Fires in Spain

 Fires inSpain

25 July 2005

GFMC summary: 

The provincial government of Valencia declared level 3 for fire risk alert, which means extreme fire danger for the interior of the province of Valencia and the north of Alicante. Steady winds from the south-west and temperatures up to 39°C are expected for today.

The Spanish Government announced the declaration of the area affected by a forest fire that caused the death of 11 fire fighters near Guadalajara as disaster area. The fire destroyed more than 12 000 hectares (ha) of pine woodland east of Madrid.

Latest satellite scenes showing fires and fire affected areas in Central Spain:

On  25 July 2005, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured a view of the forest fires (marked in red) that were burning at several locations in drought struck Spain.


AQUA
24 July 2005
13:05 hrs UTC
(Image courtesy MODIS)


True colour: Bands 1-4-3


False Colour: Bands 7-2-1

The links provide a 500mresolution for both scenes

The left  image  is a photo-like image in naturalcolours, while the right image has been enhanced by including MODIS’observations of infrared light. In the false colour scene, vegetation is brightgreen, clouds are light blue, and the burned area is magenta. Bright pinkindicates areas that were actively flaming at the time.

For more details see also:

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI):

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)on NASA’s Aqua satellitealso enhanced the previous image from the 24 July 2005 by including theNormalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) which is strongly correlated tosurface temperatures and surface moisture status.


Click on scene for a 2km resolution

ECPC Fire Weather Forecast: 

The GFMC displays selected and daily updated  Experimental ClimatePrediction Center (ECPC)  Fire Weather Forecasts for Europe. Theseexamples allow a quicklook and provide daily and weekly total forecasts. Forbackground information refer to the ECPCproducts description page.


FWI forecast for the next week


Precipitation amount forecast for the next week


Surface temperatures forecast for the next week


Relative humidity forecast for the next week

(Source: ECPCFire Weather Index Forecast)

Theforecast indicates no extreme fire danger for Central Spain and the Pre-Pyrenees. Thecurrent fire danger, however, is due to unusually high day temperatures, lowprecipitation and low relative humidity

Satellite-derived vegetation health map:


The general stress situation ishigher this year as comparedto 2004.
(Source: NOAA/NESDISCurrent Vegetation Health Image Maps)

For moredetails on fires in Spain:

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