NHESS Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences NHESS Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 1684-9981 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/nhess-10-723-2010 Temporal patterns of fire sequences observed in Canton of Ticino (southern Switzerland) Telesca L. 1 Kanevski M. 2 Tonini M. 2 Pezzatti G. B. 3 Conedera M. 3 Istituto di Metodologie per l'Analisi Ambientale, CNR, C. da S. Loja, 85050 Tito (PZ), Italy Institut of Geomatics and Analysis of Risk, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland WSL Swiss Federal Research Institute, Insubric Ecosystems Research Group, via Belsoggiorno 22, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland 13 04 2010 10 4 723 728 Copyright: © 2010 L. Telesca et al. 2010 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/10/723/2010/nhess-10-723-2010.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/10/723/2010/nhess-10-723-2010.pdf

Temporal dynamical analysis in fire sequences recorded from 1969 to 2008 in Canton Ticino (Switzerland) was carried out by using the Allan Factor statistics. The obtained results show the presence of daily periodicities, superimposed to two time-scaling regimes. The daily cycle vanishes for sequences of higher altitude fires, for which a single scaling behaviour is observed.

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