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To manage page text for the European Climate Data Explorer being developed by the C3S 434 project.
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New Index: Fire Weather Index #32

Closed charliepascoe closed 3 years ago

charliepascoe commented 3 years ago

A new fire weather index which will be available soon

charliepascoe commented 3 years ago

Managed by @rolle001

charliepascoe commented 3 years ago

I think that the calculation for this index is essentially the same as for the existing fire weather index. The difference is that this dataset contains future projections of the fire weather index and that the data is presented in terms of the number of days per year (season?) when the fire weather index exceeds a specific danger threshold.

charliepascoe commented 3 years ago

From @martinjuckes email: We are dropping the "Fire Danger Index" from cems-fire-historical , which is based on the Australian system, to concentrate on the fire weather index from Canadian system which has been adopted for use in Europe.

The index from sis-tourism-fire-danger-indicators should use the "Number of days with high fire danger" and show an anomaly of the annual values in the scenario runs relative to 1986-2005 in the historical period. This uses the same risk evaluation system as the cems-fire-historical "Fire weather index" (https://c3s.maris.nl/forestry/fire-weather-indices.html ) , which we want to keep.

The use of "weather" versus "danger" in the names is arbitrary and confusing .. they are just different approaches to estimating the risk of forest fire.

charliepascoe commented 3 years ago

@rolle001 What threshold value of fire weather index are we using to calculate the number of days with high fire danger? and What time periods are we presenting the data for? Month, Season, Year?

charliepascoe commented 3 years ago

@rolle001 You can ignore that last lot of questions, I found the answer here https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/sis-tourism-fire-danger-indicators?tab=overview

charliepascoe commented 3 years ago

Markdown content https://github.com/cedadev/c3s_434_ecde_page_text/blob/main/content/markdown/consolidated/High_Fire_Danger%2C_1970-2098.md

charliepascoe commented 3 years ago

@sharppaul The new high fire danger index is in the latest update to the Consolidated.json https://github.com/cedadev/c3s_434_ecde_page_text/blob/main/content/json/Consolidated.json

sharppaul commented 3 years ago

Hi @charliepascoe

I'm getting a bit confused as to which index should be replaced by these texts. I assume its FireDangerIndex: https://c3s.maris.nl/forestry/fire-danger-indices.html (C3S_434_005)

My confusion is about whether or not this is already the correct Toolbox app, since I updated this one last week with.

Maybe @rolle001 can confirm or deny that. Since if that's the case, the Toolbox app only has options for years 1979-2019, and not 1970-2098.

Cheers,

charliepascoe commented 3 years ago

@sharppaul The old "fire weather index" and "fire danger index" were historical indices from 1979-2019. As far as I understand, neither of these are going to be included in the next release.

The new "high fire danger" index has a historical portion and future projections, the CDS page about this dataset says it goes from 1970-2098 so I used that to build the index name but I might need to change the time range when I see how it gets implemented in the maris portal

sharppaul commented 3 years ago

Alright, this cleared up some of my confusion.

I updated the Maris portal: https://c3s.maris.nl/forestry https://c3s.maris.nl/forestry/high-fire-danger.html https://c3s.maris.nl/forestry/high-fire-danger-detail.html

charliepascoe commented 3 years ago

@sharppaul can you add the high fire danger index to the tourism sector as well.

charliepascoe commented 3 years ago

At the progress meeting this morning we decided to adjust the title of this index to include "Fire Weather Index". We are also going to keep the historical fire weather index so we also need to make it clear in the title that the historical index is monthly mean data and the projected index is days above the danger threshold.

The titles for these indices are now: Fire Weather Index - Monthly Mean Fire Weather Index - Days With High Fire Danger

charliepascoe commented 3 years ago

These updates have been implemented in the demo portal