The Gironde wildfires reveal how logistics are key in firefighting. Emergency operations in the French region are twofold: providing relief and evacuating large populations.
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Extreme fire risk will overlap with weather patterns to create fire tornadoes more often under climate change.
Large, intense bushfires can pump so much heat into the atmosphere they form their own thunderstorm system. And that can make the weather on the ground even more dangerously unpredictable.
When a bushfire rages so high it creates its own thunderstorm, it becomes a ‘firestorm’ - and makes life much more difficult for firefighters. We still have a lot to learn about what triggers them.
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Professor of Bushfire Dynamics, School of Science, UNSW Canberra, UNSW
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Adjunct Professor, School of Science at UNSW Canberra, UNSW
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Research associate, UNSW
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Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW
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Principal Research Scientist in Extreme Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Atmospheric Dynamics, UNSW
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Professeur des Universités en Sciences de Gestion, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)