The Southern Annular Mode determines interannual and centennial-scale fire activity in temperate southwest Tasmania, Australia

Michela Mariani; Michael-Shawn Fletcher

Journal article

The Southern Annular Mode determines interannual and centennial-scale fire activity in temperate southwest Tasmania, Australia

Michela Mariani, Michael-Shawn Fletcher

Geophysical Research Letters | AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068082

University of Melbourne Researchers

Michael-Shawn Fletcher Author Geography

Michela Mariani Author Geography

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Funding Acknowledgements

Research was supported by ARC grants DI110100019 and IN140100050. We thank Anthony Romano and William Rapuc for contributing to the charcoal analysis. Thanks to Andres Holz for his important comments and advice on the statistical analysis. We are also grateful for ListMap (Government of Tasmania) for providing the fire occurrence data set of Tasmania. All data employed in this analysis are available through either BOM, NOAA, the British Antarctic Survey, ListMap, or are provided in the supporting information. We also thank two anonymous referees for their comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript.