Global warming is shifting the relationships between fire weather and realized fire-induced CO emissions in Europe
Carnicer Cols, Jofre (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals)
Alegría, Andrés (Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung)
Giannakopoulos, Christos (National Observatory of Athens. Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development)
Di Giuseppe, Francesca (European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts)
Karali, Anna (National Observatory of Athens. Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development)
Koutsias, Nikos (University of Patras. Department of Environmental Engineering)
Lionello, Piero (Università del Salento. Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologie ed Ambientali)
Parrington, Mark (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts)
Vitolo, Claudia (European Space Agency. European Space Research Institute)

Date:	2022
Abstract:	Fire activity has significantly changed in Europe over the last decades (1980-2020s), with the emergence of summers attaining unprecedented fire prone weather conditions. Here we report a significant shift in the non-stationary relationship linking fire weather conditions and fire intensity measured in terms of CO emissions released during biomass burning across a latitudinal gradient of European IPCC regions. The reported trends indicate that global warming is possibly inducing an incipient change on regional fire dynamics towards increased fire impacts in Europe, suggesting that emerging risks posed by exceptional fire-weather danger conditions may progressively exceed current wildfire suppression capabilities in the next decades and impact forest carbon sinks.
Grants:	Agencia Estatal de Investigación PID2020-117636GB-C21 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación GGL-2016-78093-R
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Fire ecology ; Natural hazards
Published in:	Scientific reports, Vol. 12 (June 2022) , art. 10365, ISSN 2045-2322

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-14480-8
PMID: 35725762

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