At a NASA Earth meeting 10 years ago, a white male post doc interrupted me to tell me that I didn’t understand human drivers of fire, that I def needed to read McCarty et al.
Looked him in the eye, pulled my long hair back so he could read my name tag.
This is a Half a degree Additional warming, Prognosis and Projected Impacts (HAPPI) project - an attempt to answer the questions set by policymakers under the Paris Agreement for "pre-industrial warming."
Friday deep dive into #ArcticFires of Siberia, focusing on the 8,000+ fires detected by MODIS & VIIRS satellites between May 2020 and mid-July 2020 at latitudes above 70°N. (A thread).
Important to note that Arctic fire regimes are not novel, but seem to be increasing in number. Here, @iccinet Climate Change Intern and @StOlaf undergraduate student, @BradenPohl, maps fires for last 3 years in northern Krasnoyarsk Krai and Sakha Republic.
Braden and @jj_fain created this fire density heatmap in @qgis, highlighting that certain areas tend to burn regularly, like northern Krasnoyarsk Krai, along Lena River, south of Yana Bay, and south of East Siberian Sea. Human-caused fires? Start looking here.