A pan-tropical cascade of fire driven by El Niño/Southern Oscillation

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Submitted by susan on Mon, 2017-12-04 11:04

The El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has a pronounced influence on year-to-year variations in climate1. The response of fires to this forcing2 is complex and has not been evaluated systematically across different continents. Here we use satellite data to create a climatology of burned-area and fire-emissions responses, drawing on six El Niño and six La Niña events during 1997–2016.

 

Name of the Journal: 
Nature Climate Change
Main Topic: 
Climate Change
thesaurus: 
El Nino
Forest Fires
Climate Change
Asia
Remote Sensing
Aerosols
Tropical Forests
Africa
Australia
Author: 
Yang Chen
Douglas C. Morton
Niels Andela & et al
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External URL: 
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-017-0014-8
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Publication Date: 
01/12/2017