Lakhasly

Climate warming is likely to have a rapid and profound impact on fi re activity in several vegetation zones.Pausas ( 2004 ) analysed data from 350 meteorological stations in the eastern Iberian Peninsula covering a time period of 50 years (1950-2000) and fi re records for the same area.For the Mediterranean Europe, Pinol et al. ( 1998 ) have studied a climatic series of 50 years from a locality in southern Spain and two fi re hazard indices, and concluded that an effect of climate warming on wildfi re occur- rence is evident.He concluded that a clear pattern of increasing num- ber of fi res and size of area burned during the last century is observed, related to increasing mean annual as well as summer temperatures

Climate warming is likely to have a rapid and profound impact on fi re activity in
several vegetation zones. For the Mediterranean Europe, Piñol et al. ( 1998 ) have
studied a climatic series of 50 years from a locality in southern Spain and two fi re
hazard indices, and concluded that an effect of climate warming on wildfi re occur-
rence is evident. Pausas ( 2004 ) analysed data from 350 meteorological stations in
the eastern Iberian Peninsula covering a time period of 50 years (1950–2000) and
fi re records for the same area. He concluded that a clear pattern of increasing num-
ber of fi res and size of area burned during the last century is observed, related to
increasing mean annual as well as summer temperatures