Tag: Series: Water extinguishes fire but how does fire affect water?
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Water extinguishes fire, but how does fire affect water? (Part 2 of 2)
By Brandon Ertis . . . Last week, we introduced our research topic and question (i.e., how does fire impact water?), identified relevant data sources, and determined our pre- and post-fire precipitation events. Following that, we assembled hourly streamflow data from the USGS gages1 and aligned the flows to the start of each precipitation event…
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Water extinguishes fire, but how does fire affect water? (Part 1 of 2)
By Brandon Ertis . . . Wildfires in California are increasing in frequency and intensity, resulting in a greater extent of areas being directly burned or otherwise impacted in recent years. I work for a water resources consulting firm called Davids Engineering (DE), and we have an office in Chico in the beautiful Sacramento Valley.…