Fire Meteorology: Current Advancements in Observations and Modeling
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Meteorology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 18 September 2026 | Viewed by 172
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Interests: fire weather and wildfires modelling; heavy orographic precipitation; mineral dust mobilization and transport
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Dear Colleagues,
Extreme wildfires have both direct and indirect impacts across local to global scales and play a significant role in Earth system processes. It is widely recognized that climate change is altering wildfire regimes worldwide, with an increasing frequency of events exhibiting extreme fire behavior. However, meteorology has a direct and critical impact on fire behavior driving the development of techniques and new methodologies to identify fire risk, predict fire behavior, and ensure fire suppression.
The journal Atmosphere is dedicating this Special Issue to disseminating recent research addressing wildfires in the context of fire meteorology and climate. The main topics to be presented in this Special Issue address, but are not limited to, the following: (1) climate changes and fire risk assessment; (2) atmospheric circulation and wildfires; (3) fire-weather interactions and modeling; (4) pyro-convection activity; (5) use of remote sensing and Earth Observations (EOs) for studying wildfires; (6) lightning and natural forest fires; and (7) smoke aerosol emission, transport, and impacts into the atmosphere and air quality.
We encourage contributions that present innovative research, reviews, and case studies examining all aspects of wildfires from observation to numerical modeling results that are useful for understanding such extreme events in the fire meteorology context.
Dr. Flavio T. Couto
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- fire weather
- atmosphere–fire interactions
- extreme wildfire events
- coupled atmosphere–fire models
- wildfire observations
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