Sentences with phrase «wildfire season length»
Graphs show a) Global average wildfire season length (expressed as a standardised anomaly), and b) Total global average area experiencing «long» wildfire seasons (as a % of global vegetated area)-- both from 1979 to 2013.
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The study also shows that the length of the wildfire season correlates closely with changes in temperature, humidity, rainfall, and other climate indicators.
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.
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.
The length of the wildfire season may also be increasing, research has shown.
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.»
The average season length (the time between the reported first wildfire discovery date and the last wildfire control date) increased by 78 days (64 %), comparing 1970 to 1986 with 1987 to 2003.
The length of the growing season in interior Alaska has increased 45 % over the last century7 and that trend is projected to continue.8 This could improve conditions for agriculture where moisture is adequate, but will reduce water storage and increase the risks of more extensive wildfire and insect outbreaks across much of Alaska.9, 10 Changes in dates of snowmelt and freeze - up would influence seasonal migration of birds and other animals, increase the likelihood and rate of northerly range expansion of native and non-native species, alter the habitats of both ecologically important and endangered species, and affect ocean currents.11
This infographic highlights the length of the wildfire season for the Western U.S. as a region.
There has been an escalation in the severity and length of the wildfire season in the Western United States and diminished water resources, which have been linked to climate change.