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Mike Peltier's avatar

What explains the 10 year cycle of highest wildfire activity shown in Fig 1. ?

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Rick Thoman's avatar

Interesting question that I don't have an answer for. Given there's less than 40 years of data, the risk of any single explanation "overfitting" is high.

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Michael's avatar

Very high!

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Michael's avatar

For a boots on the ground view of the Canadian boreal fires of 8 years past, read Vaillant's great Fire Season book that came out last year. It's stunning.

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