The role of weather and climate conditions on extreme wildfires

Pereira, Mário; Parente, Joana; Amraoui, Malik; Oliveira, António Filipe; Fernandes, Paulo M.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-815721-3.00003-5

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“…As our civilization is facing more natural crisis, global warming becomes increasingly evident (Pereira et al, 2020). Wildfires in Australia are just one dreadful event among others (Arriagada et al, 2020), such as droughts in China and floods in Fiji Islands (Keyimu et al, 2020;Merschroth et al, 2020).The last report of the GIEC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2018) is greatly alarming.…”

Section: Causes and Effects Of Uhimentioning

confidence: 99%

Uhi Estimation Based on Aster and Modis Satellite Imagery: First Results on Strasbourg City, France

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Landes

Nerry

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Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. The increase in urbanization of cities coupled with some effects of climate change is leading to the emergence of urban microclimates. The rising temperatures in cities create the phenomenon known as Urban Heat Island (UHI). This is a difference between the temperature of urban and rural areas that intensifies more during the night and varies according to the season of the year. This paper focuses on the estimation of the UHI and its variations in and around the city of Strasbourg. To this end, thermal remote sensing data from different satellite has been used to isolate and analyse this phenomenon, specifically, Land Surface Temperatures (LSTs) provided by ASTER and MODIS. The LST provided by these sensors has been compared to air temperatures of the last 15 years from meteorological stations distributed throughout the city that have served as ground truth. Forty-seven meteorological stations spread throughout the area of interest provided measurements of air humidity and temperature. This valuable data base has allowed the assessment of the correlations between LST from satellite and ground truth air temperature. Based on satellite data resampled at different spatial units, this work led to the creation of the first UHI map of Strasbourg.

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Section: Causes and Effects Of Uhimentioning

confidence: 99%

Uhi Estimation Based on Aster and Modis Satellite Imagery: First Results on Strasbourg City, France

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Nerry

et al. 2020

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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“…The impact of heat waves on the livestock sector include (1) the massive death of livestock leading to economic losses and (2) increase transhumance activity which usually triggers farmer-pastoralist conflicts. Heat waves were also identified as a major trigger of wildfire which may lead to substantial loss of vegetation and destruction of terrestrial ecosystems in the region (Pereira et al, 2020).…”

Section: Heat Wavesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Need for Developing Impact-Based Forecasting in West Africa

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“…After careful review of different strategies (see, e.g., the broad frameworks for studies on fires set by Wotton, 2001, andPereira et al, 2020), the works of Crimmins (2006), Trigo and DaCâmara (2000), and Boer et al (2017) became reference methods for this work, as will be seen below. Taken together, these studies show that extreme fire weather conditions should be thought of as part of a continuum of meteorological variability whose study imposes the combination of different scales of analysis, methods, and data.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This unexpectedly large magnitude remains, however, only partially understood. Weather is a well‐documented critical factor in determining the timing and size of fires (Viegas and Viegas, 1994; Flannigan and Wotton, 2001; LePage et al ., 2008) and extreme fire events rarely occur in the absence of severe weather conditions (Trigo et al ., 2006; Moreira et al ., 2011, 2020; Fernandes et al ., 2016a; Pereira et al ., 2020). Weather sciences are therefore decisive for the development of forecasting and preparedness approaches.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%