With support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Science and Environmental Conservation programs, UC Irvine's Department of Earth System Science has worked to develop a system for forecasting fire season severity and droughts in several tropical forest and savanna regions, based on satellite measurements and computer modeling.
Now, that research support has in turn helped to yield findings from UC Irvine and NASA that were just published in Geophysical Research Letters, and which identify "a remarkably strong link between high wildfire risk in the Amazon basin and the devastating hurricanes that ravage North Atlantic shorelines."
Read the full press release here.
Image: This map of ocean surface temperatures shows how warm waters in the North Atlantic fueled Hurricane Katrina. UCI researchers have found that the same conditions heighten fire risk in the Amazon basin.
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