Hurricanes as an enabler of Amazon fires
A teleconnection between North Atlantic tropical storms and Amazon fires is investigated as a possible case of compound remote extreme events. The seasonal cycles of the storms and fires are in phase with a maximum around September and have significant inter-annual correlation. Years of high Amazon...
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| description | A teleconnection between North Atlantic tropical storms and Amazon fires is investigated as a possible case of compound remote extreme events. The seasonal cycles of the storms and fires are in phase with a maximum around September and have significant inter-annual correlation. Years of high Amazon fire activity are associated with atmospheric conditions over the Atlantic which favour tropical cyclones. We propose that anomalous precipitation and latent heating in the Caribbean, partly caused by tropical storms, leads to a thermal circulation response which creates anomalous subsidence and enhances surface solar heating over the Amazon. The Caribbean storms and precipitation anomalies could thus promote favourable atmospheric conditions for Amazon fire. |
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| spelling | ftimperialcol:oai:spiral.imperial.ac.uk:10044/1/90978 2025-01-16T23:38:10+00:00 Hurricanes as an enabler of Amazon fires Tsui, EYL Toumi, R 2021-08-03 http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/90978 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96420-6 eng eng Nature Publishing Group Scientific Reports http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/90978 © The Author(s) 2021. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 8 1 Science & Technology Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics VARIABILITY ATLANTIC RAINFALL SAVANNA AMERICA FOREST Journal Article 2021 ftimperialcol https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96420-6 2024-11-27T05:52:28Z A teleconnection between North Atlantic tropical storms and Amazon fires is investigated as a possible case of compound remote extreme events. The seasonal cycles of the storms and fires are in phase with a maximum around September and have significant inter-annual correlation. Years of high Amazon fire activity are associated with atmospheric conditions over the Atlantic which favour tropical cyclones. We propose that anomalous precipitation and latent heating in the Caribbean, partly caused by tropical storms, leads to a thermal circulation response which creates anomalous subsidence and enhances surface solar heating over the Amazon. The Caribbean storms and precipitation anomalies could thus promote favourable atmospheric conditions for Amazon fire. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Imperial College London: Spiral Scientific Reports 11 1 |
| spellingShingle | Science & Technology Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics VARIABILITY ATLANTIC RAINFALL SAVANNA AMERICA FOREST Tsui, EYL Toumi, R Hurricanes as an enabler of Amazon fires |
| title | Hurricanes as an enabler of Amazon fires |
| title_full | Hurricanes as an enabler of Amazon fires |
| title_fullStr | Hurricanes as an enabler of Amazon fires |
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| title_short | Hurricanes as an enabler of Amazon fires |
| title_sort | hurricanes as an enabler of amazon fires |
| topic | Science & Technology Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics VARIABILITY ATLANTIC RAINFALL SAVANNA AMERICA FOREST |
| topic_facet | Science & Technology Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics VARIABILITY ATLANTIC RAINFALL SAVANNA AMERICA FOREST |
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