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Global pyrogeography: the current and future distribution of wildfire

Meg A. Krawchuk, Max A. Moritz, Marc-André Parisien, Jeff Van Dorn, Katharine Hayhoe
Summary - what did the authors do and why?

The authors quantified environmental drivers of global wildfire including climate conditions at a coarse spatiotemporal resolution in order to model future projections of global fire patterns under climate change models.

Publication findings:

The authors found that globally, changes in temperature and precipitation may result in a rearrangement of fire probabilities where fire activity will increase in some areas and decrease in others under climate change.

Climate and Fire Linkages

How do temperature, relative humidity and vapor pressure deficit relate to annual area burned and fire size?

The authors found that globally, changes in temperature and precipitation may result in a rearrangement of fire probabilities where fire activity will increase in some areas and decrease in others under climate change.

How do snowpack and precipitation (snow/rain) relate to annual area burned and fire size?

The authors found that globally, changes in temperature and precipitation may result in a rearrangement of fire probabilities where fire activity will increase in some areas and decrease in others under climate change.