Detecting the effect of climate change on Canadian forest fires

Details Detecting the effect of climate change on Canadian forest fires Detecting the effect of climate change on Canadian forest fires

Sep 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004georl..3118211g&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 31, Issue 18, CiteID L18211

Physics

60

Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Biosphere/Atmosphere Interactions, Global Change: Atmosphere (0315, 0325), Global Change: Climate Dynamics (3309), Global Change: Impact Phenomena, Information Related To Geographic Region: North America

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The area burned by forest fires in Canada has increased over the past four decades, at the same time as summer season temperatures have warmed. Here we use output from a coupled climate model to demonstrate that human emissions of greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosol have made a detectable contribution to this warming. We further show that human-induced climate change has had a detectable influence on the area burned by forest fire in Canada over recent decades. This increase in area burned is likely to have important implications for terrestrial emissions of carbon dioxide and for forest ecosystems.

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