Forest fires in Finland - the influence of atmospheric oscillations
In Finland, in the period 1996-2017, 28,434 forest fires were recorded (an average of 1,292.5 per year), and the total burned area was 11,922 ha (an average of 541.9 ha per year). In both cases, a statistically nonsignificant downward trend was recorded. Forest fires in Finland do not represent a pa...
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ftdoiserbia:oai:doiserbia:0350-75991901075M 2023-05-15T15:07:05+02:00 Forest fires in Finland - the influence of atmospheric oscillations Milenković Milan Ducić Vladan Mihajlović Jovan Burić Dragan Babić Violeta 2019 https://doi.org/10.2298/IJGI1901075M unknown forest fires Finland NAO AO Lomb periodogram . 69(1) 75-82 2019 ftdoiserbia https://doi.org/10.2298/IJGI1901075M 2019-07-23T14:34:02Z In Finland, in the period 1996-2017, 28,434 forest fires were recorded (an average of 1,292.5 per year), and the total burned area was 11,922 ha (an average of 541.9 ha per year). In both cases, a statistically nonsignificant downward trend was recorded. Forest fires in Finland do not represent a particularly significant problem, primarily due to climatic characteristics, well-organized fire protection, and low density of population. The research of climate influence included the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), and the Arctic Oscillation (AO). The statistically significant values (p ≤ .05) of Pearson correlation coefficient were recorded for the August values of NAO and the surface area of burned forest (−0.44), the June values of NAO and the average surface area of forest burned per fire (−0.51) and the May AO values and the average surface area of forest burned per fire (−0.45). For the June values of NAO and the average surface area of forest burned per fire, the Lomb periodogram shows four significant peaks, and the match is at two, at 2.4 and 3.4 years, which supports the hypothesis of the connection between NAO and forest fires in Finland. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 47007 III] Other/Unknown Material Arctic North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation doiSerbia (National Library of Serbia/KoBSON) Arctic Journal of the Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijic, SASA 69 1 75 82 |
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In Finland, in the period 1996-2017, 28,434 forest fires were recorded (an average of 1,292.5 per year), and the total burned area was 11,922 ha (an average of 541.9 ha per year). In both cases, a statistically nonsignificant downward trend was recorded. Forest fires in Finland do not represent a particularly significant problem, primarily due to climatic characteristics, well-organized fire protection, and low density of population. The research of climate influence included the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), and the Arctic Oscillation (AO). The statistically significant values (p ≤ .05) of Pearson correlation coefficient were recorded for the August values of NAO and the surface area of burned forest (−0.44), the June values of NAO and the average surface area of forest burned per fire (−0.51) and the May AO values and the average surface area of forest burned per fire (−0.45). For the June values of NAO and the average surface area of forest burned per fire, the Lomb periodogram shows four significant peaks, and the match is at two, at 2.4 and 3.4 years, which supports the hypothesis of the connection between NAO and forest fires in Finland. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 47007 III] |
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Milenković Milan Ducić Vladan Mihajlović Jovan Burić Dragan Babić Violeta |
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Forest fires in Finland - the influence of atmospheric oscillations |
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Forest fires in Finland - the influence of atmospheric oscillations |
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