IRIS Fire Spread Forecasts - Fire Season 2019 - Greece
Creators: name: Giannaros, Theodore
name: Lagouvardos, Konstantinos
name: Kotroni, Vassiliki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: fire spread
wildfires
fire season 2019
Greece
WRF-Fire
National Observatory of Athens

description: Named under a messenger goddess of the Greek mythology, <strong>IRIS</strong> is a<strong> rapid-response fire spread forecasting system</strong> that was developed at the <strong>National Observatory of Athens</strong>, Greece, with the aim to support to the operational firefighting activities of the <strong>Hellenic Fire Corps</strong>. The system is based on an advanced <strong>coupled fire-atmosphere modelling system</strong> and is able to provide <strong>ultra-high-resolution</strong> (100 x 100 m<sup>2</sup>) 24 h fire spread forecasts in less than 60 minutes following its activation (<em>Giannaros et al., 2019</em>). IRIS was pre-operationally deployed and calibrated during the 2018 fire season in Greece (<em>Giannaros et al., 2019</em>). During the <strong>2019 fire season</strong>, the system was operationally deployed and provided fire spread forecast guidance for <strong>17 wildfire events </strong>in total. This repository provides <strong>open access </strong>to the <strong>Google Earth KMZ</strong> files of the <strong>24 h fire spread forecasts</strong> produced by IRIS during the <strong>2019 fire season</strong>. Out of the total 17 wildfires for which IRIS was activated, data are provided for the <strong>8 most significant events</strong> (see list below). For these events, the <strong>ignition locations</strong> and the<strong> final fire perimeters</strong>, retrieved from the <strong>European Forest Fire Information System </strong>(EFFIS; https://effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu) based on <strong>MODIS</strong> (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) Terra and Aqua satellite remote sensing data, are also provided. 2019 wildfires (ID: region, date, total burnt area): <strong>012019</strong>: Kastri (Phthiotis), 08/07/2019, 98 ha <strong>042019</strong>: Elafonissos (Laconia), 10/08/2019, 535 ha <strong>062019</strong>: Ymittos (Attica), 12/08/2019, 180 ha <strong>072019</strong>: Makrimalli (Euboea), 13/08/2019, 2,889 ha <strong>082019</strong>: Prodromos (Boetia), 13/08/2019, 735 ha <strong>112019</strong>: Mesokampos (Samos), 24/08/2019, 59 ha <strong>152019</strong>: Loutraki (Corinthia), 14/09/2019, 352 ha <strong>162019</strong>: Lithakia (Zakynthos), 15/09/2019, 919 ha Details: <strong>File format</strong>: Google Earth KMZ <strong>Coordinate system</strong>: World Geodetic System 1984 (also known as WGS 1984, EPSG:4326) <strong>Longitude range</strong>: N/A <strong>Latitude range</strong>: N/A <strong>Temporal resolution</strong>: 24 hours <strong>Spatial resolution</strong>: 100 m <strong>Spatial coverage</strong>: Greece <strong>Time span</strong>: May 1 to October 31 2019. <strong>Stream</strong>: IRIS rapid-response fire spread forecasting system (coupled WRF-Fire modelling system)
description: {"references": ["Giannaros TM, Kotroni V, Lagouvardos K (2019) IRIS - Rapid response fire spread forecasting system: Development, calibration and evaluation."]}