[HTML][HTML] Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia

NJ Abram, BJ Henley, A Sen Gupta… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The 2019/20 Black Summer bushfire disaster in southeast Australia was
unprecedented: the extensive area of forest burnt, the radiative power of the fires, and the …

[HTML][HTML] A review of the applications of remote sensing in fire ecology

DM Szpakowski, JLR Jensen - Remote sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Wildfire plays an important role in ecosystem dynamics, land management, and global
processes. Understanding the dynamics associated with wildfire, such as risks, spatial …

Warming weakens the night-time barrier to global fire

JK Balch, JT Abatzoglou, MB Joseph, MJ Koontz… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Night-time provides a critical window for slowing or extinguishing fires owing to the lower
temperature and the lower vapour pressure deficit (VPD). However, fire danger is most often …

Drivers and implications of the extreme 2022 wildfire season in Southwest Europe

M Rodrigues, ÀC Camprubí… - Science of the total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wildfire is a common phenomenon in Mediterranean countries but the 2022 fire season has
been extreme in southwest Europe (Portugal, Spain and France). Here we provide a …

Causes and consequences of eastern Australia's 2019–20 season of mega‐fires.

RH Nolan, MM Boer, L Collins… - Global change …, 2020 - search.ebscohost.com
Abstract GLO: EVN/01mar20: gcb14987-fig-0001. jpg PHOTO (COLOR):(a) Burned areas in
the 2019-20 fire season (data from the New South Wales [NSW] Rural Fire Service …

Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires

M Mariani, SE Connor, M Theuerkauf… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent catastrophic fires in Australia and North America have raised broad‐scale questions
about how the cessation of Indigenous burning practices has impacted fuel accumulation …

Forest fire fuel through the lens of remote sensing: Review of approaches, challenges and future directions in the remote sensing of biotic determinants of fire …

MG Gale, GJ Cary, AIJM Van Dijk, M Yebra - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Forested environments are subject to large and high intensity unplanned fire events, owing
to, among other factors, the high quantity and complex structure of fuel in these …

What do the Australian black summer fires signify for the global fire crisis?

RH Nolan, DMJS Bowman, H Clarke, K Haynes… - Fire, 2021 - mdpi.com
The 2019–20 Australian fire season was heralded as emblematic of the catastrophic harm
wrought by climate change. Similarly extreme wildfire seasons have occurred across the …

Causes of the widespread 2019–2020 Australian bushfire season

P Deb, H Moradkhani, P Abbaszadeh, AS Kiem… - Earth's …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The recent bushfires (2019–2020) in New South Wales (NSW) Australia were
catastrophic by claiming human and animal lives, affecting ecosystems, destroying …

Large‐scale, dynamic transformations in fuel moisture drive wildfire activity across southeastern Australia

RH Nolan, MM Boer, V Resco de Dios… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The occurrence of large, high‐intensity wildfires requires plant biomass, or fuel, that is
sufficiently dry to burn. This poses the question, what is “sufficiently dry”? Until recently, the …