Drivers and implications of recent large fire years in boreal North America

Sander Veraverbeke1,2, Brendan M Rogers3, Michael Goulden2, Randi Jandt4, Charles E Miller5, Elizabeth Brooke Wiggins6 and James Tremper Randerson7, (1)Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (2)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, United States, (4)Fire Ecologist, Alaska Fire Science Consortium, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (6)University of California, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (7)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States