Periodic Reporting for period 1 - GRADIENT (Understanding fire, weather and land cover interactions from long-term terrestrial observations and satellite data in a north to south transect in Europe and North Africa)

Long-term historical time series records of fire activity (number of fires and total area burned) extending back to the late 1800s, that are very rare worldwide, were found and used within the GRADIENT project that correspond to (i) Switzerland, central Europe (1900-2014)...