Fire in the land of ice: Climatic drivers and feedbacks

Project Information

FireIce

Grant agreement ID: 101000987

DOI

10.3030/101000987

EC signature date 1 February 2021

Start date 1 October 2021

End date 31 March 2028

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 371 691,00

EU contribution

€ 2 371 691,00

Coordinated by

STICHTING VU
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (35)

Overwintering fires can occur in both peatlands and upland forests with varying ecological impacts

Author(s): Jennifer L. Baltzer, Xanthe J. Walker, Sander Veraverbeke, Thomas D. Hessilt, Raquel Alfaro-Sanchez, Max J. van Gerrevink, Michelle C. Mack, Emily L. Ogden, Richard Olsen, Rebecca C. Scholten, Merritt R. Turetsky
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 9, 2025, Page(s) 559-564, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02630-2

What Are the Limits to the Growth of Boreal Fires?

Author(s): Thomas A. J. Janssen, Sander Veraverbeke
Published in: Global Change Biology, Issue 31, 2025, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.70130

Reburning from overwintering fires in boreal North America: insights from a Landsat time series analysis

Author(s): Thomas D. Hessilt, Sander Veraverbeke, Michelle C. Mack, Richard Olsen, Merritt Turetsky, Xanthe J. Walker, Jennifer L. Baltzer
Published in: International Journal of Wildland Fire, Issue 35, 2026, ISSN 1049-8001
Publisher: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Publishing
DOI: 10.1071/wf25286

Wildfire precursors show complementary predictability in different timescales

Author(s): Yuquan Qu, Diego G. Miralles, Sander Veraverbeke, Harry Vereecken & Carsten Montzka
Published in: Nature Communications, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42597-5

Forest foliage fuel load estimation from multi-sensor spatiotemporal features

Author(s): Yanxi Li; Rui Chen; Binbin He; Sander Veraverbeke
Published in: urn:issn:1569-8432, 2022, ISSN 1569-8432
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2022.103101

Fire severity and carbon combustion from tussock tundra fires in Southwest Alaska

Author(s): Lucas R Diaz, Lisa B Saperstein, Max J van Gerrevink, Sonam Wangchuk, Thomas D Hessilt, Thomas A J Janssen, Rebecca C Scholten, Clement J F Delcourt, Sander Veraverbeke
Published in: Environmental Research: Climate, Issue 5, 2026, Page(s) 025011, ISSN 2752-5295
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/2752-5295/ae4cc3

Geographically divergent trends in snow disappearance timing and fire ignitions across boreal North America

Author(s): Thomas D. Hessilt, Brendan M. Rogers, Rebecca C. Scholten, Stefano Potter, Thomas A. J. Janssen, Sander Veraverbeke
Published in: Biogeosciences, Issue 21, 2024, Page(s) 109-129, ISSN 1726-4189
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/bg-21-109-2024

Fuels Mediate the Influence of Climate Teleconnections on Wildfires in Dryland Ecosystems

Author(s): Yuquan Qu, Sander Veraverbeke, Diego G. Miralles, Jingfang Fan, Harry Vereecken, Carsten Montzka
Published in: Global Change Biology, Issue 31, 2025, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.70406

Carbon Emissions From Fires in Eastern Siberian Larch Forests

Author(s): Clement J. F. Delcourt, Brendan M. Rogers, Linar Akhmetzyanov, Brian Izbicki, Rebecca C. Scholten, Tatiana A. Shestakova, Dave van Wees, Michelle C. Mack, Ute Sass‐Klaassen, Sander Veraverbeke
Published in: Global Change Biology, Issue 31, 2025, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.70247

Widespread peat carbon losses driven by the 2025 Scottish megafire

Author(s): Johanna Schoenecker, Martin J. Baur, Juliana Kohli, Sarah Baker, Matthew Jones, Sander Veraverbeke, Alexandra G. Konings, Adam F. A. Pellegrini
Published in: Nature Geoscience, 2026, ISSN 1752-0894
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-026-01994-3

Climate impacts from North American boreal forest fires

Author(s): Max J. van Gerrevink, Sander Veraverbeke, Sol Cooperdock, Stefano Potter, Qirui Zhong, Michael Moubarak, Anna-Maria Virkkala, Scott J. Goetz, Michelle C. Mack, James T. Randerson, Nick Schutgens, Merritt R. Turetsky, Guido R. van der Werf, Brendan M. Rogers
Published in: Nature Geoscience, Issue 19, 2026, Page(s) 455-461, ISSN 1752-0894
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-026-01940-3

Permafrost–wildfire interactions: active layer thickness estimates for paired burned and unburned sites in northern high latitudes

Author(s): Anna C. Talucci, Michael M. Loranty, Jean E. Holloway, Brendan M. Rogers, Heather D. Alexander, Natalie Baillargeon, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Logan T. Berner, Amy Breen, Leya Brodt, Brian Buma, Jacqueline Dean, Clement J. F. Delcourt, Lucas R. Diaz, Catherine M. Dieleman, Thomas A. Douglas, Gerald V. Frost, Benjamin V. Gaglioti, Rebecca E. Hewitt, Teresa Hollingsworth, M. Torre Jorgenson, Mark J. Lara
Published in: Earth System Science Data, Issue 17, 2025, Page(s) 2887-2909, ISSN 1866-3516
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/essd-17-2887-2025

Anthropogenic and Lightning Fire Incidence and Burned Area in Europe

Author(s): Jasper Dijkstra; Tracy Durrant; Jesús San-Miguel-Ayanz; Sander Veraverbeke
Published in: VOLUME=11;ISSUE=5;STARTPAGE=1;ENDPAGE=19;ISSN=2073-445X;TITLE=Land, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2073-445X
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
DOI: 10.3390/land11050651

Spatial variability in Arctic–boreal fire regimes influenced by environmental and human factors

Author(s): Rebecca C. Scholten, Sander Veraverbeke, Yang Chen, James T. Randerson
Published in: Nature Geoscience, Issue 17, 2024, Page(s) 866-873, ISSN 1752-0894
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01505-2

Evaluating the Hyperspectral Sensitivity of the Differenced Normalized Burn Ratio for Assessing Fire Severity

Author(s): Max J. van van Gerrevink; Sander Veraverbeke
Published in: Remote Sensing, Vol 13, Iss 4611, p 4611 (2021), Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs13224611

Increasing aerosol emissions from boreal biomass burning exacerbate Arctic warming

Author(s): Qirui Zhong, Nick Schutgens, Sander Veraverbeke, Guido R. van der Werf
Published in: Nature Climate Change, Issue 14, 2024, Page(s) 1275-1281, ISSN 1758-678X
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-024-02176-y

Lightning Impacts on Global Forest and Carbon Dynamics: Current Understanding and Knowledge Gaps

Author(s): Sander Veraverbeke, Thomas A. J. Janssen, Esther Brambleby, Matt Jones, Bianca Zoletto, Masha T. van der Sande
Published in: Global Change Biology, Issue 31, 2025, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.70179

Peat fires contribute disproportionately to Siberian fire carbon emissions

Author(s): Amin Khairoun, Philippe Ciais, Thu Hang Nguyen, Chunjing Qiu, Chengliuhui Fang, Filipe Aires, Sander Veraverbeke, Clement J. F. Delcourt, Bo Zheng, Emilio Chuvieco
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 12, 2026, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adl2368

Improving the fire weather index system for peatlands using peat-specific hydrological input data

Author(s): Jonas Mortelmans, Anne Felsberg, Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy, Sander Veraverbeke, Robert D. Field, Niels Andela, Michel Bechtold
Published in: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Issue 24, 2024, Page(s) 445-464, ISSN 1684-9981
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-24-445-2024

The Fire Weather Index Improved for Boreal Peatlands Using Hydrological Modeling and Satellite-Based L-band Microwave Observations

Author(s): Jonas Mortelmans; Anne Felsberg; Gabriëlle De Lannoy; Sander Veraverbeke; Robert Field; Niels Andela; Michel Bechtold
Published in: eISSN:, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 1684-9981
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2023-1451

State of Wildfires 2024–2025

Author(s): Douglas I. Kelley, Chantelle Burton, Francesca Di Giuseppe, Matthew W. Jones, Maria L. F. Barbosa, Esther Brambleby, Joe R. McNorton, Zhongwei Liu, Anna S. I. Bradley, Katie Blackford, Eleanor Burke, Andrew Ciavarella, Enza Di Tomaso, Jonathan Eden, Igor José M. Ferreira, Lukas Fiedler, Andrew J. Hartley, Theodore R. Keeping, Seppe Lampe, Anna Lombardi, Guilherme Mataveli, Yuquan Qu, Patrícia S.
Published in: Earth System Science Data, Issue 17, 2025, Page(s) 5377-5488, ISSN 1866-3516
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/essd-17-5377-2025

Global biomass burning fuel consumption and emissions at 500-m spatial resolution based on the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED)

Author(s): Dave van Wees; Guido R. van der Werf; James T. Randerson; Brendan M. Rogers; Yang Chen; Sander Veraverbeke; Louis Giglio; Douglas C. Morton
Published in: urn:issn:1991-959X, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1991-9603
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-2022-132

Multi-ignition fire complexes drive extreme fire years and impacts

Author(s): Rebecca C. Scholten, Tirtha Banerjee, Yang Chen, Andrea Delgado, Ajinkya Desai, Ziming Ke, Tianjia Liu, Douglas C. Morton, David A. Peterson, Qi Tang, Sander Veraverbeke, Jishi Zhang, James T. Randerson
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 12, 2026, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adx6477

Burned Area and Carbon Emissions Across Northwestern Boreal North America from 2001–2019

Author(s): S. Potter; S. Cooperdock; S. Cooperdock; S. Veraverbeke; X. Walker; M. C. Mack; S. J. Goetz; J. Baltzer; L. Bourgeau-Chavez; A. Burrell; C. Dieleman; N. French; S. Hantson; E. E. Hoy; E. E. Hoy; L. Jenkins; J. F. Johnstone; E. S. Kane; S. M. Natali; J. T. Randerson; M. R. Turetsky; E. Whitman; E. Wiggins; B. M. Rogers
Published in: Biogeosciences, Vol 20, Pp 2785-2804 (2023), Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 1726-4189
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2022-364

Estimating forest litter fuel load by integrating remotely sensed foliage phenology and modeled litter decomposition

Author(s): Yanxi Li, Yiru Zhang, Xingwen Quan, Binbin He, Sander Veraverbeke, Zhanmang Liao, Thomas A.J. Janssen
Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment, Issue 317, 2024, Page(s) 114526, ISSN 0034-4257
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2024.114526

Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change

Author(s): Matthew W. Jones, John T. Abatzoglou, Sander Veraverbeke, Niels Andela, Gitta Lasslop, Matthias Forkel, Adam J. P. Smith, Chantelle Burton, Richard A. Betts, Guido R. van der Werf, Stephen Sitch, Josep G. Canadell, Cristina Santín, Crystal Kolden, Stefan H. Doerr, Corinne Le Quéré
Published in: Reviews of Geophysics, 2022, ISSN 1944-9208
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2020rg000726

Geographically divergent trends in snowmelt timing and fire ignitions across boreal North America

Author(s): Thomas D. Hessilt; Brendan M. Rogers; Rebecca C. Scholten; Stefano Potter; Thomas A. J. Janssen; Sander Veraverbeke
Published in: eISSN:, Issue 3, 2024, ISSN 1726-4189
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2023-1741

State of Wildfires 2023–2024

Author(s): Matthew W. Jones, Douglas I. Kelley, Chantelle A. Burton, Francesca Di Giuseppe, Maria Lucia F. Barbosa, Esther Brambleby, Andrew J. Hartley, Anna Lombardi, Guilherme Mataveli, Joe R. McNorton, Fiona R. Spuler, Jakob B. Wessel, John T. Abatzoglou, Liana O. Anderson, Niels Andela, Sally Archibald, Dolors Armenteras, Eleanor Burke, Rachel Carmenta, Emilio Chuvieco, Hamish Clarke, Stefan H. Doerr, Pa
Published in: Earth System Science Data, Issue 16, 2025, Page(s) 3601-3685, ISSN 1866-3516
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/essd-16-3601-2024

Extratropical forests increasingly at risk due to lightning fires

Author(s): Thomas A. J. Janssen, Matthew W. Jones, Declan Finney, Guido R. van der Werf, Dave van Wees, Wenxuan Xu & Sander Veraverbeke
Published in: Nature Geoscience, 2023, ISSN 1752-0894
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-023-01322-z

Stratospheric biomass burning aerosols compensate record-breaking ozone depletion over the Arctic in spring 2020

Author(s): Qirui Zhong, Sander Veraverbeke, Pengfei Yu, Jianmin Ma, Shu Tao
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 17, 2026, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-69728-y

Burned area mapping across the Arctic-boreal zone with Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery

Author(s): Stefano Potter, Yili Yang, Arden Burrell, Anna Talucci, Andrew Clelland, Sander Veraverbeke, James T. Randerson, Scott Goetz, Logan Berner, Xanthe Walker, Michelle Mack, Susan Natali, Brendan M. Rogers
Published in: International of Remote Sensing, 2025, ISSN 0143-1161
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5473180

How Much of a Pixel Needs to Burn to Be Detected by Satellites? A Spectral Modeling Experiment Based on Ecosystem Data from Yellowstone National Park, USA

Author(s): Mats Riet andSander Veraverbeke
Published in: Remote Sensing, 2021, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs14092075

Trends and drivers of Arctic-boreal fire intensity between 2003 and 2022

Author(s): Yanxi Li, Thomas A.J. Janssen, Rui Chen, Binbin He, Sander Veraverbeke
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, 2024, ISSN 1879-1026
Publisher: Elsevier

Amplified Arctic–boreal fire regimes from permafrost thaw feedbacks

Author(s): Jialing Li, Gengke Lai, Lin Meng, Constantin M. Zohner, Josep Peñuelas, Sander Veraverbeke, Jan Hjort, Philippe Ciais, Yang Chen, Xin Li, Chaoyang Wu
Published in: Nature Geoscience, Issue 19, 2026, Page(s) 279-290, ISSN 1752-0894
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-025-01894-y

Environmental drivers and remote sensing proxies of post-fire thaw depth in eastern Siberian larch forests

Author(s): Lucas R. Diaz, Clement J. F. Delcourt, Moritz Langer, Michael M. Loranty, Brendan M. Rogers, Rebecca C. Scholten, Tatiana A. Shestakova, Anna C. Talucci, Jorien E. Vonk, Sonam Wangchuk, Sander Veraverbeke
Published in: Earth System Dynamics, Issue 15, 2024, Page(s) 1459-1482, ISSN 2190-4987
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/esd-15-1459-2024

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Interdisciplinary solutions and collaborations for wildfire management

Author(s): Fay Johnston, Charles Jones, Fang Li, Alejandra Stehr, Miguel Ángel Torres-Vázquez, Marco Turco, Sander Veraverbeke
Published in: iScience, Issue 27, 2024, Page(s) 110438, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: CellPress
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.110438