Projected climate change impact on fire risk and heavy snow loads in the Finnish forests

• Main Author: Lehtonen, Ilari
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Finnish Meteorological Institute 2017
• Subjects: climate change; forest damage; forest fires; FWI index; snow loads; snow damage; boreal forests; Finland; Rime; Kainuu; karelia*; Northern Finland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/214066

The aim of this work was to study the climate change impact on two specific abiotic risks affecting forests in Finland: fires and heavy snow loads. Approximately 1000 forest fires occur annually in Finland, but thanks to effective fire suppression, the average size of fires is only about 0.5 ha. Occ...