Current research issues related to post-wildfire runoff and erosion processes

JA Moody, RA Shakesby, PR Robichaud… - Earth-science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Research into post-wildfire effects began in the United States more than 70years ago and
only later extended to other parts of the world. Post-wildfire responses are typically transient …

Wildfire effects on water quality in forest catchments: A review with implications for water supply

HG Smith, GJ Sheridan, PNJ Lane, P Nyman… - Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Wildfires burn extensive forest areas around the world each year. In many locations, fire-
prone forest catchments are utilised for the supply of potable water to small communities up …

Fire and soils: Key concepts and recent advances

A Bento-Gonçalves, A Vieira, X Úbeda, D Martin - Geoderma, 2012 - Elsevier
It is clear that, in some climates, fires are a natural phenomenon, they have occurred for
millennia and plants have revealed the capacity to cope with them (Pausas et al., 2008). It is …

Challenges of assessing fire and burn severity using field measures, remote sensing and modelling

P Morgan, RE Keane, GK Dillon, TB Jain… - … Journal of Wildland …, 2014 - CSIRO Publishing
Comprehensive assessment of ecological change after fires have burned forests and
rangelands is important if we are to understand, predict and measure fire effects. We …

Does soil burn severity affect the post-fire runoff and interrill erosion response? A review based on meta-analysis of field rainfall simulation data

DCS Vieira, C Fernández, JA Vega, JJ Keizer - Journal of Hydrology, 2015 - Elsevier
Soil burn severity has been widely used to describe the impacts of fire on soils and is
increasingly being recognised as a decisive factor controlling post-fire erosion rates …

Identifying individual rain events from pluviograph records: a review with analysis of data from an Australian dryland site

D Dunkerley - Hydrological Processes: An International Journal, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Rainfall is routinely reported as falling in 'events' or 'storms' whose beginning and end are
defined by rainless intervals of a nominated duration (minimum inter‐event time, MIT). Rain …

Movement of sediment through a burned landscape: Sediment volume observations and model comparisons in the San Gabriel Mountains, California, USA

FK Rengers, LA McGuire, JW Kean… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Post‐wildfire changes to hydrologic and geomorphic systems can lead to widespread
sediment redistribution. Understanding how sediment moves through a watershed is crucial …

[PDF][PDF] Assessing water contamination risk from vegetation fires: Challenges, opportunities and a framework for progress

JP Nunes, SH Doerr, G Sheridan, J Neris… - Hydrological …, 2018 - repositorio.ul.pt
Water crises—defined as significant declines in water quality and quantity—top the global
risks list compiled by the World Economic Forum (2015) that have the greatest potential …

Model simulations of flood and debris flow timing in steep catchments after wildfire

FK Rengers, LA McGuire, JW Kean… - Water Resources …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Debris flows are a typical hazard on steep slopes after wildfire, but unlike debris flows that
mobilize from landslides, most postwildfire debris flows are generated from water runoff. The …

WEPPcloud: An online watershed-scale hydrologic modeling tool. Part I. Model description

R Lew, M Dobre, A Srivastava, ES Brooks, WJ Elliot… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
We developed a new online interface for the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP)
model (WEPPcloud) with a framework that allows the incorporation and development of …