Investigation over a national meteorological fire danger approach for Turkey with geographic information systems

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Yamak, Çağatay

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The aim of this study was to investigate Meteorological Fire Danger Indices for Turkey. A number of internationally implemented fire danger indices were calculated with Fire Danger Processing software and their performances were tested with Mandallaz and Ye’s Performance Score Method. As a result, among other meteorological fire danger indices that have been applied by several fire fighting administrations and services, the U.S. National Fire Danger Rating System, Mc.Arthur’s Fuel Moisture Model and Forest Fire Weather Index, BEHAVE Fine Fuel Moisture Model and Keetch Byram Drought Index, the Canadian Fire Weather Index was selected as the best performing fire danger index for Turkey. Calibrated with monthly fire history data of the last 5 years’ records, the results during the determined fire season were integrated with vegetation cover data for Turkey, derived from GLC 2000 global land cover data. Besides, daily performance of the Canadian Fire Weather Index was observed by three consecutive days in August 2006 and the outcomes were evaluated with the information about fire events compiled from newspaper archives. The study is a first attempt for further fire related analysis at the national scale; an attempt to establish an early warning system and a spatial base for mitigation effort for the wild fire phenomenon in Turkey.

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Natural Disasters.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608030/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/16218

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Ç. Yamak, “Investigation over a national meteorological fire danger approach for Turkey with geographic information systems,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2006.