Wildfires Under Current Climatic Conditions and Global Warming: Susceptibility of the Brazilian environment to wildfires - Softcover

Sales De Melo, Anailton; Justino, Flavio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 6208310598 ISBN 13: 9786208310592

Verlag: Our Knowledge Publishing, 2024

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Globally, wildfires are the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. An important step towards reducing the impacts of fires is to investigate the susceptibility of a given environment to burning or even to the spread of fire (fire risk). Given the need to understand the possible implications of changes in atmospheric circulation in the near future, this study aims to investigate the susceptibility of the environment to the occurrence of fires, based on two fire risk indices (Haines Index (HI) and Setzer Index (SI)). To this end, numerical modeling data from the ECHAM5/MPI-OM model and NCEP reanalysis data are used to calculate these indices for two periods: current (1980-2000) and climate projections for the end of the century (2080-2100). The comparison between the results proposed by the IH and the IS shows that Setzer's methodology intensifies the maximum risk level. Under Global Warming (GW) conditions, an increase in the risk area was observed, especially for the Amazon region in both data sets.

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Anailton Sales de Melo studeerde in september 1996 af in natuurkunde aan de Staatsuniversiteit van Paraíba (UEPB). Hij heeft een mastergraad in landbouwmeteorologie met als specialisatie klimatologie van de Federale Universiteit van Viçosa (UFV).

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• Verlag: Our Knowledge Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 6208310598
• ISBN 13: 9786208310592
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 76
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