The April 2021 Cape Town wildfire: has anthropogenic climate change altered the likelihood of extreme fire weather?

Zhongwei Liu; Jonathan M. Eden; Bastien Dieppois; W. Stefaan Conradie; Matthew Blackett

doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0204.1

The April 2021 Cape Town wildfire: has anthropogenic climate change altered the likelihood of extreme fire weather?

Zhongwei Liu, Jonathan M. Eden, Bastien Dieppois, W. Stefaan Conradie, Matthew Blackett

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CMIP6 models suggest that extreme fire weather associated with the April 2021 Cape Town wildfire has become 90% more likely in a warmer world.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	E298–E304
Number of pages	7
Journal	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Volume	104
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0204.1
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2023

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This is the accepted version of the following article: [Liu, Z, Eden, JM, Dieppois, B, Conradie, S & Blackett, M 2023, 'The April 2021 Cape Town wildfire: has anthropogenic climate change altered the likelihood of extreme fire weather?', Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 104, no. 1, pp. E298–E304.], which has been published in final form at [https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0204.1].”

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The April 2021 Cape Town wildfire : has anthropogenic climate change altered the likelihood of extreme fire weather? / Liu, Zhongwei ; Eden, Jonathan M.; Dieppois, Bastien; Conradie, W. Stefaan; Blackett, Matthew.

In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 104, No. 1, 01.01.2023, p. E298–E304.

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