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Título: | Skilful forecasting of global fire activity using seasonal climate predictions |
Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
Cita bibliográfica: | Nature Communications (2018) 9:2718 |
ISSN: | Electronic 2041-1723 |
Resumen: | Societal exposure to large fires has been increasing in recent years. Estimating the expected fire activity a few months in advance would allow reducing environmental and socio-economic impacts through short-term adaptation and response to climate variability and change. However, seasonal prediction of climate-driven fires is still in its infancy. Here, we discuss a strategy for seasonally forecasting burned area anomalies linking seasonal climate predictions with parsimonious empirical climate–fire models using the standardized precipitation index as the climate predictor for burned area. Assuming near-perfect climate predictions, we obtained skillful predictions of fire activity over a substantial portion of the global burnable area (~60%). Using currently available operational seasonal climate predictions, the skill of fire seasonal forecasts remains high and significant in a large fraction of the burnable area (~40%). These findings reveal an untapped and useful burned area predictive ability using seasonal climate forecasts, which can play a crucial role in fire management strategies and minimize the impact of adverse climate conditions. |
Autor/es principal/es: | Turco, Marco Jerez, Sonia Doblas Reyes, Francisco J. AghaKouchak, Amir Llasat, María Carmen Provenzale, Antonello |
Facultad/Departamentos/Servicios: | Departamento de Física |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10201/138615 |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-018-05250-0 |
Tipo de documento: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional |
Descripción: | Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
Aparece en las colecciones: | Artículos: Física |
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