Are you aware about any studies on the adaptation of the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) for arctic vegetation types and climate?

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Ebrahim Ghaderpour

Hi Enrica,

I think this is an interesting topic to conduct research on. Below, I have listed five articles for your reference that I think described the scenarios well. The last reference excluded parts of the Canadian and Russian high Arctic.

https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049609354537

Article Fire Danger Observed from Space

Article A Comparison of Fire Weather Indices with MODIS Fire Days fo...

https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-185815/v1_stamped.pdf?c=1615310675

Article Development of a Global Fire Weather Database

All the best,

Ebrahim

Shelby L Alsup

Enrica. Curious if you are looking (within the search in the literature, or perhaps in your own research) at geocoding/matching with the FWI within the forests?