IA 5.4. Piloting models for fire combustion and Pyrocumulonimbus with use of HR data

OVERVIEW

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What kind of result is this?	New method
What’s the area addressed?	Advanced Technology Solutions Emergency management
What’s the covered phase?	Prevention & Preparedness
What’s the addressed challenge?	Advancing physical modeling of wildfires
What value is proposed?	Studying extreme fire behaviour by precise fuel and combustion modelling. Modelling fire phenomena from micro scale to local scale. Looking at how combustion is modelled in the existing regional forest fire models: What is missing or what assumptions limit the fire so that they do not predict extreme fires? Looking at the combustion of different forest materials, and how it is affected by humidity, initial temperature, wind speed, and fuel composition and amount, and how much worse it can get if there is a downward flow condition. How much worse the momentary thermal stress on e.g., buildings comes in an extreme fire situation and whether there is any possibility to be protected from it.
Who can use it?	Researchers
What type of tool is it?	Modelling method
How does it look like?	Report
This tool is…	☐ a new tool	☐ an improved tool
What are the vision & mission statement?	Better understanding of extreme fire phenomena and better modelling and forecasting abilities.
When will it be complete?	Early 2025
Documentation	TBA
This IA is implemented in the Living Lab(s)…	Bulgaria, Galicia, Germany-The Netherlands, Portugal, Canary Islands, Chile, Greece, Norway-Sweden, Sardinia

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