PhD scholar CoEDMM, IIT Roorkee

Forest fire early warning for the Himalaya

Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling, fire weather indices and climate projections for the Indian Himalayan Region.

Model
WRF-SFIRE
Index
Fire Weather Index
Scenarios
CMIP6
01 Research focus

Three lines of work

Current focus of the PhD work. The illustrations are schematic, not data.

01

Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling

WRF-SFIRE simulations of fire spread under Himalayan terrain and weather.

02

Fire weather index over the Northwest Himalaya

Numerical weather prediction based assessment of fire weather conditions over the forests of the Indian Himalayan Region.

03

Climate projections

CMIP6 scenarios used to estimate future fire-weather conditions.

Research interests

  • Forest fire modelling
  • Numerical weather prediction model
  • Fire weather severity and indices
  • Weather and climate change induced disasters
02 At a glance

Work so far

0Workshops and lectures
0Conference presentations
0Journal articles published
0PMRF fellow since
03 Pages

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