Sentences with phrase «season length metrics»

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

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).

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Precession dominates * midsummer * high - latitude insolation (the usual Milankovitch metric), but obliquity has a stronger influence on Huybers» notion of «summer heat» (which takes into account the astronomical influence on length - of - season.

The better metrics are length of active wildfire season, which has increased by about 2 months in the western US in the last 40 years, and area burned, which has also doubled... Future projections indicate a dramatic increase in area burned.»