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Nitrous acid (HONO) is a precursor of the hydroxyl radical in the atmosphere, which controls the degradation of greenhouse gases, contributes to photochemical smog and ozone production, and influences air quality. Although biomass burning is known to contribute substantially to…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: atmospheric science, climate science, HONO - nitrous acid, wildfires, plumes, NO2 - nitrogen dioxide, satellite monitoring, remote sensing, greenhouse gases, O3 - ozone
Grassland fire dynamics are subject to myriad climatic, biological, and anthropogenic drivers, thresholds, and feedbacks and therefore do not conform to assumptions of statistical stationarity. The presence of non-stationarity in time series data leads to ambiguous results that…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: climate change, grassland ecology, China, grasslands, fire management, fire-climate relationships, carbon emissions
With global warming, the carbon pool in the degradation zone of permafrost around the Arctic will gradually be disturbed and may enter the atmosphere in the form of released methane gas, becoming an important factor of environmental change in permafrost areas. We selected the…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: China, CH4 - methane, permafrost degradation, climate change, remote sensing, microorganisms, soil, natural hazards
Fire has been a natural feature of the ecosystem for million years. Still, currently fire regimes have been increasingly altered by human activities and climate change, causing economic losses, air pollution, and environmental damage. In Brazil, savannas (locally known as the…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Brazil, cerrado, savanna, frequent fires, plant biomass, climate change, aboveground biomass, carbon emissions, co-existence, fire frequency, management, BEFIRE
Biomass fires in Indonesia emit high levels of greenhouse gases and particulate matter, key contributors to global climate change and poor air quality in south-east Asia. In order to better understand the drivers of biomass fires across Indonesia over multiple years, we examined…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: Indonesia, biomass burning, climate change, fire hotspot, haze, Southeast Asia, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Papua New Guinea, fire probability, fire distribution, fire management
Biomass burning, including fires, has been identified as the largest source of primary fine carbonaceous particles in the troposphere and one of the major drivers of global carbon (C) cycle, cloud properties, and climate. Most of the global C emissions happen in the Pantropic…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Mexico, biomass, carbon emissions, tropical forest fire, field observations, C - carbon, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, GOES - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, FRE - Fire Radiative Energy, climate change, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, La Nina
Wildfire frequency and severity are increasing in many locations around the world. Wildfires emit particles and trace gases that are harmful to public health. In this talk, I will share results from several projects around the world that are evaluating the impact that wildfire…
Person: Marlier
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): California, International
Keywords: Indonesia, air quality, public health, air pollution, remote sensing, morbidity, drought, climate change, land management, wildfires, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5
[from the text] The danger of catastrophic wildfires is increasing around the globe, with large fires occurring in Australia, Canada, Chile, Indonesia, Portugal, Russia, as well as in the United States over the past decade. A major driver globally is climate change, which is…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: climate change, fire frequency, public health, PM - particulate matter, respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, wildfire smoke exposure, wildfires
Unprecedented smoke-related health burden associated with the 2019-20 bushfires in eastern Australia
[from the text] Weather conditions conducive to extreme bushfires are becoming more frequent as a consequence of climate change.1 Such fires have substantial social, ecological, and economic effects, including the effects on public health associated with smoke, such as premature…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, air pollutants, air quality, bushfires, mortality, human health, climate change, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter
The aim of the paper is to describe the spread forest fire event occurred in the Italian Alps in 2017 under extremely drought conditions. In the study the root causes of wildfires and their direct relapses to the air quality of the Western Po valley and the urban centre of…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: Italy, air quality, biomass, climate change, forest fires, wildfires, PM - particulate matter, air pollution, PM2.5
Forest fires contribute to climate change mainly due to emission of greenhouse gases by biomass burning and loss of sequestration by sink destruction. The average contribution in Spain between 1998 and 2015 was 9,494,910 Mg CO2 eq per year, 23.8% from biomass burning and 76.2%…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: greenhouse gases, greenhouse gas inventory, sink destruction, wildfires, climate change, Spain
Fire emissions are a significant mechanism in the carbon cycling from the Earth's surface to the atmosphere, and fire behavior is considerably interacted with weather and climate. However, due to interannual variation of the emissions and nonlinear smoke plume dynamics,…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Asia, climatology
The Paris Agreement calls on parties to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change by engaging in appropriate policies and measures as put forward through Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), to strengthen transparency when reporting their greenhouse gas (GHG)…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: climate change, peat, biomass burning, MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer), greenhouse gas emissions, burned area
[from the text] Australia is burning. Both New South Wales and Queensland have declared a state of emergency after seeing new record high in property losses during this fire season. Recently, “fires near me” has become Google's most searched words in Australia, with perhaps…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, climate change, bushfire, public health, PM - particulate matter
Satellite-based active fire data provide indispensable information for monitoring global fire activity and understanding its impacts on climate and air quality. Yet the limited spatiotemporal sampling capacities of current satellites result in considerable uncertainties in fire…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: GOES - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, Landsat 8, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, active fire product evaluation, air quality, active fires, fire detection, fire size
The Arctic is experiencing record heat and wildfires are ramping up across the global north. New research shows northern forest fire frequency and severity are rapidly increasing, releasing large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and worsening climate feedback loops. WHRC…
Person: Rogers, Natali, Frumhoff
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forests, 2020 fire season, climate change, fire frequency, fire severity, burned area, C - carbon, carbon release, air temperature, carbon emissions, wildfires, black carbon, human health, permafrost, fire management, carbon budget
The Fire Continuum Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Fire Ecology and the International Association of Wildland Fire, was designed to cover both the biophysical and human dimensions aspects of fire along the fire continuum. This proceedings includes many of topics…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: wildfires, bushfires, wildland fire
Boreal wildfires are increasing in intensity, extent, and frequency, potentially intensifying carbon emissions and transitioning the region from a globally significant carbon sink to a source. The productive southern boreal forests of central Canada already experience relatively…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: climate change, ecozone, Canada, Saskatchewan, harvesting, land use, latitudinal gradient, soil moisture, stand age, carbon stocks, combustion rate, carbon dynamics, boreal forest
Aerosols emitted from wildfires could significantly affect global climate through perturbing global radiation balance. In this study, the Community Earth System Model with prescribed daily fire aerosol emissions is used to investigate fire aerosols’ impacts on global climate…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: climate change, radiative forcing, radiative effects, aerosols, aerosol-cloud interaction, air-sea interaction, biomass burning, wildfire
El Niño years are characterized by a high sea surface temperature anomaly in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean, which leads to unusually warm and dry conditions over many fire-prone regions globally. This can lead to an increase in burned area and emissions from fire activity, and…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: El Niño, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, area burned, JULES - Joint UK Land Environment Simulator, INFERNO - INteractive Fire and Emission algoRithm for Natural envirOnments, South America, Africa, Asia, carbon sink, burned area
The terrestrial carbon sink has significantly increased in the past decades, but the underlying mechanisms are still unclear. The current synthesis of process-based estimates of land and ocean sinks requires an additional sink of 0.6 PgC yr−1 in the last decade to explain the…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: tropical ecosystems, carbon sink, climate change, climate mitigation, global carbon budget, carbon cycle, global burned area, GPP - gross primary production, fire decline