Increased Risk of the 2019 Alaskan July Fires due to Anthropogenic Activity in “Explaining Extremes of 2019 from a Climate Perspective"

Author
Yan Yu, John Dunne, Elena Shevliakova, Paul Ginoux, Sergey Malyshev, Jasmin John, John Krasting
Publication Year
2021

Type

Journal Article
Abstract

July 2019 saw record-breaking wildfires burning 3,600 km2 in Alaska. The GFDL Earth system mod-el indicates a threefold increased risk of Alaska’s extreme fires during recent decades due to primarily anthropogenic ignition and secondarily climate-in-duced biofuel abundance.

Keywords
wildfires, anthropogenic acitivity, extreme fires, Alaska
Journal
Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc
Volume
102
Issue
1
Pages
S1-S7
Date Published
January 2021
DOI
10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0154.1
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