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ALP FFIRS
Alpine Forest FIre waRning System
- AS priority area: Environment and Risk Prevention
- Duration: 01/09/2009 - 31/10/2012
Project Partners
- Lead partner: Regional Agency for Environmental Protection of Piedmont - Forecasting Dept.
Project summary
“The project ALP FFIRS aims to improve forest fire prevention in the Alpine Space with the creation of a shared warning system based on weather condition affecting fire potential. The main goal is the development of a decision support tool for actors involved in forest fire prevention and suppression, consisting in a daily fire danger level assessment and forecast to identify critical periods in advance of their potential occurrence. Major target is the univocal European Forest Fire Danger Scale definition and common danger level interpretation with resulting preparedness plans and operational procedures. Mutual aid in vigilance and extinction procedures will be defined. An Alpine network on forest fire impact mitigation will be assembled reflecting common political strategy in prevention management, also in relation to climate change affecting fire potential. The project allows modulation and coordination of alerting process and means dislocation in different countries as well as mutual aid protocol adoption.” Source: ALP FFIRS project summary
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Project results
| Result | Category | Language(s) | Target group | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unique shared Alpine Forest Fire Danger Scale | Indicator | SI, IT, FR, EN, DE, CH | Decision makers, Civil servants / administration, Planners, Scientists, Specific institutions, Civil society / citizen, Project stakeholders | Definition of an single fire danger scale in Alpine Space |
| Final Booklet | Report | SI, IT, EN, DE | Decision makers, Civil servants / administration, Planners, Scientists, Specific institutions, Civil society / citizen, Project stakeholders, JTS | Includes main results of the project: common system for forest fire danger rating and warning in the Alps, regional climate scenarios and statistical study about, |
| Alpine Forest Fire Glossary | Guidelines | EN, FR, IT, DE, SI | Decision makers, Civil servants / administration, Planners, Scientists, Specific institutions, Civil society / citizen, Project stakeholders, JTS | Includes terms about forest fire, both technical and generic terms also about different field connected with forest fire, as meteorology, divided for thematic |
| ALPFFIRS Recommendations | Recommandation (policy) | IT, EN, SI, DE, FR | Decision makers, Civil servants / administration, Planners, Specific institutions, Civil society / citizen, Project stakeholders | Institutional reccomendations |
| Analysis of case studies | Analysis & Data | EN | Decision makers, Civil servants / administration, Planners, Scientists, Specific institutions, Civil society / citizen, Project stakeholders, JTS | During the project, the case studies concerning signifi cant fi res were described using a standard card, derived from the Fire Paradox and MANFRED projects, |
| ALPFFIRS Brochure | Public relation | SI, IT, FR, EN, DE | Decision makers, Civil servants / administration, Planners, Scientists, Specific institutions, Civil society / citizen, Project stakeholders, JTS | A synthesis of the project and main results |
| Projection of fire potential to future climate scenarios in the Alpine area | implementation plan | EN | Scientists | Scientific paper with methodological considerations |
| Statistical description of the datasets : weather | Indicator | EN | Scientists | Fire weather indice |
| Fire conditions Weather index | Indicator | EN | Scientists | Relationships on fires occurrences and burnt areas to weather indices were studied for a period of 1995-2009 |
| Wildfires in the Alpine region: first results from the ALP FFIRS project | Conference proceedings | EN | Scientists | Paper for 5th International Wildland Fire Conference (South Africa) summarizing the firs results of the project |
| Potential Fire Intensities in the Alpine Region based on characteristic fuels in Austria and Italy | Conference proceedings | EN | Scientists | Fire intensities custom fuel models of vegetation types, with special importance to local fire managers |
| Climate change impact on meteorological forest fire danger in the Alpine region | Conference proceedings | EN | Scientists | Paper for European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011 |
| Regional climate model downscaling with Multimodel SuperEnsemble in the Alpine area and wildfire potential evaluation in the scenario | Conference proceedings | EN | Scientists | Paper for European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011 |
| Climate change impacts on forest fires in the Alpine region | Conference proceedings | EN | Scientists | Paper for VI International Conference on Forest Fire Research 2010 |