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Research article - Peer-reviewed, 2022

Were meteorological conditions related to the 2020 Siberia wildfires made more likely by anthropogenic climate change?

Liu, Zhongwei; Eden, Jonathan M.; Dieppois, Bastien; Drobyshev, Igor; Gallo, Carolina; Blackett, Matthew

Abstract

The meteorological conditions that coincided with extreme wildfires in Siberia during 2020 were up to 80% more likely than a century ago as a result of global warming.

Published in

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
2022, volume: 103, number: 3, pages: S44-S49

Authors' information

Liu, Zhongwei
Coventry University
Eden, Jonathan M.
Coventry University
Dieppois, Bastien
Coventry University
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre
Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)
Russian Academy of Sciences
Gallo, Carolina
Coventry University
Blackett, Matthew
Coventry University

UKÄ Subject classification

Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
Climate Research

Publication Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0168.1

URI (permanent link to this page)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/114717