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Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 1992
Simulations of impacts of a double-CO2 climate with the Changed Climate Fire Modeling System in Northern California consistently projected increases in area burned and in the frequency of escaped fires compared with simulations of the present climate. However, the magnitude of those increases was strongly influenced by vegetation type, choice of atmospheric general circulation model (GCM) scenario, and choice of climatic forcing variables. The greatest projected increase in fire severity occurred in grasslands, using the Princeton Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory GCM, with wind speed, temperature, humidity and precipitation as driving variables.
Citation: Torn, M. S., and J. S. Fried. 1992. Predicting the impacts of global warming on wildland fire. Climatic Change, v. 21, p. 257-274.
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- Ceanothus
- chaparral
- chemical elements
- climate change
- computer programs
- fire danger rating
- fire frequency
- fire management
- fire regimes
- fire suppression
- GIS
- grasslands
- humidity
- northern California
- population density
- precipitation
- Quercus
- Sequoia sempervirens
- statistical analysis
- temperature
- wildfires
- wind
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