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Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-847-2018
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Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
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16 Mar 2018
Research article |  | 16 Mar 2018

Extreme wildfire events are linked to global-change-type droughts in the northern Mediterranean

Julien Ruffault, Thomas Curt, Nicolas K. Martin-StPaul, Vincent Moron, and Ricardo M. Trigo

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Extreme wildfires events (EWE) have been recorded during the past year in the Mediterranean. By analyzing the climatic conditions associated with the French 2003 and 2016 fires seasons, we found that EWE were associated to two distinct climatic events whose frequencies are both expected to increase with global changes: hot droughts and long droughts. These results suggest that EWE are likely to become more common in the future and will certainly challenge fire management.
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