"Global wildfires" refers to large and widespread fires that occur in different parts of the world at the same time. These fires can impact various regions and can have severe consequences for both the environment and human lives.
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Tremendous amounts of soot, lofted into the air
from global wildfires following a massive asteroid strike 66 million years ago, would have plunged Earth into darkness for nearly two years, new research finds.
As such, leveraging well - established fire danger indices to explore changes in
global wildfire weather only capture part of the potential variations in global pyrogeography.
Climate strongly
influences global wildfire activity, and recent wildfire surges may signal fire weather - induced pyrogeographic shifts.
Talk by Mark Parrington, senior scientist for the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, on the implementation of
global wildfire data into the CAMS air quality forecasts.
Jolly, W.M. et al. (2015) Climate - induced variations in
global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013, Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038 / ncomms8537
Wendy Wolbach of DePaul University in Chicago, who in 1985 proposed that soot found at the end of the Cretaceous came
from global wildfires, agrees.
CAMS maps also demonstrate ozone levels over the U.S. West Coast, nitrogen dioxide pollution over Europe, and
global wildfire emissions.
New research predicts that global warming will cause a massive rise
in global wildfires, particularly on Australia's east coast and in the Mediterranean basin.
«In this case, we asked how individual factors like increases in crop area and population densities over time have affected
the global wildfire behaviour and what is the resulting effect on carbon uptake by land.
Did a comet strike the Earth 12,800 years ago, causing
global wildfires and starting an age of cooling?
The relative contribution of fossil fuel combustion and biomass combustion to the global black carbon inventory is a matter of some dispute, which is also probably being affected by drought - correlated rise in
global wildfires.