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1 1National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters, São José dos Campos, Brazil 2Graduate Program in Natural Disasters, UNESP/CEMADEN, State University of São Paulo, São José dos Campos, Brazil 3State of São Paulo Secretary of Infrastructure and Environment, São Paulo, Brazil 4CPTEC/INPE-Center for Weather Forecasts and Climate Studies/National Institute for Space Research, São Paulo, Brazil 5Paula Souza State Technological Education Center, São Paulo, Brazil The Pantanal region in South America is one of the world s largest wetlands. Since 2019, the Pantanal has suffered a prolonged drought that has spelled disaster for the region, and subsequent fires have engulfed hundreds of thousands of hectares. The lack of rainfall during the summers of 2019 and 2020 was caused by reduced transport of warm and humid summer air from Amazonia into the Pantanal. Instead, a predominance of warmer and drier air masses from subtropical latitudes contributed to a

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