Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 20, issue 12
Articles | Volume 20, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-3439-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-3439-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 20, issue 12
Research article
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14 Dec 2020
Research article |  | 14 Dec 2020

A classification scheme to determine wildfires from the satellite record in the cool grasslands of southern Canada: considerations for fire occurrence modelling and warning criteria

Dan K. Thompson and Kimberly Morrison

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We describe critically low relative humidity and high wind speeds above which only documented wildfires were seen to occur and where no agricultural fires were documented in southern Canada. We then applied these thresholds to the much larger satellite record from 2002–2018 to quantify regional differences in both the rate of observed burning and the number of days with critical weather conditions to sustain a wildfire in this grassland and agricultural region.
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