Fires, and especially large forest fires (LFF), are the main drivers of land degradation in forest areas in Mediterranean sub-humid regions and are likely to increase as a result of climate and other global changes. The study area consists of the whole of mainland Portugal, which for the ...
Portugal has been experiencing the worst drought in years. Drought and the dry conditions that follow lead to wildfires set by just a spark or a lightning strike. Portugal's north has been plagued with wildfires due to these such conditions. Spain and France have joined their firefight lending ...
A record 500,000 hectares burned in Portugal during the extreme wildfire season of 2017, with more than 120 human lives lost. Here we analyse the climatic factors responsible for the burned area (BA) from June to October series in Portugal for the period 1980–2017. Superposed onto a substan...
and the northern and central areas have low to moderate wildfire susceptibility. The FHRF map shows flood susceptibility to be high to very high in the western and southeastern parts of the province and low to moderate s in the north
The Suomi NPP satellite's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument captured a look at multiple fires and smoke burning in the Pacific Northwest on September 28, 2017. Accompanying the fires are patches to snow already falling in
And protests have erupted across Europe, with farmers angry in Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands,Germanyand Italy. Image:People take cover behind a barrier outside the European Parliament. Pic: Reuters Elections on horizon While the issues around farming were not on the agenda for the m...
byEuropean Space Agency Credit: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2017), processed by KNMI The new Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite captured the presence of elevated absorbing aerosols – caused by fires – in the atmosphere off the west coast of the US on 12 December 2017. ...
In Western Europe, which was already suffering from severe drought, the heatwave fueled fires that raged across Spain, Portugal, and parts of France. InPortugal, temperatures soared to 113 degrees Fahrenheit (45 degrees Celsius) on July 13 in the town of Leiria, where more than 3,000 hectares...
1. X - x-axis spatial coordinate within the Montesinho park map: 1 to 9 2. Y - y-axis spatial coordinate within the Montesinho park map: 2 to 9 3. month - month of the year: "jan" to "dec" 4. day - day of the week: "mon" to "sun" 5. FFMC - FFMC index from the ...
UniversityofMinho,Portugal. AníbalMorais,araimorais'@'gmail,DepartmentofInformationSystems, UniversityofMinho,Portugal. DataSetInformation: In[CortezandMorais,2007],theoutput'area'wasfirsttransformedwitha ln(x+1)function. Then,severalDataMiningmethodswereapplied.Afterfittingthemodels,the ...