Recent massive expansion of wildfire and its impact on active layer over pan-Arctic permafrost

Wildfire is recognized as an increasing threat to the southern boreal forests and the permafrost beneath them, with less occurring over the cold continuous permafrost than before. However, we show that continuous permafrost was a major contribution to wildfire expansion in the pan-Arctic over the la...

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Main Authors: Xingru Zhu, Xiyan Xu, Gensuo Jia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ace205