Sentences with phrase «weather season metrics»

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

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

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).

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).

Not exact matches

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).

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.

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