Jan 12, 2017
EEE 2015: An Assessment of the Role of Anthropogenic Climate Change in the Alaska Fire Season of 2015
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Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Main finding:
The 2015 Alaska fire season burned the second largest number of acres since records began in 1940. Human-induced climate change may have increased the risk of a fire season of this severity by 34%–60%.
Open source PDF available here
Longer report:
EEE 2015: Explaining Extreme Events of 2015 from a Climate Perspective