Description of the Indices Implemented in EUDIC Software for the European Meteorological Forest Fire Risk Mapping. Camia, A. & Bovio, G. European Commission, Joint Research Centre.
Description of the Indices Implemented in EUDIC Software for the European Meteorological Forest Fire Risk Mapping [pdf]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
EUDIC is a software developed in the frame of a collaboration between the Department AGROSELVITER of the University of Turin and the Space Application Institute of the Joint Research Centre. The software is aimed to compute daily a number of meteorological fire danger indices in Europe, using as input either measured meteorological data from the MARS database or forecasted weather data from MeteoFrance. The output are raster maps of the European Mediterranean basin or other portions of the European territory, showing the spatial distribution of the fire danger level in a given day, segmented into 5 classes. The aim of this report is to provide a synthetic description, including main formulas, algorithms and references, of the meteorological fire danger indices implemented in EUDIC. Notice that the thresholds used to segment the indices and define the mentioned 5 classes of meteorological fire danger level are not reported here. The indices are named as it follows: Portuguese Index ICONA Method Drouet-Sol Numerical Risk Italian Fire Danger Index Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) Fine Fuel Moisture Code (FFMC) Duff Moisture Code (DMC) Drought Code (DC) Initial Spread Index (ISI) Build Up Index (BUI) BEHAVE Dead Fine Fuel Moisture Content To simplify the reading of the document, a common frame to illustrate the indices has been established, covering for each index the following issues: 1. Description: brief description of the index 2. Reference: main reference from which the equations were taken 3. Inputs required: meteorological variables and unit measures needed to compute the index 4. Basic equations: formulas and algorithms

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