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A multi-year active fire dataset for the tropics derived from the TRMM VIRS
Giglio, Kendall, Mack
A pan-tropical active fire dataset derived from observations made with the Visible and Infrared Scanner (VIRS), onboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, is described. The dataset consists of monthly 0.5° resolution fire…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Influence of forest fires on climate change studies in the central boreal forest of Canada
Valeo, Beaty, Hesslein
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Year: 2003
Type: Document

Assessing impacts of scaling on burn severity mapping and derived fire effects
Zhu
In recent years, requirements for consistent and operational burn mapping, using remote sensing means, have been mostly designed to provide support to land management in the field. However, this has ignored a perhaps more appropriate area of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

The weather of large fires in the Canadian boreal forest
Amiro, Logan, Wotton, Flannigan, Stocks, Todd, Martell
The weather experienced during large fires (> 200 ha in area) was analyzed for Canada from 1959 to 1999. Maximum values of Canadian Fire Weather Index parameters were calculated using interpolated daily weather data for each fire. Depending on…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Historical wildland fire use: ponderosa pine forest structure after a 25-year experiment in restoring fire regimes in southwestern landscapes
Holden, Morgan, Rollins
We evaluated ponderosa pine forest structure after 25 years of Wildland Fire Use (WFU) in the Gila Wilderness (Gila National Forest, New Mexico) and the Rincon Wilderness (Saguaro National Park, Arizona). We compared areas burned 0, 1, and 2 or more…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Mean fire return intervals as indicators of change in Boreal Siberia
Soja, Stackhouse, Shugart
Boreal regions are particularly significant because these are the regions that are predicted to experience some of the largest temperature increases from climate change. Additionally, this is where the largest reservoir of terrestrial carbon resides…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Fire-induced decrease in forest cover on a small rock outcrop in the Abitibi region of Quebec, Canada
Larocque, Bergeron, Campbell, Bradshaw
Rocky outcrops represent about 30% of the boreal forest of Abitibi, Québec, Canada. Although these outcrops have similar edaphic and climatic conditions, their vegetation can vary. Some are composed of a closed forest of black spruce (Picea mariana…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Non-equilibrium succession dynamics indicate continued northern migration of lodgepole pine
Johnstone, Chapin
Because species affect ecosystem functioning, understanding migration processes is a key component of predicting future ecosystem responses to climate change. This study provides evidence of range expansion under current climatic conditions of an…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Accelerator mass spectrometry at Arizona: geochronology of the climate record and connections with the ocean
Jull, Burr, Beck, Donahue, Biddulph, Hatheway, Lange, McHargue
There are many diverse uses of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). Carbon-14 studies at our laboratory include much research related to paleoclimate, both with 14C as a tracer of past changes in environmental conditions as observed in corals,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Management implications of fire and climate changes in the western Americas
Morgan, Defossé, Rodriguez
From the text ... 'This chapter focuses on the practical, management implications of the fire and climate change research that is reported in the earlier chapters of this volume. We start with an overview of fire management goals and strategies, and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document