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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-239-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-239-2016
Research article
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21 Jan 2016
Research article |  | 21 Jan 2016

Risk of large-scale fires in boreal forests of Finland under changing climate

I. Lehtonen, A. Venäläinen, M. Kämäräinen, H. Peltola, and H. Gregow

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The number of large forest fires in Finland will most likely increase during the twenty-first century in response to projected climate change. This would increase the risk that some of the fires could develop into real conflagrations which have become almost extinct in Finland due to effective fire suppression. However, our results show considerable inter-model variability, demonstrating the large uncertainty related to the rate of the projected change in forest-fire danger.
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