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 …

Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene

DMJS Bowman, CA Kolden, JT Abatzoglou… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Vegetation fires are an essential component of the Earth system but can also cause
substantial economic losses, severe air pollution, human mortality and environmental …

[PDF][PDF] Climate change 2022: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat - 2022 - hal.science
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments1, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Observed increases in extreme fire weather driven by atmospheric humidity and temperature

P Jain, D Castellanos-Acuna, SCP Coogan… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent increases in regional wildfire activity have been linked to climate change. Here, we
analyse trends in observed global extreme fire weather and their meteorological drivers from …

Terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their services

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat, R Adrian… - 2023 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial and temporal expansion of global wildland fire activity in response to climate change

M Senande-Rivera, D Insua-Costa… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Global warming is expected to alter wildfire potential and fire season severity, but the
magnitude and location of change is still unclear. Here, we show that climate largely …

[HTML][HTML] Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints

JT Abatzoglou, DS Battisti, AP Williams… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Escalating burned area in western US forests punctuated by the 2020 fire season has
heightened the need to explore near-term macroscale forest-fire area trajectories. As fires …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California

M Goss, DL Swain, JT Abatzoglou… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
California has experienced devastating autumn wildfires in recent years. These autumn
wildfires have coincided with extreme fire weather conditions during periods of strong …

[HTML][HTML] The 2019/2020 mega-fires exposed Australian ecosystems to an unprecedented extent of high-severity fire

L Collins, RA Bradstock, H Clarke… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Extreme fire seasons characterised by very large'mega-fires' have demonstrably increased
area burnt across forested regions globally. However, the effect of extreme fire seasons on …

Observed impacts of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire in California

AP Williams, JT Abatzoglou, A Gershunov… - Earth's …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent fire seasons have fueled intense speculation regarding the effect of anthropogenic
climate change on wildfire in western North America and especially in California. During …