Articles | Volume 20, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-995-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-995-2020
Research article
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27 Jan 2020
Research article |  | 27 Jan 2020

Using CESM-RESFire to understand climate–fire–ecosystem interactions and the implications for decadal climate variability

Yufei Zou, Yuhang Wang, Yun Qian, Hanqin Tian, Jia Yang, and Ernesto Alvarado

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Fire is a natural phenomenon that has a long history of interactions with the environment and human activity. The complex interactions were less represented in previous fire and climate models. Here we use a new global fire model with improved modeling capability to study how fire responds and contributes to climate change. The modeling results show increased global fire activity in the future driven by climate change, which in turn modulates local and remote climate and ecosystems.
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