Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Exacerbated fires in Mediterranean Europe due to anthropogenic warming projected with non-stationary climate-fire models

  • Marco Turco,
  • Juan José Rosa-Cánovas,
  • Joaquín Bedia,
  • Sonia Jerez,
  • Juan Pedro Montávez,
  • Maria Carmen Llasat,
  • Antonello Provenzale

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06358-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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A warmer and drier climate will affect wildfire activity but the climate-fire relationship could change under warming. Here the authors use models with a non-stationary climate-fire relationship to show that to avoid doubling the burned area in the coming decades we must stay below 1.5 °C Paris target.