108289 20230519145345.0 doi 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142788 sideral 121185 ART-2021-121185 eng Cardil, A. Coupled effects of climate teleconnections on drought, Santa Ana winds and wildfires in southern California 2021 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Projections of future climate change impacts suggest an increase of wildfire activity in Mediterranean ecosystems, such as southern California. This region is a wildfire hotspot and fire managers are under increasingly high pressures to minimize socio-economic impacts. In this context, predictions of high-risk fire seasons are essential to achieve adequate preventive planning. Regional-scale weather patterns and climatic teleconnections play a key role in modulating fire-conducive conditions across the globe, yet an analysis of the coupled effects of these systems onto the spread of large wildfires is lacking for the region. We analyzed seven decades (1953–2018) of documentary wildfire records from southern California to assess the linkages between weather patterns and large-scale climate modes using various statistical techniques, including Redundancy Analysis, Superposed Epoch Analysis and Wavelet Coherence. We found that high area burned is significantly associated with the occurrence of adverse weather patterns, such as severe droughts and Santa Ana winds. Further, we document how these fire-promoting events are mediated by climate teleconnections, particularly by the coupled effects of El Niño Southern Oscillation and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 10.754 2021 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 26 / 279 = 0.093 2021 Q1 T1 1.806 2021 Environmental Chemistry 2021 Q1 Waste Management and Disposal 2021 Q1 Environmental Engineering 2021 Q1 14.1 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Rodrigues, M. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-0477-0796 Ramirez, J. de-Miguel, S. Silva, C.A. Mariani, M. Ascoli, D. 3006 010 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Geograf. Ordenac.Territ. Área Análisis Geográfico Regi. 765, 142788 (2021), [8 pp] Sci. total environ. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 0048-9697 356097 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/108289/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 1849828 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/108289/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:108289 articulos driver 2023-05-18-13:20:44 ARTICLE