Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

ENSO modulates wildfire activity in China

  • Keyan Fang,
  • Qichao Yao,
  • Zhengtang Guo,
  • Ben Zheng,
  • Jianhua Du,
  • Fangzhong Qi,
  • Ping Yan,
  • Jie Li,
  • Tinghai Ou,
  • Jane Liu,
  • Maosheng He,
  • Valerie Trouet

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21988-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Fire activity in China and its associations with climate are not well quantified at a local scale. Here, the authors present a detailed fire occurrence dataset for China and find a dipole fire pattern between southwestern and southeastern China that is modulated by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO).