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We used NOAA-AVHRR satellite imagery, biomass density maps, fuel consumption estimates, and a carbon emission factor to estimate the total carbon (C) emissions from the spring 1998 fires in tropical Mexico. All eight states in southeast Mexico were affected by the wildfires,…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfire, biomass, carbon emissions, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, tropospheric ozone, Mexico, agriculture, air quality, charcoal, C - carbon, Chiapas, climatology, cover, deforestation, digital data collection, distribution, drought, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, evapotranspiration, evergreens, fire injury, fire management, fire management planning, fire size, fire suppression, fragmentation, grasslands, greenhouse gases, habitat conversion, human caused fires, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land use, mortality, photography, overstory, Pinus, plantations, population density, precipitation, Quercus, remote sensing, savannas, storms, tropical forest, understory vegetation, winds