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in the coming decades due to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Given uncertainties around conditions influencing extreme fires and dry lightning ignitions, there would be great benefits from improved scientific knowledge to underpin enhanced tools for managing extreme fires. This is especially
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important as future conditions may become more dangerous than those experienced to date.
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Figure 5: Satellite images centred over the fires on 20 December 2024( upper panels) and 4 February 2025( lower panels). This is presented at 0400 UT( left panels), 0430 UT( middle column panels) and 0500 UT( right panels), noting Local Time is 11 hours ahead of UT( including daylight savings). Coastlines are represented in yellow. Credit: himawari asia
Figure 6: Forest Fire Danger Index( FFDI: left panels) and C-Haines Index( C-Haines: right panel) for 20 December 2024 and 4 February 2025. The fire region is around 143 ° E and 37 ° S, with coastlines and state boundaries shown. FFDI data represent midafternoon conditions, similar to the C-Haines Index calculated here at 0600 UT.