Convergence in critical fuel moisture and fire weather thresholds associated with fire activity in the pyroregions of Mediterranean Europe.

Europe Seasons Weather Wildfires Wind
Extremely large wildfires Fuel moisture Haines Index Vapor pressure deficit Wind speed

Journal

The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
01 Feb 2022
Historique:
received: 27 09 2021
revised: 01 11 2021
accepted: 01 11 2021
pubmed: 8 11 2021
medline: 15 12 2021
entrez: 7 11 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Wildfires are becoming an increasing threat to many communities worldwide. There has been substantial progress towards understanding the proximal causes of increased fire activity in recent years at regional and national scales. However, subcontinental scale examinations of the commonalities and differences in the drivers of fire activity across different regions are rare in the Mediterranean zone of the European Union (EUMed). Here, we first develop a new classification of EUMed pyroregions, based on grouping different ecoregions with similar seasonal patterns of burned area. We then examine the thresholds associated with fire activity in response to different drivers related to fuel moisture, surface meteorology and atmospheric stability. We document an overarching role for variation in dead fuel moisture content (FM

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151462 PMID: 34742803
pubmed: 34742803
pii: S0048-9697(21)06540-2
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151462
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

151462

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Auteurs

Víctor Resco de Dios (V)

School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China; Department of Crop and Forest Sciences, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain; Joint Research Unit CTFC-AGROTECNIO-CERCA Center, Lleida, Spain. Electronic address: v.rescodedios@gmail.com.

Àngel Cunill Camprubí (À)

Joint Research Unit CTFC-AGROTECNIO-CERCA Center, Lleida, Spain.

Núria Pérez-Zanón (N)

Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain.

Juan Carlos Peña (JC)

Meteorological Service of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain; Fluvalps-PaleoRisk Research Group, Department of Geography, University of Barcelona, Spain.

Edurne Martínez Del Castillo (E)

Joint Research Unit CTFC-AGROTECNIO-CERCA Center, Lleida, Spain; Department of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55099 Mainz, Germany.

Marcos Rodrigues (M)

Department of Geography and Land Management, University of Zaragoza, GEOFOREST Group, Spain.

Yinan Yao (Y)

School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China. Electronic address: yinanyao@swust.edu.cn.

Marta Yebra (M)

Fenner School of Environment & Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia; Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; School of Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Cristina Vega-García (C)

Department of Agricultural and Forest Engineering, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain; Joint Research Unit CTFC-AGROTECNIO-CERCA Center, Lleida, Spain.

Matthias M Boer (MM)

Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW, Australia.

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