24 March 2025 | 08:00 - 10:00 (MST)
Open Session - HYBRID
Room: UMC Fourth Floor - 415
Session Co-leads / moderators: Katriina Veijola (Finnish Meteorological Institute / Finland); Anni Kröger (Finnish Meteorological Institute / Finland), Joonas Kolstela (Finnish Meteorological Institute / Finland)
Event Description:
The session will provide up to date information about wildfire issues in the Arctic Passion, CryoScope-, and Finnish IBA Wildfire projects.
A new Finnish IBA Wildfire and trafficability project for SAV phase 4 continues working with Wildfire theme in Finland and develops the ignition identification SAV towards implementation via a demonstration in the Nordic countries. Previous phases were successful and formed a definition of a Wildfire Shared Arctic Variables with the help of experts on wildfire, including Indigenous Peoples.
Arctic PASSION (Pan-Arctic observing System of Systems: Implementing Observations for societal Needs) is a Horizon 2020 project that strives to rise to the scientific and societal challenges of Arctic climate change through the co-creation of a comprehensive, coordinated, and coherent Arctic Observing System of Systems. In addition, there are Shared Arctic Variables (SAVs) defined to several themes to be able to deal with different phenomenon in the Arctic, for example wildfire. The Finnish Wildfire work has contributed to the SAV work in Arctic PASSION project and now the Wildfire Expert Panel work is proceeding in North America as well.
Cryo-Scope project is an inland-ice and snow focused Horizon Europe action that starts in February 2025. While the new Finnish IBA project focuses on summer trafficability to estimate soil and vegetation wetness, Cryo-Scope will develop winter trafficability and allows a service for trafficability all year round. It also improves the estimation of snow and ice water resources connected with seasonal drought forecasts. This component can also be useful for long-term preparedness for wildfires.
The session would contain the following presentations:
- Arctic PASSION project actions on a Wildfire SAV (Katriina Veijola, FMI)
- North American Wildfire Expert Panel status in Arctic PASSION project (Chris Waigl, University of Alaska Fairbanks)
- Connection between accessibility of the terrain and wildfire risk: Contribution from CryoScope project and Presenting the new Finnish Wildfire SAV phase 4 -project (Mikko Strahlendorff, FMI)
- Water in your boots? Demonstration of the mobile app for the Finnish Wildfire SAV phase 4 -project (Miska Kauppinen, Spatineo)
- Understanding fine-scale wildfire risk: fire spread and microclimate modelling tools for better estimations (Joonas Kolstela FMI)
- How to measure the socio-economic benefits of terrain moisture information? (Enni Lehtinen FMI)
- Discussion of interested parties in North America to set up a terrain trafficability/wildfire related demonstration and prepare for an ignition identification SAV implementation
AGENDA
8:00 – 8:05
Welcome & introductions
Session co-leads (5 min)
8:05 – 8:20
Arctic PASSION project actions on a Wildfire SAV
Katriina Veijola, FMI (15 min)
8:20 – 8:35
North American Wildfire Expert Panel status in Arctic PASSION project
Chris Waigl, University of Alaska Fairbanks (20 min)
8:35 – 8:55
Connection between accessibility of the terrain and wildfire risk: Contribution from CryoScope project & Presenting the new Finnish Wildfire SAV phase 4 –project
Mikko Strahlendorff, FMI (15 min)
8:55 – 9:05
Water in your boots? Demonstration of the mobile app for the Finnish Wildfire SAV phase 4 –project
Miska Kauppinen, Spatineo (10 min)
9:05 – 9:20
Understanding fine-scale wildfire risk: fire spread and microclimate modelling tools for better estimations
Joonas Kolstela, FMI (15 min)
9:20 – 9:35
How to measure the socio-economic benefits of terrain moisture information?
Enni Lehtinen, FMI (15 min)
9:35 – 10:00
Discussion of interested parties in North America to set up a terrain trafficability/wildfire related demonstration and prepare for an ignition identification SAV implementation & Closing remarks
Open discussion (25 min)