The FireMIP paper describing the benchmarking of fire-enabled vegetation model simulations of the historic period is now out in Geoscientific Model Development (https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3299-2020). The team, led by Stijn Hantson, have…Read More >
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World Without Fire: Another FireMIP paper is out! By Sandy Harrison
The paper “Global ecosystems and fire: a multi-model assessment of fire-induced tree cover and carbon storage reduction” (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.15160), led by Gitta Lasslop (Senckenberg: https://www.senckenberg.de/en/institutes/sbik-f/biodiversity-and-ecosystem-services/team-biodiversitaet-und-oekosystemdienstleistungen-im-erdsystem/) has come out today. This paper…Read More >
Recent global and regional trends in Wildfire behaviour. By Sandy Harrison
In 2017, Andela et al. (Science) indicated that there had been a global decline in burnt are over the last two decades and specifically attributed this to anthropogenic activities. Furthermore,…Read More >
EGU 2019. By Sandy Harrison
The SPECIAL group was part of the annual migration of European scientists to Vienna for the European Geosciences Union annual meeting again this year. The SISAL group was well represented…Read More >
FireMIP Sensitivity Experiments. By Sandy Harrison
It is very exciting to see that the FireMIP paper on the sensitivity of burnt area to environmental and anthropogenic controls, led by Lina Teckentrup, is now out in Biogeosciences…Read More >
Four in one blow. By Sandy Harrison
I feel like the tailor in Grimm’s Das tapfere Schneiderlein today, with four papers being submitted in one day. Dongyang’s persistence on getting the Villarquemado climate reconstruction paper submitted before…Read More >
What are the key variables that control global fire patterns? By Sandy Harrison
Our new paper on the emergent relationships between key climate, vegetation and socioeconomic variables and burned area as seen in satellite observations and as captured by fire-enabled vegetation models has…Read More >
