[HTML][HTML] Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia

NJ Abram, BJ Henley, A Sen Gupta… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The 2019/20 Black Summer bushfire disaster in southeast Australia was
unprecedented: the extensive area of forest burnt, the radiative power of the fires, and the …

Compound extremes drive the western Oregon wildfires of September 2020

JT Abatzoglou, DE Rupp, LW O'Neill… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Several very large high‐impact fires burned nearly 4,000 km2 of mesic forests in western
Oregon during September 7–9, 2020. While infrequent, very large high‐severity fires have …

Causes of the widespread 2019–2020 Australian bushfire season

P Deb, H Moradkhani, P Abbaszadeh, AS Kiem… - Earth's …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The recent bushfires (2019–2020) in New South Wales (NSW) Australia were
catastrophic by claiming human and animal lives, affecting ecosystems, destroying …

Natural hazards in Australia: extreme bushfire

JJ Sharples, GJ Cary, P Fox-Hughes, S Mooney… - Climatic Change, 2016 - Springer
Bushfires are one of the most frequent natural hazards experienced in Australia. Fires play
an important role in shaping the landscape and its ecological dynamics, but may also have …

The 2017 North Bay and Southern California fires: a case study

NJ Nauslar, JT Abatzoglou, PT Marsh - Fire, 2018 - mdpi.com
Two extreme wind-driven wildfire events impacted California in late 2017, leading to 46
fatalities and thousands of structures lost. This study characterizes the meteorological and …

Comparison of wildfire meteorology and climate at the Adriatic coast and southeast Australia

IČ Tomašević, KKW Cheung, V Vučetić, P Fox-Hughes - Atmosphere, 2022 - mdpi.com
Wildfire is one of the most complex natural hazards. Its origin is a combination of
anthropogenic factors, urban development and weather plus climate factors. In particular …

[HTML][HTML] The causes of foehn warming in the lee of mountains

AD Elvidge, IA Renfrew - Bulletin of the American …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Causes of Foehn Warming in the Lee of Mountains in: Bulletin of the American
Meteorological Society Volume 97 Issue 3 (2016) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

Identification of two distinct fire regimes in Southern California: implications for economic impact and future change

Y Jin, ML Goulden, N Faivre… - Environmental …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The area burned by Southern California wildfires has increased in recent decades, with
implications for human health, infrastructure, and ecosystem management. Meteorology and …

Global climatology of synoptically‐forced downslope winds

JT Abatzoglou, BJ Hatchett… - International Journal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Downslope winds are mesoscale mountain meteorological phenomena that contribute to
localized temperature extremes and contribute to numerous societal and environmental …

Future fire danger climatology for Tasmania, Australia, using a dynamically downscaled regional climate model

P Fox-Hughes, R Harris, G Lee, M Grose… - International journal of …, 2014 - CSIRO Publishing
Daily values of McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index were generated at~ 10-km resolution over
Tasmania, Australia, from six dynamically downscaled CMIP3 climate models for 1961 …