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Future wildfire warning for Australia on 50th anniversary of Tasmanias Black Tuesday
http://www.media.utas.edu.au/general-news/all-news/future-wildfire-warning-for-australia-on-50th-anniversary-of-tasmanias-black-tuesday[font face=Serif][font size=5]Future wildfire warning for Australia on 50th anniversary of Tasmania’s Black Tuesday[/font]
[font size=3]Increasingly dangerous fire weather is forecast for Australia and the Mediterranean as the global footprint of extreme fires expands, according to the latest research.
University of Tasmania Professor of Environmental Change Biology David Bowman led an international collaboration - including researchers from the University of Idaho and South Dakota State University - to compile a global satellite database of the intensity of 23 million landscape fires used to identify 478 of the most extreme wildfire events.
“Extreme fire events are a global and natural phenomenon, particularly in forested areas that have pronounced dry seasons,” Professor Bowman said.
“With the exception of land clearance, the research found that extremely intense fires are associated with anomalous weather – such as droughts, winds, or in desert regions, following particularly wet seasons.
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Published on: 07 Feb 2017 11:39am[/font][/font]
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-016-0058[font size=3]Increasingly dangerous fire weather is forecast for Australia and the Mediterranean as the global footprint of extreme fires expands, according to the latest research.
University of Tasmania Professor of Environmental Change Biology David Bowman led an international collaboration - including researchers from the University of Idaho and South Dakota State University - to compile a global satellite database of the intensity of 23 million landscape fires used to identify 478 of the most extreme wildfire events.
“Extreme fire events are a global and natural phenomenon, particularly in forested areas that have pronounced dry seasons,” Professor Bowman said.
“With the exception of land clearance, the research found that extremely intense fires are associated with anomalous weather – such as droughts, winds, or in desert regions, following particularly wet seasons.
…
Published on: 07 Feb 2017 11:39am[/font][/font]