
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