New Study Links Western U.S. Wildfires To Atlantic Ocean Surface Temperatures

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 Catastrophe Property

Western U.S. wildfires are likely to increase in the coming decades, according to a new tree-ring study led by the University of Comahue in Argentina and involving the University of Colorado at Boulder that links episodic fire outbreaks in the past five centuries with periods of warming sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic.

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http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2006/452.html

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