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Analysis of lightning-induced forest fires in Austria by Müller, Mortimer M., Vacik, Harald, Diendorfer, Gerhard, Arpaci, Alexander, Formayer, Herbert, Gossow, Hartmut

“…Besides human-caused fires, lightning is the major reason for forest fire ignition in Austria. In order to analyse the causes of ignition and to characterise…”
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Anomalies of the Austrian Forest Fire Regime in Comparison with Other Alpine Countries: A Research Note by Mortimer M. Müller, Harald Vacik, Eva Valese

“…In recent years, Austria has experienced highly variable forest fire activity with new record values regarding the number of fires and sizes of burned areas…”
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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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Towards an integrated forest fire danger assessment system for the European Alps by Müller, Mortimer M., Vilà-Vilardell, Lena, Vacik, Harald

“…In recent years the European Alps experienced higher temperatures, more heatwaves, and more severe wildfires. Improving fire danger assessment for these…”
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Characteristics of lightnings igniting forest fires in Austria by Müller, Mortimer M., Vacik, Harald

“…•Positive lightnings are significantly more likely to induce a forest fire.•Fire weather index values are significantly lower one day after ignition.•Mean…”
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Effects of interaction between forest structure and precipitation event characteristics on fuel moisture conditions by Diószegi, Gergő, Immitzer, Markus, Müller, Mortimer M., Vacik, Harald

“…•Fine fuel moisture codes of various spatial scales can be similar.•Forest structure buffering capability slows fine fuel moisture saturation speed.•Moisture…”
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