Flash droughts pull ‘alarming’ amounts of moisture from the landscape and intensify wildfires: new research
By Abhirup Dikshit, ARC DECRA Fellow, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW
Jason Evans, Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW
We have to stop thinking of droughts simply as a static state of low moisture. Rapid drought changes can send fire risk soaring.
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