Sentences with phrase «fire weather season»

The results show fire weather season length is significantly correlated with the amount of land scorched by fires each year in all eight countries they analysed: Canada, US, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Greece and Latvia.

Maps show a) Changes in fire weather season length (in days per year), and b) Changes areas experiencing «long» fire weather seasons (in percent).

Global patterns of fire weather season length changes from 1979 to 2013.

Fire weather season length and long fire weather season affected area increased significantly across all continents except Australia (Table 1).

South America's tropical and subtropical forests, grasslands and savannas have experienced tremendous fire weather season length changes, with a median increase of 33 days over the last 35 years (Fig. 3a and Table 6).

Generally, low correlations between fire weather season length and global land carbon uptake are to be expected because wildfires represent a small proportion of the total land carbon flux.

This metric was examined to identify global and regional patterns in fire weather season length changes as well as changes in the frequency of, and the area affected by, long fire weather seasons (defined as > 1.0 σ above historical mean) over the last 35 years.

Fire weather season length and long fire weather season affected area significantly increased across all vegetated continents except Australia.

Long fire weather season affected area, defined as the total global area observing fire weather seasons > 1 s.d. from the mean, has increased by 3.1 % per year from 1979 to 2013, leading to a 108.1 % increase in global long fire weather season affected area (Fig. 2b).

Nonetheless, our global fire weather season length metrics were significantly correlated to global net land carbon flux.

Inter-annual variations in mean US fire weather season length were significantly correlated with variation in annual burned area reported by the US National Interagency Fire Center44 over the full time series from 1979 to 2013 and also from 1992 to 2013, when fire occurrence data quality was highest45 (ρ = 0.679 and 0.683, respectively, P < 0.001).

Annual fire weather season length anomaly maps for a subset of known severe fire years are presented in Fig. 4 and anomalies for all years are presented in Supplementary Figs 1 — 4 and annual ensemble - mean anomaly data are available as Supplementary Data 1.

In addition, our fire weather season length metric captures variations in the number of days each year that fires are likely to burn, but it does not account for inter-annual variations in fire season severity.

This is consistent with a lengthening of the fire weather season in Spain during 2012 (Fig. 4, 2012) where fires burned more area than any year in the previous decade49.

Continent × biome trends indicate that regional variations in fire weather season metrics were much stronger than global trends (Table 3).

Our ensemble fire weather season length metric captured important wildfire events throughout Eurasia such as the Indonesian fires of 1997 — 98 where peat fires, following an El Niño - induced drought, released carbon equivalent to 13 — 40 % of the global fossil fuel emissions from only 1.4 % of the global vegetated land area (Fig. 4, 1997 — 1998) 46 and the heatwave over Western Russia in 2010 (Fig. 4, 2010) that led to its worst fire season in recorded history and triggered extreme air pollution in Moscow51.

Fire weather season length and long fire weather season affected area were only weakly correlated to Canadian boreal forest burned area (Table 4).

In addition, when correlations were constrained to the time period that satellite burned area observations were available from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)(2001 - 2012), and thus where estimates of land - use change carbon emissions were more certain2, correlations between fire weather season length, long fire season affected area and net land carbon fluxes increased substantially to ρ = − 0.797 and ρ = − 0.825, respectively, n = 12, P < 0.01).

Because climate studies using multi-model ensembles are generally superior to single model approaches43, all nine fire weather season lengths for each location were averaged into an ensemble mean fire weather season length, hereafter referred to as «Fire Weather Season Length» (See Supplementary Methods).

Future work should examine relationships between provincial fire activity and fire weather season metrics.

Our results extend these findings by demonstrating that areas with the most significant change in fire weather season length occur where not only temperature but also changes in humidity, length of rain - free intervals and wind speeds are most pronounced.

Likewise, fire weather season length and long fire weather season affected area were significantly correlated with global net land carbon flux calculated from an analysis of the global carbon budget from 1979 to 2012 (ref.

In addition, our results show significant fire weather season lengthening throughout much of the Eastern US Coastal Plains.

Both mean fire weather season length and long fire weather season affected area, constrained to only boreal forests where most Canadian fires occur, were only weakly correlated to burned area across Canadian forests (ρ = 0.3 and 0.324, respectively, P < 0.1)(Table 4 and Supplementary Fig. 5).

The highest correlations between the net land carbon flux and continental biome mean fire weather season metrics were observed in the tropical and subtropical forests, grasslands and savannas and xeric shrublands of South America where regional fire weather season length metrics accounted for between 15.7 and 29.7 % of the variations in global net land carbon flux (Table 5).

Further, long fire weather season affected area was also significantly correlated to the burnt area variations of the full and limited time series (ρ = 0.663 and 0.715, respectively, P < 0.001)(Table 4 and Supplementary Fig. 5).

Globally, most biomes showed significant increases in fire weather season metrics with the exceptions of temperate and montane grasslands, savannas and shrublands and boreal forests / taiga and tundra (Table 2).

Moreover, fire weather season has grown in duration by almost 19 % worldwide.

The frequency of long fire weather seasons increased across 53.4 % of the global vegetated area (62.4 M km2) as observed between 1996 and 2013, compared with 1979 — 1996, with decreased frequency only observed across 34.6 % (40.4 M km2)(Fig. 3b).

(b) Total global annual area affected by long fire weather seasons (> 1σ of historical mean).

We show that fire weather seasons have lengthened across 29.6 million km2 (25.3 %) of the Earth's vegetated surface, resulting in an 18.7 % increase in global mean fire weather season length.

50) lengthened fire weather seasons in the West African subtropics.

b shows regions that have experienced changes in the frequency of long fire weather seasons (> 1σ above historical mean) during the second half of the study period (1996 — 2013) compared with the number of events observed during the first half (1979 — 1996).

These correlations were negative, suggesting that when average fire weather seasons are longer - than - normal or when long seasons impacted more global burnable area, net global terrestrial carbon uptake is reduced.

Our metric captured a rare drought in the Amazon in 2005 that prompted long fire weather seasons, leading to a dramatic increase in basin - wide fire activity58 (Fig. 4, 2005).

We also show a doubling (108.1 % increase) of global burnable area affected by long fire weather seasons (> 1.0 σ above the historical mean) and an increased global frequency of long fire weather seasons across 62.4 million km2 (53.4 %) during the second half of the study period.

Reds indicate areas where fire weather seasons have lengthened or long fire weather seasons have become more frequent.

Blues indicate areas where fire weather seasons have shortened or long fire weather seasons have become less frequent.

In contrast to all other continents in our analysis, Australia showed no significant trends in biome - level fire season length, but we identified regional increases in the frequency of anomalously long fire weather seasons, especially from 1996 to 2013 (Fig. 3b).

In 2012, for example, longer - than - normal fire weather seasons across an unprecedented 47.4 % of the vegetated area of the US (Fig. 4, 2012) culminated in a near - record setting ∼ 3.8 MHa of burned area.

We also show a doubling (108.1 % increase) of global burnable area affected by long fire weather seasons (> 1.0 σ above the historical mean) and an increased global frequency of long fire weather seasons across 62.4 million km2 (53.4 %) during the second half of the study period.

We show that fire weather seasons have lengthened across 29.6 million km2 (25.3 %) of the Earth's vegetated surface, resulting in an 18.7 % increase in global mean fire weather season length.

Not exact matches

Further work should consider both a lengthening fire season and an increase in within - season fire weather severity as causal mechanisms of burned area variations.

Chuck Maxwell is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service meteorologist based in Albuquerque whose job is to make predictions for fire seasons ahead, based on weather forecasts and ground conditions and past experience.

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