Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Natural Hazards
and Earth System Sciences
Natural Hazards
and Earth System Sciences
Articles | Volume 22, issue 10
Articles | Volume 22, issue 10
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 3143–3165, 2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-3143-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 3143–3165, 2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-3143-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 22, issue 10
Research article
06 Oct 2022
Research article | 06 Oct 2022

The 2017 Split wildfire in Croatia: evolution and the role of meteorological conditions

Ivana Čavlina Tomašević et al.

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One of the most severe and impactful urban wildfire events in Croatian history has been reconstructed and analyzed. The study identified some important meteorological influences related to the event: the synoptic conditions of the Azores anticyclone, cold front, and upper-level shortwave trough all led to the highest fire weather index in 2017. A low-level jet, locally known as bura wind that can be explained by hydraulic jump theory, was the dynamic trigger of the event.
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