Abstract: Abstract The largest forest wildfire in Swedish modern history burnt 14,000 ha of Boreal forest in the Vastmanland County (south-central Sweden) during the summer of 2014. Here, we assess the impacts of this wildfire on the hydrological regime during the three years after it happened. In the empirical experiment carried out, four catchments (two burnt and two non-burnt nearby) with similar character and climate and with mean area of 20 km2 were compared. A total of 23 descriptors accounting for climate, land cover and flow signatures were defin...
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Topics: 
Physical geography
Climatology