[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 …

Predicting wildfire induced changes to runoff: A review and synthesis of modeling approaches

D Partington, M Thyer, M Shanafield… - Wiley …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires elicit a diversity of hydrological changes, impacting processes that drive both water
quantity and quality. As wildfires increase in frequency and severity, there is a need to …

Evaluation and comparison of Landsat 8, Sentinel-2 and Deimos-1 remote sensing indices for assessing burn severity in Mediterranean fire-prone ecosystems

P García-Llamas, S Suárez-Seoane… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The development of improved spatial and spectral resolution sensors provides new
opportunities to assess burn severity more accurately. This study evaluates the ability of …

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 …

Prioritising fuels reduction for water supply protection

BM Gannon, Y Wei, LH MacDonald… - … Journal of Wildland …, 2019 - CSIRO Publishing
Concerns over wildfire impacts to water supplies have motivated efforts to mitigate risk by
reducing forest fuels. Methods to assess fuel treatment effects and prioritise their placement …

Evaluation of the rusle and disturbed wepp erosion models for predicting soil loss in the first year after wildfire in NW Spain

C Fernández, JA Vega - Environmental Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Severe fire greatly increases soil erosion rates and overland-flow in forest land. Soil erosion
prediction models are essential for estimating fire impacts and planning post-fire emergency …

[HTML][HTML] Water quality and forest restoration in the Lake Tahoe basin: impacts of future management options

M Dobre, JW Long, C Maxwell, WJ Elliot… - Ecology and …, 2022 - ecologyandsociety.org
Land managers in the Lake Tahoe basin are considering increasing the use of prescribed
fire and forest thinning to restore conditions that will be more resilient to wildfires. However …

Particle motion on burned and vegetated hillslopes

DL Roth, TH Doane, JJ Roering… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Climate change is causing increasingly widespread, frequent, and intense wildfires across
the western United States. Many geomorphic effects of wildfire are relatively well studied, yet …

PFHydro: a new watershed-scale model for post-fire runoff simulation

J Wang, MA Stern, VM King, CN Alpers… - … Modelling & Software, 2020 - Elsevier
Runoff increases after wildfires that burn vegetation and create a condition of soil-water
repellence (SWR). A new post-fire watershed hydrological model, PFHydro, was created to …

Spatial simulation of forest road effects on hydrology and soil erosion after a wildfire

L Cao, W Elliot, JW Long - Hydrological Processes, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Post‐fire catchment and water utility managers throughout the world use predictive models
to estimate potential erosion risks to aid in evaluating downstream impacts of increased …