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Escalating hot-dry extremes amplify compound fire weather risk

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Fire weather compounded by extremely hot and dry conditions often severely impacts society and ecosystems. To mitigate and better adapt to these compound fire weather (CFW) events, a better understanding of recent and future CFW trends is needed. Here we show that in the period 1981–2020, the global average frequency and intensity of CFW events increased by 0.6 days/yr and 0.4%/yr, respectively. Increases in temperature and decreases in relative humidity were responsible for significant trend...

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10.1029/2023EF003976

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
SOGE
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Author
Publisher:
Wiley
Journal:
Earth's Future More from this journal
Volume:
11
Issue:
11
Article number:
e2023EF003976
Publication date:
2023-11-06
Acceptance date:
2023-10-18
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EISSN:
2328-4277
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1560091
Local pid:
pubs:1560091
Deposit date:
2023-11-07

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