Winter and spring climate explains a large portion of interannual variability and trend in western U.S. summer fire burned area

Winter and spring climate explains a large portion of interannual variability and trend in western U.S. summer fire burned area

This study predicts summer (June–September) fire burned area across the western United States (U.S.) from 1984 to 2020 using ensembles of statistical models trained with pre-fire season climate conditions. Winter and spring climate conditions alone explain up to 53% of the interannual variability an...

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Main Authors: Ronnie Abolafia-Rosenzweig, Cenlin He, Fei Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2022-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
wildfire
climate
statistical modeling
remote sensing
snow drought
burned area
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6886

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6886

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