Early season lightning storms followed by vapor pressure deficit anomalies contributed to an extreme wildfire season near the high latitude treeline in Northwest Canada in 2014

Sander Veraverbeke1, Doug E. J. Worthy2, Douglas Chan2, Elton Chan2, Elizabeth Brooke Wiggins3, Charles E Miller4, John Henderson5, Mick Tosca6 and James Tremper Randerson7, (1)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)Environment Canada Toronto, Climate Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada, (3)University of California, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States