Table 1 Correlation matrix between burned area and climatic variables.

* and ** indicate significance at the 95 and 99% confidence level based on Student’s t test, respectively.

	January	February	March	April	May	June
Niño 3.4	0.13	0.14	0.13	0.11	0.06	0.10
AO	0.10	0.43	0.46*	−0.07	0.16	−0.08
850-hPa geopotential height	0.06	0.60**	0.77**	0.21	0.11	0.09
Temperature	0.08	0.41	0.54*	0.46*	−0.37	−0.19
Precipitation	−0.18	−0.40	−0.32	−0.27	−0.14	−0.08
Potential evapotranspiration	0.14	0.28	0.56**	0.50*	−0.08	−0.11