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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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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1029/2023EF003976
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- 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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2328-4277
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1560091
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pubs:1560091
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2023-11-07
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- Fan et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2023
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- © 2023 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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