Impact of 2050 climate change on North American wildfire: consequences for ozone air quality

Abstract. We estimate future area burned in the Alaskan and Canadian forest by the mid-century (2046–2065) based on the simulated meteorology from 13 climate models under the A1B scenario. We develop ecoregion-dependent regressions using observed relationships between annual total area burned and a suite of meteorological variables and fire weather indices, and apply these regressions to the simulated meteorology. We find that for Alaska and western Canada, almost all models predict significant (p

• Publication year

  2015

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  Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

• Publication date

  2015-09-08

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.5194/ACP-15-10033-2015
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