Modelling the Impacts of Wildfire on Ash Thickness in a Short‐Term Period

• DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2195
• Publication Date: 2012-11-30T05:38:30Z
• Authors: P. Pereira; A. Cerdà; X. Úbeda; J. Mataix‐Solera; V. Arcenegui; L. M. Zavala
• Keywords: 13. Climate action; 0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries; 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences; 15. Life on land

Abstract Ash can provide valuable soil protection. However, ash is also very mobile, and protection patterns be quickly changed, favouring the of some areas exposing others with implications for erosion. In this research, effects a high severity wildfire on thickness were studied, 1 15 days after fire. For evaluation, several interpolation methods tested to identify best spatial predictor distribution. The results showed that day fire, was thinner in areas. Fifteen decreased, pattern changed. This implies evaluation fire based must take place immediately because it affected by (re)distribution. There an increase autocorrelation, distribution corresponded specific pattern, wind One most accurate Inverse Weight 3 (IDW3) detected easily small‐scale variability thickness, days, ordinary kriging identified Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.