Pyregence: Free and open access to the next generation of wildfire risk models for electricity grid resiliency
Abstract
Wildfire threats in California are ever increasing with substantial changes in fire behaviour driven by higher fuel loads, more frequent extreme weather events and continued human development in the wildland urban interface. Organizations across the State need better operational and strategic information to understand changing wildfire risks and implement effective risk transfer measures. Access to this critical information is blocked by multiple barriers including fragmented silos of science and technology and black box software often behind paywalls.
The Pyregence Consortium aims to provide access to a free and open source platform that will serve wildfire hazard and risk forecast information based on the next generation of wildfire models. The Consortium will use best in practice science and technology to forecast high spatial resolution wildfire conditions for electric utilities along near- and long-term time horizons. Wildfire scenario analyses will be produced to inform future wildfire risk and California's 5th Climate Change Assessment. The `open source' collaboration brings together initiatives and leading researchers from 18 institutions representing industry, academia, and government in an effort to transform how wildfire mitigation and adaptation measures are implemented across California.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020AGUFMNH0320013S
- Keywords:
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- 1640 Remote sensing;
- GLOBAL CHANGE;
- 1817 Extreme events;
- HYDROLOGY;
- 4333 Disaster risk analysis and assessment;
- NATURAL HAZARDS;
- 6309 Decision making under uncertainty;
- POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES