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An Assessment of the Role of Anthropogenic Climate Change in the Alaska Fire Season of 2015
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2016
Source: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 97(12), S14-S18
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Journal Title:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
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Description:The 2015 Alaska fire season burned 5.1
million acres, the second largest burned area since
1940, exceeded only by the 2004 Alaska fire season
when 6.2 million acres burned (Fig. 4.1a). Despite
a below normal end-of-winter snowpack and an
unseasonably warm spring with earlier snowmelt,
which dried fuels early in the season, scattered
showers and cool temperatures kept 2015 fire activity
near normal through early June. During the first
half of June, several days of maximum temperatures
exceeded 30˚C, relative humidity (RH) values were
in the teens, and long daylight hours quickly dried
surface and subsurface (duff) forest-floor fuels.
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Source:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 97(12), S14-S18
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