Climate and Wildland Fires
A special issue of Climate (ISSN 2225-1154).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2017) | Viewed by 146
Special Issue Editor
Interests: fire-weather; fire-fuel-atmosphere interactions; atmospheric turbulence; smoke transport and dispersion; regional climate variability and wildland fires; modeling and monitoring
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wildfires are recognized as an important disturbance in forest and grassland ecosystems in many countries of the world. The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2014 identified a number of key interactions and connections between climate and wildland fires across North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and Australasia. Understanding these interactions and connections is critical for the development of effective long-term fire management strategies for forests and natural resources under changing climate conditions.
This Special Issue focuses on synthesis papers and recent research that advance our current understanding of the connections between climate, climate variability/change, and various aspects of wildland fire. Example topics for inclusion in the Special Issue include but are not limited to
- Effects of global and regional climate variability/change on fire weather (modeling and observations)
- Atmospheric teleconnections and wildfire occurrences and properties
- Short and long-term effects of wildfire events on local, regional, and global climate conditions
- Emissions from wildland fires and their impacts on radiative processes and boundary layer meteorology
- Wildland fire impacts on the hydrological cycle, the carbon cycle, and land-use/land-cover patterns
- Current trends in and projected durations of wildfire and prescribed-fire seasons
- Effects of regional climate change on fuels and fire regimes (pattern, frequency, and intensity of wildfires)
- Science-based management strategies for wildland fires under a changing climate
Dr. Warren E. Heilman
Guest Editor
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