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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE
Volume 18, Issue 4, Pages 476-482Publisher
CSIRO PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1071/WF07034
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- US Forest Service National Fire Plan grant [01.SRSA4]
- [01-DG-11330136-359]
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Since 1991, the Florida Division of Forestry has been making seasonal fire severity forecasts based on a relationship between area burned in Florida and El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The present study extends the original analysis on which these forecasts are based and attempts to augment it with the addition of other patterns of climate variability. Two atmospheric teleconnection patterns, the North Atlantic Oscillation and Pacific-North American pattern, are examined as potential indicators of seasonal and monthly area burned in Florida. Although ENSO was the only climate index to show a significant correlation to area burned in Florida, the Pacific-North American pattern (PNA) is shown to be a factor influencing fire season severity although the relationship is not monotonic and therefore not revealed by correlation analysis.
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