First Forecast Calls for Mild Amazon Fire Season 2012 (Ricky Patel)

First Forecast Calls for Mild Amazon Fire Season in 2012

05.10.12

 

Forests in the Amazon Basin are expected to be less vulnerable to wildfires this year, according to the first forecast from a new fire severity model developed by university and NASA researchers.

Fire season across most of the Amazon rain forest typically begins in May, peaks in September and ends in January. The new model, which forecasts the fire season’s severity from three to nine months in advance, calls for an average or below-average fire season this year within 10 regions spanning three countries: Bolivia, Brazil and Peru.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/fires/main/mild-amazon.html