van der Werf, Guido R. and Randerson, James T. and Collatz, G. James and Giglio, Louis and Kasibhatla, Prasad S. (2004) Continental-Scale Partitioning of Fire Emissions During the 1997 to 2001 El Niño/La Niña Period. Science, 303 (5654). pp. 73-76. ISSN 0036-8075. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20141202-130150892
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Abstract
During the 1997 to 1998 El Niño, drought conditions triggered widespread increases in fire activity, releasing CH_4 and CO_2 to the atmosphere. We evaluated the contribution of fires from different continents to variability in these greenhouse gases from 1997 to 2001, using satellite-based estimates of fire activity, biogeochemical modeling, and an inverse analysis of atmospheric CO anomalies. During the 1997 to 1998 El Niño, the fire emissions anomaly was 2.1 ± 0.8 petagrams of carbon, or 66 ± 24% of the CO_2 growth rate anomaly. The main contributors were Southeast Asia (60%), Central and South America (30%), and boreal regions of Eurasia and North America (10%).
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| Additional Information: | © 2004 American Association for the Advancement of Science. 25 August 2003; Accepted 19 November 2003. This work was funded by NASA EOS-IDS grants NAG5-9462 (J.T.R.), NAG5-9440 (E.S.K.), and NAG5- 9605 (P.S.K.). We thank T. Schneider for advice on the inversion; P. Novelli, T. Conway, P. Tans, and E. Dlugokencky from the NOAA Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory for providing the trace gas observations; and K. Treseder for comments on an earlier draft. | ||||||||||||
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| Official Citation: | van der Werf, G. R., Randerson, J. T., Collatz, G. J., Giglio, L., Kasibhatla, P. S., Arellano, A. F., . . . Kasischke, E. S. (2004). Continental-Scale Partitioning of Fire Emissions During the 1997 to 2001 El Niño/La Niña Period. Science, 303(5654), 73-76. doi: 10.1126/science.1090753 | ||||||||||||
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| Deposited By: | Joanne McCole | ||||||||||||
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| Last Modified: | 03 Oct 2019 07:40 |
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