Journal article
Climate Change Amplifications of Climate-Fire Teleconnections in the Southern Hemisphere
M Mariani, A Holz, TT Veblen, G Williamson, MS Fletcher, DMJS Bowman
Geophysical Research Letters | AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION | Published : 2018
DOI: 10.1029/2018GL078294
Abstract
Recent changes in trend and variability of the main Southern Hemisphere climate modes are driven by a variety of factors, including increasing atmospheric greenhouse gases, changes in tropical sea surface temperature, and stratospheric ozone depletion and recovery. One of the most important implications for climatic change is its effect via climate teleconnections on natural ecosystems, water security, and fire variability in proximity to populated areas, thus threatening human lives and properties. Only sparse and fragmentary knowledge of relationships between teleconnections, lightning strikes, and fire is available during the observed record within the Southern Hemisphere. This constitute..
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Funding Acknowledgements
M. M. was supported by AINSE (Australian Institute for Nuclear Science and Engineering) Postgraduate Research Award 12039. Andres Holz was supported by U.S. National Science Foundation (awards 0956552, 0966472, and 1738104) and Australian Research Council (grant DP110101950). We thank Lachie McCaw for providing the raw data from Western Australia. We are thankful to D. Thompson and C. McLandress for providing the SAM projections data. We also thank the Wildfire PIRE research group for insightful comments on initial results. Data can be obtained through the sources listed in Table S1 (supporting information). M. M. conducted data collection, analysis, interpretation, and led the manuscript writing; A. H. conceived ideas and helped with data analysis, interpretation, and manuscript editing; T. V. helped with ideas development and manuscript editing; G. W. helped with data analysis and manuscript editing; M.- S. F. and D. B. helped with interpretation and manuscript editing. Authors declare no competing financial interests. Correspondence should be addressed to M. M. and A. H.