What is it about?
The study brings new light to the synergistic effect between fuel availability and weather conditions that created extraordinary conditions for fire propagation during the 2007 Southern Greece exceptional fire season. We evaluate the relationship of drought, heatwaves and wildfires during 2007 fire season. We evaluate the impact of drought on vegetation dynamics on the months preceding the fire season using NDVI.
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We quantify the drought event of 2007, we present a synoptic view of the two heatwaves in July and August and we assess the impact of these two extreme climate events in vegetation dynamics of different vegetation communities during the whole phenological cycle. We show that the extreme fire season of 2007 was driven by two complementary climatic extreme drivers including a major drought in preceding months and two major heatwaves in July and August.
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This page is a summary of: The outstanding synergy between drought, heatwaves and fuel on the 2007 Southern Greece exceptional fire season, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, March 2016, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.11.023.
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