Global and regional trends and drivers of fire under climate change

MW Jones, JT Abatzoglou, S Veraverbeke… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is
increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating …

A review of machine learning applications in wildfire science and management

P Jain, SCP Coogan, SG Subramanian… - Environmental …, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
Artificial intelligence has been applied in wildfire science and management since the 1990s,
with early applications including neural networks and expert systems. Since then, the field …

Observed increases in extreme fire weather driven by atmospheric humidity and temperature

P Jain, D Castellanos-Acuna, SCP Coogan… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent increases in regional wildfire activity have been linked to climate change. Here, we
analyse trends in observed global extreme fire weather and their meteorological drivers from …

Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests

RK Hagmann, PF Hessburg, SJ Prichard… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Implementation of wildfire‐and climate‐adaptation strategies in seasonally dry forests of
western North America is impeded by numerous constraints and uncertainties. After more …

Wildfires in the Siberian taiga

VI Kharuk, EI Ponomarev, GA Ivanova, ML Dvinskaya… - Ambio, 2021 - Springer
The majority of area burned by wildfire are located in Siberia. Mainly low-intensity surface
fires occur in larch forests, whereas in evergreen forests both surface and crown fires are …

[HTML][HTML] Health impact analysis of PM2. 5 from wildfire smoke in Canada (2013–2015, 2017–2018)

CJ Matz, M Egyed, G Xi, J Racine, R Pavlovic… - Science of The Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Smoke from wildfires contains many air pollutants of concern and epidemiological studies
have identified associations between exposure to wildfire smoke PM 2.5 and mortality and …

Wildfire detection from multisensor satellite imagery using deep semantic segmentation

D Rashkovetsky, F Mauracher… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deriving the extent of areas affected by wildfires is critical to fire management, protection of
the population, damage assessment, and better understanding of the consequences of fires …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change and mercury in the Arctic: Abiotic interactions

J Chételat, MA McKinney, M Amyot, A Dastoor… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Dramatic environmental shifts are occuring throughout the Arctic from climate change, with
consequences for the cycling of mercury (Hg). This review summarizes the latest science on …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Scientistsʼ warning on climate change and medicinal plants

WL Applequist, JA Brinckmann, AB Cunningham… - Planta …, 2020 - thieme-connect.com
The recent publication of a World Scientistsʼ Warning to Humanity highlighted the fact that
climate change, absent strenuous mitigation or adaptation efforts, will have profound …