Do climate teleconnections modulate wildfire-prone conditions over the Iberian Peninsula?
Resumen: Climate teleconnections (CT) synchronize and influence weather features such as temperature, precipitation and, subsequently, drought and fuel moisture in many regions across the globe. CTs thus may be related to cycles in wildfire activity, and thereby help fire managers to anticipate fire-prone weather conditions as well as envisaging their future evolution. A wide number of CTs modulate weather in the Iberian Peninsula, exerting different levels of influence at different spatial and seasonal scales on a wide range of weather factors. In this work, we investigated the link between the most relevant CT patterns in the Iberian Peninsula (IP) and fire activity and danger, exploring different spatial and temporal scales of aggregation. We analyzed a period of 36 years (1980-2015) using historical records of fire events (>100ha burned) and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI). Cross-correlation analysis was performed on monthly time series of CTs and fire data. Results pointed towards the North Atlantic Oscillation (in the western half of the IP) and Mediterranean Oscillation Index (along the Mediterranean coast) as the key CTs boosting burned area and fire weather danger in the IP. Both CTs relate to the relative position of the Azorean anticlone, fostering hazardous fire weather conditions during their positive phases, i.e., low rainfall and warm temperature leading to low fuel moisture content. The Scandinavian pattern index also played an important role in the western half of the Peninsula, linked to a decrease in rainfall during its negative phases. Nonetheless, the association between the CTs and burned area (up to 0.5 Pearson's R p<0.05) was weaker than the observed between CTs and FWI (up to 0.75 Pearson's R p<0.05).
Idioma: Inglés
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abe25d
Año: 2021
Publicado en: Environmental Research Letters 16, 4 (2021), 044050 [14 pp.]
ISSN: 1748-9326

Factor impacto JCR: 6.947 (2021)
Categ. JCR: METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES rank: 13 / 94 = 0.138 (2021) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES rank: 55 / 279 = 0.197 (2021) - Q1 - T1

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 9.4 - Environmental Science (Q1) - Energy (Q1) - Medicine (Q1)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 2.111 - Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (Q1) - Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (Q1)

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)
Área (Departamento): Área Geografía Humana (Dpto. Geograf. Ordenac.Territ.)

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