An Assessment of the Role of Anthropogenic Climate Change in the Alaska Fire Season of 2015

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• Journal Title:
  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
• Personal Author:
  Partain, James L. ; Alden, Sharon ; Strader, Heidi ; Bhatt, Uma S. ; Bieniek, Peter A. ; Brettschneider, Brian R. ; Walsh, John E. ; Lader, Rick T. ; Olsson, Peter Q. ; Rupp, T. Scott ; Thoman, Richard L. ; York, Alison D. ; Ziel, Robert H.
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• NOAA Program & Office:
  OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; CPO (Climate Program Office) ; NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) ; NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information) ; NWS (National Weather Service) ; AR (Alaska Region) ; CIFAR (Cooperative Institute for Alaska Research)
• 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
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0149.1
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA16OAR4310142
• Place as Subject:
  Alaska
• Rights Information:
  Other
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/28370/noaa_28370_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.07 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) ; NOAA Cooperative Institutes ; National Weather Service (NWS) ; National Environmental Satellite and Data Information Service (NESDIS)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:232eb6d02178226d78dfd570acf7c7b18316d055be1b4d07e919622da3e1d6cd