Development of the forest fire forecast method (a Case Study for the Far East)

Abstract

Presented are the first results of the development of long-range forecast of forest fire risk on the territory of the Russian Far East. Used are the main concepts presented in the papers of G.R. Bregman and B.M. Ginzburg. Forest fire risk parameters in Khabarovsk territory, Jewish autonomous region, and Amur region for the previous years are reconstructed using the heat-balance methods. Carried out is the first stage of the research based on the synoptic statistical method: the typical fields are singled out of meteorological variables in the troposphere and lower stratosphere in the midlatitudes of the Northern Hemisphere from the Azores to the Aleutian Islands. Presented is the automated system developed by the authors and separating these meteorological fields significant for the forecast of forest fire conditions on the vast territory.