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Overwintering fires rising in eastern Siberia by Xu, Wenxuan, Scholten, Rebecca C, Hessilt, Thomas D, Liu, Yongxue, Veraverbeke, Sander

“…Overwintering fires are a historically rare phenomenon but may become more prevalent in the warming boreal region. Overwintering fires have been studied to a…”
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Future increases in lightning ignition efficiency and wildfire occurrence expected from drier fuels in boreal forest ecosystems of western North America by Hessilt, Thomas D, Abatzoglou, John T, Chen, Yang, Randerson, James T, Scholten, Rebecca C, van der Werf, Guido, Veraverbeke, Sander

“…Lightning-induced fire is the primary disturbance agent in boreal forests. Recent large fire years have been linked to anomalously high numbers of…”
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Geographically divergent trends in snow disappearance timing and fire ignitions across boreal North America by Hessilt, Thomas D, Rogers, Brendan M, Scholten, Rebecca C, Potter, Stefano, Janssen, Thomas A. J, Veraverbeke, Sander

“…The snow cover extent across the Northern Hemisphere has diminished, while the number of lightning ignitions and amount of burned area have increased over the…”
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A global database on holdover time of lightning-ignited wildfires by Moris, Jose V, Álvarez-Álvarez, Pedro, Conedera, Marco, Dorph, Annalie, Hessilt, Thomas D, Hunt, Hugh G. P, Libonati, Renata, Menezes, Lucas S, Müller, Mortimer M, Pérez-Invernón, Francisco J, Pezzatti, Gianni B, Pineda, Nicolau, Scholten, Rebecca C, Veraverbeke, Sander, Wotton, B. Mike, Ascoli, Davide

“…Holdover fires are usually associated with lightning-ignited wildfires (LIWs), which can experience a smoldering phase or go undetected for several hours, days…”
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