Compound dry-hot-fire events in South America: an unapparent, long-range and deadly ripple effect

DM dos Santos, AM Oliveira, ESF Duarte… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Under current global warming, South America (SA) has been experiencing severe
compound drought-heatwave (CDHW) conditions, which, in turn, exacerbate fire risk. A …

Compound dry-hot-fire events in South America: an unapparent, long-range and deadly ripple effect

S DMd, AM Oliveira, ESF Duarte, JA Rodrigues… - 2024 - europepmc.org
Under current global warming, South America (SA) has been experiencing severe
compound drought-heatwave (CDHW) conditions, which, in turn, exacerbate fire risk. A …

Escalating hot‐dry extremes amplify compound fire weather risk

X Fan, C Miao, J Zscheischler, L Slater, Y Wu… - Earth's …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fire weather compounded by extremely hot and dry conditions often severely impacts
society and ecosystems. To mitigate and better adapt to these compound fire weather (CFW) …

Assessing the role of compound drought and heatwave events on unprecedented 2020 wildfires in the Pantanal

R Libonati, JL Geirinhas, PS Silva… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The year 2020 had the most catastrophic fire season over the last two decades in the
Pantanal, which led to outstanding environmental impacts. Indeed, much of the Pantanal …

[HTML][HTML] Global vegetation, moisture, thermal and climate interactions intensify compound extreme events

OE Adeyeri, W Zhou, CE Ndehedehe… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Compound extreme events, encompassing drought, vegetation stress, wildfire severity, and
heatwave intensity (CDVWHS), pose significant threats to societal, environmental, and …

Health impacts of long-range transported air pollution in South America: compound events, cascading hazards and the Pantanal 2020 fire crisis.

D Monteiro dos Santos, AM de Oliveira… - EGU General …, 2024 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Human-induced climate changes have increased the frequency of simultaneous hot-dry
events. In 2020, the occurrence of compound droughts and heat waves (CDHW) conditions …

[HTML][HTML] Summer compound drought-heat extremes amplify fire-weather risk and burned area beyond historical thresholds in Chongqing Region, subtropical China

L Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Y He, M Sun, Y Yao… - Fire, 2023 - mdpi.com
Global warming is associated with an increase in compound drought-heat events (CDHEs),
leading to larger and more extreme fire-weather risk in mesic forests. Wildfire activity in …

Extreme fire spread events and area burned under recent and future climate in the western USA

JD Coop, SA Parks… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Wildfire activity in recent years is notable not only for an expansion of total area burned
but also for large, single‐day fire spread events that pose challenges to ecological systems …

Fire-weather interaction fed the 2020 western USA gigafire

X Huang, J Liu, K Ding, Z Wang, R Tang, L Xue… - 2021 - eartharxiv.org
Wildfires threaten human lives, destroy infrastructure, disrupt economic activity, and damage
ecosystem services. A record-breaking gigafire event ravaged the western United States …

Threats of compound wildfire smoke and extreme heat in California

CG Jones-Ngo - 2023 - escholarship.org
Wildfires and extreme heat events are inherently linked; shared climatic drivers are
simultaneously worsening both hazardous events in California. Populations likely …