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Different means to estimate changes in fire-hazard conditions in the Russian forests are analyzed in connection with climate changes. Climate data are considered as based upon standard observations and calculated characteristics obtained from the atmosphere-ocean general circulation models. Space distributions are calculated of changes in extreme conditions for fire hazard at the end of the 21st century, as compared with those at the end of the 20th century.
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Original Russian Text © S.P. Malevskii Malevich, E.K. Mol’kentin, E.D. Nadezhina, A.A. Semioshina, I.A. Sall’, E.I. Khlebnikova, O.B. Shklyarevich, published in Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, 2007, No. 3, pp. 14–24.
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Malevskii-Malevich, S.P., Mol’kentin, E.K., Nadezhina, E.D. et al. Analysis of changes in fire-hazard conditions in the forests in Russia in the 20th and 21st centuries on the basis of climate modeling. Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 32, 154–161 (2007). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373907030028
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