Circumpolar spatio-temporal patterns and contributing climatic factors of wildfire activity in the Arctic tundra from 2001–2015

• Published in: Environmental Research Letters
• Main Authors: Arif Masrur, Andrey N Petrov, John DeGroote
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 2018
• Subjects: tundra wildfire; climate feedback; circumpolar Arctic; climate variability; climate change; Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering; TD1-1066; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Science; Q; Physics; QC1-999; Arctic; Merra; Climate change; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa9a76; https://doaj.org/article/45d643c6ad5548e3aef67d74a461a00b

Recent years have seen an increased frequency of wildfire events in different parts of Arctic tundra ecosystems. Contemporary studies have largely attributed these wildfire events to the Arctic’s rapidly changing climate and increased atmospheric disturbances (i.e. thunderstorms). However, existing...