TY - JOUR
T1 - Unprecedented burn area of Australian mega forest fires
AU - Boer, Matthias M.
AU - Resco de Dios, Victor
AU - Bradstock, Ross A.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Between September 2019 and early January 2020, around 5.8 million hectares of mainly temperate broadleaf forest were burned in New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria (VIC) in eastern Australia by a series of mega fires. Many of the fires have exceeded 100,000 ha and continued to burn for weeks after their ignition1. The Gospers Mountain fire near Sydney has burned more than 510,000 ha since ignition by lightning on 26 October 2019; it is the largest forest fire recorded in Australia and continues to burn in late January 2020.
AB - Between September 2019 and early January 2020, around 5.8 million hectares of mainly temperate broadleaf forest were burned in New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria (VIC) in eastern Australia by a series of mega fires. Many of the fires have exceeded 100,000 ha and continued to burn for weeks after their ignition1. The Gospers Mountain fire near Sydney has burned more than 510,000 ha since ignition by lightning on 26 October 2019; it is the largest forest fire recorded in Australia and continues to burn in late January 2020.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:60456
U2 - 10.1038/s41558-020-0716-1
DO - 10.1038/s41558-020-0716-1
M3 - Article
SN - 1758-678X
VL - 10
SP - 171
EP - 172
JO - Nature Climate Change
JF - Nature Climate Change
ER -