دورية أكاديمية

Arctic Oscillation and Pacific-North American pattern dominated-modulation of fire danger and wildfire occurrence

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Arctic Oscillation and Pacific-North American pattern dominated-modulation of fire danger and wildfire occurrence
المؤلفون: Flavio Justino, David H. Bromwich, Vanucia Schumacher, Alex daSilva, Sheng-Hung Wang
المصدر: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2022)
بيانات النشر: Nature Portfolio, 2022.
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: LCC:Environmental sciences
LCC:Meteorology. Climatology
مصطلحات موضوعية: Environmental sciences, GE1-350, Meteorology. Climatology, QC851-999
الوصف: Abstract Based on statistical analyses and Arctic Oscillation (AO) and the Pacific-North American pattern (PNA) induced climate anomalies in the 2001–2020 interval, it has been found that these climate modes drastically influence the fire danger (PFIv2) in differing ways across coastal and inland regions. The AO induces higher fire risk in northern Eurasia and central North America, whereas the PNA increases the fire danger across southern Asia and western North America. Moreover, fires have been predominantly identified, up to 70%, during the positive phases of AO and PNA northward of 50°N, in particular over Alaska, Baltic States and eastern Asia. For coincident positive AO and negative PNA days, a large number of fires have been identified over northwestern North America and northern Eurasia. Spectral analyses demonstrate that weather anomalies related to AO and PNA lead fire danger by 10–20 days, and both modes are significantly correlated to PFIv2 over north America and most of Eurasia. Despite some drawbacks related to the fire danger methods currently applied (PFI and FWI), it is demonstrated that the influence of AO and PNA on potential environmental driven-fires can be anticipated, in some locations on almost 90% of days. Fire danger forecasts are urgently needed and the understanding of factors and conditions, which are able to modify the environmental susceptibility to fire development, are crucial for adequate management to reduce the harmful effects of fire. In this sense, our results reveal that a better prediction of the fire season can be achieved by advanced assessment of the PNA and AO behavior, and shed light on the need to investigate the impact of other modes of climate variability upon wildfire frequency and severity.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2397-3722
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2397-3722
DOI: 10.1038/s41612-022-00274-2
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/c4575f11ae9c4199997b484702fe2b7d
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.4575f11ae9c4199997b484702fe2b7d
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:23973722
DOI:10.1038/s41612-022-00274-2