The Fire Weather Index Improved for Peatlands by Including Hydrological Modeling and L-band Microwave Observations

Jonas Mortelmans1, Anne Felsberg2, Gabrielle J.M. De Lannoy1, Sander Veraverbeke3, Robert D Field4,5, Niels Andela6 and Michel Bechtold1, (1)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Leuven, Belgium, (2)KU Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Leuven, Belgium, (3)Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (4)Columbia University, New York, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, (6)Cardiff University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff, United Kingdom