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W. R. Skinner
Researcher at Meteorological Service of Canada
Publications - 7
Citations - 2192
W. R. Skinner is an academic researcher from Meteorological Service of Canada. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sea surface temperature & Pacific decadal oscillation. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 7 publications receiving 2067 citations. Previous affiliations of W. R. Skinner include Environment Canada.
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Large forest fires in Canada, 1959–1997
Brian J. Stocks,J. A. Mason,J. B. Todd,E. M. Bosch,B. M. Wotton,Brian D. Amiro,Mike D. Flannigan,Kelvin G. Hirsch,K. A. Logan,David L. Martell,W. R. Skinner +10 more
TL;DR: The Large Fire Database (LFDB) as mentioned in this paper provides information on fire location, start date, final size, cause, and suppression action for all fires larger than 200 ha in area for Canada for the 1959-1997 period.
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Future Area Burned in Canada
TL;DR: In this article, historical relationship between weather, the Canadian fire weather index (FWI) system components and area burned in Canadian ecozones were analyzed on a monthly basis in tandem with output from the Canadian and the Hadley Centre GCMs to project future area burned.
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The Association Between Circulation Anomaliesin the Mid-Troposphere and Area Burnedby Wildland Fire in Canada
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the physical links between anomalous mid-tropospheric circulation over various regions of Canada and wildland fire severity and found statistically significant correlations between regional total area burned and clusters of anomalous 500 hPa geopotential height values immediately over, and immediately upstream of the affected region.
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A 500 hPa synoptic wildland fire climatology for large Canadian forest fires, 1959–1996
W. R. Skinner,Mike D. Flannigan,Brian J. Stocks,David L. Martell,B. M. Wotton,J. B. Todd,J. A. Mason,K. A. Logan,E. M. Bosch +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified the link between anomalous mid-tropospheric circulation at 500 hPa over northern North America and wildland fire severity activity in various large regions of Canada over the entire May to August fire season.
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Large forest fires in Canada and the relationship to global sea surface temperatures
TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between variations in peak Canadian forest fire season (JJA) severity and previous winter (DJF) global sea surface temperature (SST) variations are examined for the period 1953 to 1999.