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Title: Fires in Portugal on 15th October 2017: a catastrophic evolution
Authors: Novo, Ilda
Pinto, Paulo
Rio, João
Gouveia, Célia
Keywords: Weather Pattern;Anomaly;Hurricane;Forest Fire Risk;Pyroconvective Plume
Issue Date: 2018
Publisher: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra
Journal: http://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/44517
Abstract: In 2017 Portugal mainland was affected by two events with major forest fires, that caused a large number of casualties and extensive property loss. Both events happened outside the typical forest fire season, which goes between July 1st to September 30th. Severe drought since the early spring 2017 and extreme heat in the summer are factors that may lead enhance the size, severity and spread rate of forest fires (Pereira et al, 2015). On October 15th, a number of factors joined together simultaneously: very low humidity in both the boundary layer and cumulated biomass (Gouveia et al., 2012), unseasonably high temperatures and a tropical cyclone (Ophelia) located to the west of Iberia, enhancing a south-easterly flow over mainland Portugal. The combination of these factors leads to a record number of forest fires in a single day with serious consequences, including the loss of lives and property.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/44522
ISBN: 978-989-26-16-506 (PDF)
DOI: 10.14195/978-989-26-16-506_5
Rights: open access
Appears in Collections:Advances in forest fire research 2018

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