The year 2024 was classified by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as the hottest on record, both globally and in Brazil. In the Pantanal, exceptional heat waves and intense droughts led to an early onset of the fire season in June, marked by high fire severity and large burned areas. Although the Pantanal has been increasingly affected by combined drought and heat events, the influence of these climatic extremes on f...

The relationship between vegetation greenness and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is assessed over Europe. The study covers the 21‐year period from 1982 to 2002 and is based on monthly composites of the Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Brightness Temperature from the Global Inventory Monitoring and Modelling System (GIMMS) as well as on monthly precipitation from the Global Precipitation Climatology Centr...

Summary Aim This paper describes the characteristics of the spatio‐temporal distribution of vegetation fires as detected from satellite data for the 12 months April 1992 to March 1993. Location Fires are detected daily at a spatial resolution of 1 km for all land areas of the globe. Methods From the fire location information a daily gridded product at 0.5° by 0.5° has been constructed. Two methods of characterizing the spatio‐...