Is the largest freshwater lake by volume in the world, containing 22–23% of the world's fresh surface water. With 23,615.39 km 3 of fresh water, it contains more water than the North American Great Lakes combined. With a maximum depth of 1,642 m, Baikal is the world's deepest lake. It is considered among the world's clearest lakes and is considered the world's oldest lake – at 25–30 million years. It is the seventh-largest lake in the world by surface area.
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Forest Fire Danger Assessment Using Meteorological Trends: Case Study
Nimazhap Bayarzhapovich Badmaev (Institute of General and Experimental Biology of the Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), Aleksandr Vladimirovich Bazarov (Institute of Physical Material Science of the Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), and Roman Sergeevich Sychev (Institute of Physical Material Science of the Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1867-0.ch008
Abstract
The chapter presents the results of research in the Republic of Buryatia, where the number and area of fires have increased over the past 20 years due to the rise in temperature and aridity. Most of the fires are registered in the large river valleys where pine forests are formed, which have low soil moisture capacity. Fewer fires occurred on the Eastern Sayans, Khamar-Daban ridges, and the Stanovoye Highlands, where the precipitation maximum falls. A correlation analysis was carried out between meteorological parameters and fires in climate-contrasting forests. The lack of precipitation at the end of the previous summer, combined with the hot and dry spring weather of the current year, have a significant impact on fires in the arid ecosystems of the Transbaikal middle mountains. In the humid coastal climate of the Eastern Baikal region, the high temperature of the air determines the fires, but there is no precipitation.