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Back to the past: burning wood to save the globe
Johnston, van Kooten
In an effort to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning, renewable energy policies incentivize use of forest biomass as an energy source. Many governments have assumed (legislated) the carbon flux from burning biomass to be neutral because…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Studying the effects of a changing climate on wildfires and the impacts to the United States' air quality
Val Martin, Pierce, Heald
From the text ... 'Smoke can be transported hundreds of miles downwind by prevailing winds or convective winds generated by fires themselves with concentrations sufficient to make it the most significant source of air pollution over large areas.'
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Potential climate change impacts on fire weather in the United States
Heilman, Tang, Luo, Zhong, Winkler, Bian
From the text ... 'Researchers at Michigan State University and the Forest Services's Northern Research Station worked on a joint study to examine the possible effects of future global and regional climate change on the occurrence of fire-weather…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Projected carbon stocks in the conterminous USA with land use and variable fire regimes
Bachelet, Ferschweiler, Sheehan, Sleeter, Zhu
The dynamic global vegetation model (DGVM) MC2 was run over the conterminous USA at 30 arc sec (~800 m) to simulate the impacts of nine climate futures generated by 3GCMs (CSIRO, MIROC and CGCM3) using 3 emission scenarios (A2, A1B and B1) in the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Has the advancing onset of spring vegetation green-up slowed down or changed abruptly over the last three decades?
Wang, Piao, Xu, Ciais, MacBean, Myneni, Li
Aim: Change in spring phenology is a sensitive indicator of ecosystem response to climate change, and exerts first-order control on the ecosystem carbon and hydrological cycles. The start of season (SOS) in spring can be estimated from satellite…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Adapting conservation easements to climate change
Rissman, Owley, Shaw, Thompson
Perpetual conservation easements (CEs) are popular for restricting development and land use, but their fixed terms create challenges for adaptation to climate change. The increasing pace of environmental and social change demands adaptive…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

The cost of climate change: ecosystem services and wildland fires
Lee, Schlemme, Murray, Unsworth
Little research has focused on the economic impact associated with climate-change induced wildland fire on natural ecosystems and the goods and services they provide. We examine changes in wildland fire patterns based on the U.S. Forest Service's…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

After Preservation: Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans
From John Muir to David Brower, from the creation of Yellowstone National Park to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethos—to…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

A non-equilibrium model for soil heating and moisture transport during extreme surface heating: the soil (heat-moisture-vapor) HMV-Model Version 1
Massman
Increased use of prescribed fire by land managers and the increasing likelihood of wildfires due to climate change require an improved modeling capability of extreme heating of soils during fires. This issue is addressed here by developing and…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Indicators of climate impacts for forests: recommendations for the U.S. National Climate Assessment indicators system
Heath, Anderson, Emery, Hicke, Littell, Lucier, Masek, Peterson, Pouyat, Potter, Robertson, Sperry, Bytnerowicz, Jovan, Mockrin, Musselman, Schulz, Smith, Stewart
The Third National Climate Assessment (NCA) process for the United States focused in part on developing a system of indicators to communicate key aspects of the physical climate, climate impacts, vulnerabilities, and preparedness to inform…
Year: 2015
Type: Document