Articles | Volume 16, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-3601-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-3601-2024
Review article
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14 Aug 2024
Review article |  | 14 Aug 2024

State of Wildfires 2023–2024

Matthew W. Jones, Douglas I. Kelley, Chantelle A. Burton, Francesca Di Giuseppe, Maria Lucia F. Barbosa, Esther Brambleby, Andrew J. Hartley, Anna Lombardi, Guilherme Mataveli, Joe R. McNorton, Fiona R. Spuler, Jakob B. Wessel, John T. Abatzoglou, Liana O. Anderson, Niels Andela, Sally Archibald, Dolors Armenteras, Eleanor Burke, Rachel Carmenta, Emilio Chuvieco, Hamish Clarke, Stefan H. Doerr, Paulo M. Fernandes, Louis Giglio, Douglas S. Hamilton, Stijn Hantson, Sarah Harris, Piyush Jain, Crystal A. Kolden, Tiina Kurvits, Seppe Lampe, Sarah Meier, Stacey New, Mark Parrington, Morgane M. G. Perron, Yuquan Qu, Natasha S. Ribeiro, Bambang H. Saharjo, Jesus San-Miguel-Ayanz, Jacquelyn K. Shuman, Veerachai Tanpipat, Guido R. van der Werf, Sander Veraverbeke, and Gavriil Xanthopoulos

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • CC1: 'Review period', Robert Gieseke, 13 Jun 2024
  • RC1: 'Comment on essd-2024-218', Piers M. Forster, 21 Jun 2024
  • RC2: 'Comment on essd-2024-218', David Carlson, 26 Jun 2024
  • RC3: 'Comment on essd-2024-218', Marco Turco, 27 Jun 2024
  • AC1: 'Comment on essd-2024-218', Matthew Jones, 24 Jul 2024

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload
AR by Matthew Jones on behalf of the Authors (25 Jul 2024)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (29 Jul 2024) by Francesco N. Tubiello
AR by Matthew Jones on behalf of the Authors (31 Jul 2024)  Manuscript 
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Short summary
This inaugural State of Wildfires report catalogues extreme fires of the 2023–2024 fire season. For key events, we analyse their predictability and drivers and attribute them to climate change and land use. We provide a seasonal outlook and decadal projections. Key anomalies occurred in Canada, Greece, and western Amazonia, with other high-impact events catalogued worldwide. Climate change significantly increased the likelihood of extreme fires, and mitigation is required to lessen future risk.
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