Scientific observations and social implications of a more fire-prone Arctic circle

Abstract

Wildfire have a significance at both global and local scale. For example at global scale fires affect global climate through processes such as trace gas and aerosol production. At local scale fires have health impact, poor air quality, landscape / watershed scale effect, water quality degradation. Global warming and hotter summer contribute to the shift of fire regime, and also Arctic pole countries are experiencing wildfires in significant number and at both high scale and intensity. INGV (Italy) has a long record of wildfire studies by using observation from space and by using sophistic sensors on airborne within international cooperation