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Furthering our understanding of the global patterns of burnt area, fire size and fire intensity
By Olivia Haas and Natalie Sanders Wildfires are a fundamental ecological process but studying wildfire patterns and properties at a global scale is challenging. However, understanding wildfire processes is essential to fully describe global vegetation distribution and structure. In addition to temperature and precipitation, vegetation can both influence and be influenced by wildfire regimes. A […]
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Climate drivers of wildfire burned area across the globe
By Dr Manolis Grillakis, Technical University of Crete Meteorological conditions are a key driver of wildfire activity and extent, which led to the emergence of the use of fire danger indices that depend on weather conditions. The Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) is one of them. In this project, we evaluated how well the FWI, […]
