Contribution to the Study of Forest Fires in Semi-Arid Regions with the Use of Canadian Fire Weather Index Application in Greece

Forest fires are of critical importance in the Mediterranean region. Fire weather indices meteorological that produce information about impact as well characteristics a fire event an ecosystem and have been developed for reason. This study explores spatiotemporal patterns FWI system within area defined by boundaries Greek state. The has calculated studied current future periods using data from CFSR reanalysis model National Centers Environmental Protection (NCEP) NASA satellite programs European Commission Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECWMF) form netCDF files. calculation processing results were conducted Python programming language, additional drought- fire-related calculated, such standardized precipitation index (SPI), number consecutive 50-day dry (Dry50), Fosberg (FFWI), days where exceeds values 40 50 (FWI > 40) (days 50). Similar can easily be noted all seem to their higher concentrated southeast country owing temperatures more frequent drought events affect indices’ behavior both periods.