TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES TO CHARACTERISE FIRE RISK – THE CLIMATE RISK INDICES FROM SPACE PLATFORMS (CRISP)

There is a growing need for satellite-derived earth observation data to understand our changing climate and the risks climate change poses to our lives and businesses. The Climate Risk Indices from Space Platforms (CRISP) will provide access to quality assured, world-leading climate data to help study our changing climate and extreme weather events, including wildfire events. CRISP provides indicators of extreme weather events derived from historical EO and climate reanalysis data covering the time-period of 1979 to the present day. In this manuscript, CRISP is used to combine climate extreme indices with vulnerability and exposure information about wildfires to develop a climate risk assessment for a specific area of interest in the UK.