Australian 2019-2020 extreme bushfires
Cobargo (likely lightning)
Kangaroo Island (likely lightning)
Northwest of Sydney (likely lightning)
ACT (helicopter crash)
Kangaroo Island (likely lightning)
Northwest of Sydney (likely lightning)
ACT (helicopter crash)
Things to look for when attributing NSW fires to climate change
Australian fire danger trends
Royal Commission
Australian fire danger trends
Royal Commission
Further reading:
Royal Commission
Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) special climate statement on extreme heat and fire weather in December 2019 and January 2020
Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) special climate statement on dangerous bushfire weather in spring 2019
Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) special climate statement on severe fire weather conditions in southeast Queensland and northeast New South Wales in September 2019
World Weather Attribution (WWA) study
Attribution study data
Bushfires CRC
Australian Seasonal Bushfire Outlook: September - November 2020
Australian hot and dry extremes induced by weakenings of the stratospheric polar vortex
Impact of Australia's catastrophic 2019/20 bushfire season on communities and environment. Retrospective analysis and current trends
January 2020 NSW bushfires study
Cultural burning practices in Australia (Royal Commission background paper)
Land management – hazard reduction: a literature review (Royal Commission background paper)
The role of climate variability in Australian drought
The extraordinary 2019/20 Australian bushfire season: contributing processes and environmental impacts.
Experimental evidence of the multiple microclimatic impacts of bushfires in affected urban areas: the case of Sydney during the 2019/2020 Australian season.
The 2019/20 eastern Australian mega forest fires - a global forest perspective
Unprecedented health costs of smoke-related PM2.5 from the 2019–20 Australian megafires
Sub‐seasonal to seasonal prediction of rainfall extremes in Australia
Palaeoclimate perspectives on the Indian Ocean Dipole
Severe Weather In a Changing Climate (how Australian severe weather is expected to change with climate change)
Climate Change in Australia Information for Australia’s Natural Resource Management Regions: Technical Report, CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
Climatological Variability of Fire Weather in Australia.
Changes in Australian fire weather between 1973 and 2010.
Climate change effects on the frequency, seasonality and interannual variability of suitable prescribed burning weather conditions in south-eastern Australia.
Tropospheric Forcing of the 2019 Antarctic Sudden Stratospheric Warming
Climate Change Increases the Potential for Extreme Wildfires