Are Climate Extremities Changing Forest Fire Regimes in India? An Analysis Using MODIS Fire Locations During 2003–2013 and Gridded Climate Data of India Meteorological Department

The occurrence of forest fire in India, and their interrelationship with causal drivers i.e. climate (temperature, rainfall, dry-days, El Niño), fuel status (forest types, Normalised Difference Vegetation Index) and anthropogenic disturbances (distance from road and settlements, population density)...

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Published in:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India, Section A, physical sciences India, Section A, physical sciences, 2017-12, Vol.87 (4), p.827-843
Main Authors: Kale, Manish P., Ramachandran, Reshma M., Pardeshi, Satish N., Chavan, Manoj, Joshi, P. K., Pai, D. S., Bhavani, P., Ashok, K., Roy, P. S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anomalies
Applied and Technical Physics
Atomic
Confidence intervals
El Nino
Forests
MODIS
Molecular
Optical and Plasma Physics
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Population density
Quantum Physics
Rainfall
Research Article
Sea surface temperature
Surface temperature
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Summary:The occurrence of forest fire in India, and their interrelationship with causal drivers i.e. climate (temperature, rainfall, dry-days, El Niño), fuel status (forest types, Normalised Difference Vegetation Index) and anthropogenic disturbances (distance from road and settlements, population density) were investigated. The Nino3 sea surface temperature index was used based on sea surface temperature anomalies recorded from February to June (fire season in India) through the years 2003–2013. This was used as the representative index of El Niño southern oscillations (ENSO). The correlations among different causal drivers and fire occurrence were investigated for the entire country and different bio-geographic zones within the country. In India, the forest fire were significantly (significance f 
ISSN:0369-8203
2250-1762
DOI:10.1007/s40010-017-0452-8