Avialesookhrana
from the National Forest Fire Centre of Russia provides up-to-date NOAA images
for the whole of the Russian Federation and neighbour territories. The Space Monitoring Information Support
Laboratory provides extensive links to sites with satellite imagery for the Russian
Federation, meteorological information as well as fire related images are accessible.
The NOAA AVHRR satellite image composite of 25 July 2001 shows fire activities in the
Russian Federation.
NOAA 12 & 14 AVHRR composite of 25 July 2001, 03:00 GMT.
The red squares indicate regions of active fires. For details the GFMC readers are
encouraged to
use the hyperlinks provided by Avialesookhrana, the Aerial Forest Fire Protection Service
of the
Federal Forest service of Russia. (Source: Avialesookhrana cloudiness maps)
According to the situation report of the Ministry of Natural Resources of 22 July 2001 a total of 282 fires affected 6,203 ha forested and 1,898 ha non-forested areas. Since the beginning of the 2001 fire season a total of 12,653 fires affected 229,627 ha forested and 104,853 ha non-forested land. Highest fire activities on 22 July occurred in Iakuteia (41 fires), Komi -59, Arkhangelsk –93. There were 41 large fires in Iakuteia region affecting 4,093 ha, 93 fires in Arkhangelsk region affecting 1,230ha, 59 large fires in Komi region (the largest is 164 ha).
(SOURCE: Yevgheny Shuktomov, Aerial Forest Fire Protection Service Avialesookhrana )
Eurasian Experimental Fire Weather
Information System
The system has been developed by forest fire researchers from Canada, Russia and Germany
is displayed on this website starting 18 July 2001. Complete information and a set of
daily fire weather and fire behaviour potential maps covering Eurasia (the Baltic Region,
Eastern Europe, countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Mongolia) can be
accessed at:
http://www.uni-freiburg.de/fireglobe/fwf/eurasia.htm
Figure 1. Example of the Eurasian
Experimental Fire Weather Information System:
The Experimental Fire Weather Index (FWI) for Russia and neighbouring countries, 24 July
2001.
Two true-color images on large outbreak of fires near Yakutsk, Russia, acquired by the
Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on 20 July 2001 in two consecutive
overpasses occurring at 2:40 and 4:15 UTC. Locations of the forest fires are indicated by
red boxes.
(Source: Nasa´s
Earthobservatory)
For more background information on the Russian Federation see: Recent Media Highlights on Fire, Policies, and Politics
For more details on fire in the Russian Federation, Mongolia and China: See IFFN Country Notes. Scientific details on fire in the Russian Federation are provided by the Fire Research Campaign Asia-North (FIRESCAN) report.
Bibliography on fire in ecosystems of boreal Eurasia:
One of the results of the first international fire science conference in the
Russian Federation (1993) was the publication of a monograph on fire in boreal Eurasia,
including some selected contributions on boreal North America. The literature cited in the
monograph contains numerous publications which in many cases are not easily accessible. To
facilitate literature search the bibliographical sources are provided by topic (chapter).
Goldammer, J.G. and V.V.Furyaev. 1996. Fire
in Ecosystems of Boreal Eurasia. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 390 p.