Articles | Volume 15, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-1331-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-1331-2015
Research article
 | 
23 Jun 2015
Research article |  | 23 Jun 2015

Size of wildfires in the Euro-Mediterranean region: observations and theoretical analysis

C. Hernandez, P. Drobinski, S. Turquety, and J.-L. Dupuy

Related authors

Statistical modelling of wildfire size and intensity: a step toward meteorological forecasting of summer extreme fire risk
C. Hernandez, C. Keribin, P. Drobinski, and S. Turquety
Ann. Geophys., 33, 1495–1506, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-33-1495-2015,https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-33-1495-2015, 2015
How much does weather control fire size and intensity in the Mediterranean region?
C. Hernandez, P. Drobinski, and S. Turquety
Ann. Geophys., 33, 931–939, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-33-931-2015,https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-33-931-2015, 2015

Related subject area

Other Hazards (e.g., Glacial and Snow Hazards, Karst, Wildfires Hazards, and Medical Geo-Hazards)
The Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) v.2
Grant Statham and Cam Campbell
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 1113–1137, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1113-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1113-2025, 2025
Short summary
Review article: A scoping review of human factors in avalanche decision-making
Audun Hetland, Rebecca A. Hetland, Tarjei Tveito Skille, and Andrea Mannberg
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 929–948, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-929-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-929-2025, 2025
Short summary
A quantitative module of avalanche hazard – comparing forecaster assessments of storm and persistent slab avalanche problems with information derived from distributed snowpack simulations
Florian Herla, Pascal Haegeli, Simon Horton, and Patrick Mair
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 625–646, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-625-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-625-2025, 2025
Short summary
Modelling current and future forest fire susceptibility in north-eastern Germany
Katharina H. Horn, Stenka Vulova, Hanyu Li, and Birgit Kleinschmit
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 383–401, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-383-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-383-2025, 2025
Short summary
The effect of propagation saw test geometries on critical cut length
Bastian Bergfeld, Karl W. Birkeland, Valentin Adam, Philipp L. Rosendahl, and Alec van Herwijnen
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 321–334, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-321-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-321-2025, 2025
Short summary

Cited articles

Alexandridis, A., Vakalis, D., Siettos, C. I., and Bafas, G. V.: A cellular automata model for forest fire spread prediction: The case of the wildfire that swept through spetses island in 1990, Appl. Math. Comput., 204, 191–201, 2008.
Alvarado, E., Sandberg, D. V., and Pickford, S. G.: Modelling large forest fires as extreme events, Northw. Sci., 72, 66–75, 2008.
Barriopedro, D., Fischer, E. M., Luterbacher, J., Trigo, R. M., and Garcia-Herrera, R.:The hot summer of 2010: redrawing the temperature record map of Europe Science, 332, 220–224, 2011.
Batllori, E., Parisien, M. A., Krawchuk, M. A., and Moritz, M. A.: Climate change-induced shifts in fire for Mediterranean ecosystems, Global Ecol. Biogeogr., 22, 1118–1129, 2013.
Bedia, J., Herrera, S., and Gutiérrez, J. M.: Assessing the predictability of fire occurrence and area burned across phytoclimatic regions in Spain, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 14, 53–66, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-53-2014, 2014.
Download
Share
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint