Global and regional trends and drivers of fire under climate change

MW Jones, JT Abatzoglou, S Veraverbeke… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is
increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating …

[HTML][HTML] Smouldering wildfires in peatlands, forests and the arctic: Challenges and perspectives

G Rein, X Huang - Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health, 2021 - Elsevier
Wildfires can be divided into two types, flaming or smouldering, depending on the dominant
combustion processes. Both types are present in most wildfires, and despite being …

Unprecedented fire activity above the Arctic Circle linked to rising temperatures

A Descals, DLA Gaveau, A Verger, D Sheil, D Naito… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Arctic fires can release large amounts of carbon from permafrost peatlands. Satellite
observations reveal that fires burned~ 4.7 million hectares in 2019 and 2020, accounting for …

Interactive effects of changes in UV radiation and climate on terrestrial ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles, and feedbacks to the climate system

PW Barnes, TM Robson, RG Zepp, JF Bornman… - Photochemical & …, 2023 - Springer
Terrestrial organisms and ecosystems are being exposed to new and rapidly changing
combinations of solar UV radiation and other environmental factors because of ongoing …

Environmental effects of stratospheric ozone depletion, UV radiation, and interactions with climate change: UNEP Environmental Effects Assessment Panel, Update …

PW Barnes, TM Robson, PJ Neale… - Photochemical & …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Environmental Effects Assessment Panel of the Montreal Protocol under the
United Nations Environment Programme evaluates effects on the environment and human …

Carbon uptake in Eurasian boreal forests dominates the high‐latitude net ecosystem carbon budget

JD Watts, M Farina, JS Kimball, LD Schiferl… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Arctic‐boreal landscapes are experiencing profound warming, along with changes in
ecosystem moisture status and disturbance from fire. This region is of global importance in …

Global biomass burning fuel consumption and emissions at 500-m spatial resolution based on the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED)

D van Wees, GR van der Werf… - Geoscientific Model …, 2022 - gmd.copernicus.org
In fire emission models, the spatial resolution of both the modelling framework and the
satellite data used to quantify burned area can have considerable impact on emission …

Early snowmelt and polar jet dynamics co-influence recent extreme Siberian fire seasons

RC Scholten, D Coumou, F Luo, S Veraverbeke - Science, 2022 - science.org
The summers of 2019, 2020, and 2021 experienced unprecedented fire activity in
northeastern Siberia, driven by record high spring and summer temperatures. Many of these …

Evaluating the differenced normalized burn ratio for assessing fire severity using Sentinel-2 imagery in Northeast Siberian Larch Forests

CJF Delcourt, A Combee, B Izbicki, MC Mack… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Fire severity is a key fire regime characteristic with high ecological and carbon cycle
relevance. Prior studies on boreal forest fires primarily focused on mapping severity in North …

Climate-induced Arctic-boreal peatland fire and carbon loss in the 21st century

S Lin, Y Liu, X Huang - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Boreal peatlands are increasingly vulnerable to wildfires as climate change continues
accelerating. Fires consume substantial quantities of organic soils and rapidly transfer large …