Improving Predictability of Circumboreal Forest Fire Activity and its Ecological and Socio-Economic Impacts through Multi-Proxy Data Comparisons

PREREAL

Call

  • Climate

Project Website

Principal Investigator

Igor Drobyshev, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

Partners

Adam Ali, University of Montpellier II, France Annika Hofgaard, Norwegian Inst. for Nature Research, Norway Rui LI, University of Science and Technology of China, China Peter van Velthoven, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, Netherlands Yves Bergeron, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Funders

  • ANR (The French National Research Agency), FORMAS (The Swedish Research Council), NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China), NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), RCN (Research Council of Norway)

Project Objective

PREREAL will identify climatic drivers controlling boreal fire activity and its predictability at monthly, seasonal and annual timescales by relying on analyses of multiple proxies of modern and historic fire activity, and climate-ocean variability. PREREAL will also provide monthly to century-scale predictions of future fire activity and to translate these into impacts on ecosystem services and metrics of socio-economic performance.

Call Objective

This call aims to contribute to the overall challenge of developing climate services with a focus on inter-regional linkages role in climate variability and predictability. Major impediments indeed still exist having efficient climate services at regional and local level, because of little or poorly understood climate processes (in part caused by a paucity of observations), inadequate dissemination of scientific knowledge, conflicts between climatic and non-climatic stressors and lack of action by decision makers and the human society at large. This call aims to contribute to the overall challenge of developing climate services with a focus on inter-regional linkages role in climate variability and predictability. Major impediments indeed still exist having efficient climate services at regional and local level, because of little or poorly understood climate processes (in part caused by a paucity of observations), inadequate dissemination of scientific knowledge, conflicts between climatic and non-climatic stressors and lack of action by decision makers and the human society at large. This call aims to contribute to the overall challenge of developing climate services with a focus on inter-regional linkages role in climate variability and predictability. Major impediments indeed still exist having efficient climate services at regional and local level, because of little or poorly understood climate processes (in part caused by a paucity of observations), inadequate dissemination of scientific knowledge, conflicts between climatic and non-climatic stressors and lack of action by decision makers and the human society at large.

Region

Country

Duration

Call Date

April 6, 2015

Project Award Date

2015