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Type: Conference Paper
Author(s): Colin Price; David Rind
Publication Date: 1994

Each year lightning ignites approximately 10,000 wildland fires in the United States alone. Therefore, when considering how climate change may affect wildland fires, one needs to consider possible changes in lightning activity. With the aid of satellite cloud and lightning observations we have developed parameterizations for the calculation of lightning frequencies in General Circulation Models (GCM's). This was achieved by relating the height of convective cloud tops in the model to the intensity of lightning activity. Good agreement exists between the model's control run for today's climate, and the available satellite observations of lightning activity. The Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) GCM shows that for a 2

Citation: Price, C., and D. Rind. 1994. Lightning activity in a greenhouse world. Proceedings of the Conference on Fire and Forest Meteorology, v. 11, p. 598-604.

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Topics:
Climate    Communications    Fire Behavior    Fire Occurrence    Intelligence    Mapping    Models    Monitoring and Inventory
Regions:
Alaska    California    Eastern    Great Basin    Hawaii    Northern Rockies    Northwest    Rocky Mountain    Southern    Southwest    National
Keywords:
  • climate change
  • fire frequency
  • lightning
  • lightning caused fires
  • lightning effects
  • remote sensing
  • wilderness fire management
  • wildfires
Tall Timbers Record Number: 9183 • Location Status: In-file • Call Number: Fire File • Abstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission
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FRAMES Record Number: 34900

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