Climate Change Increases the Potential for Extreme Wildfires

Abstract Pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) wildfires cause devastation in many regions globally. Given that fire‐atmosphere coupling is associated with pyroCbs, future changes in coincident high index values of atmospheric instability and dryness (C‐Haines) and near‐surface fire weather are assessed for sou...

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Published in:	Geophysical Research Letters
Main Authors:	Giovanni Di Virgilio, Jason P. Evans, Stephanie A. P. Blake, Matthew Armstrong, Andrew J. Dowdy, Jason Sharples, Rick McRae
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wiley 2019-07-01
Subjects:	atmospheric instability dewpoint depression fire weather natural hazards pyrocumulonimbus regional climate modeling
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083699