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: Masrur, Arif, Petrov, Andrey N, DeGroote, John
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: climate variability; climate change; tundra wildfire; climate feedback; circumpolar Arctic; Arctic; Merra; Climate change; Tundra
• Online Access: https://repository.publisso.de/resource/frl:6417973; https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa9a76

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, exis...