Biomass Burning and Its Inter-Relationships With the Climate System

by Innes, John L.; Beniston, Martin; Verstraete, Michel M.

• ISBN13: 9780792361077
• ISBN10: 0792361075
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This volume contains a selection of scientific papers which were presented at an international workshop held in Wengen, Switzerland, in September 1998. A number of state-of-the-art papers are presented, which discuss scientific, technological and socio-economic issues related to large forest fires which occur both in the tropics and in the extra-tropical regions. The book comprises some of the most recent research conducted in the context of the large forest fires which occurred in South-East Asia, Australia, Brazil and Africa in late 1997 and early 1998. While essentially due to human interference, these particular fires appear to have been enhanced by the particularly strong El Nino episode which prevailed at that time.This interdisciplinary volume addresses a number of topics, in particular the contribution to climatic change by the greenhouse gases and aerosols emitted by large forest fires, the monitoring of fires both during and after combustion through satellite remote-sensing techniques, and numerical studies of the perturbation to the climate system using general circulation climate models.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements	x
Biomass burning and climate: an introduction	1	(14)
John L. Innes
Global Biomass Burning: A Case Study of the Gaseous and Particulate Emissions Released to the Atmosphere During the 1997 Fires in Kalimantan and Sumatra, Indonesia	15	(18)
Joel S. Levine
Modelling the Effect of Landuse Changes on Global Biomass Emissions	33	(18)
Sue A. Ferguson
David V. Sandberg
Roger Ottmar
Direct effects of fire on the boreal forest carbon budget	51	(18)
Eric S. Kasischke
Brian J. Stocks
Kathy O'Neill
Nancy H.F. French
Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez
The impact of biomass burning on the global budget of ozone and ozone precursors	69	(18)
Claire Granier
Jean-Francois Muller
Guy Brasseur
Impact of the 1997 Indonesian fires on tropospheric ozone and its precursors	87	(14)
D.A. Hauglustaine
G.P. Brasseur
J.S. Levine
The Relationship Between Area Burned by Wildland Fire in Canada and Circulation Anomalies in the Mid-Troposphere	101	(26)
W.R. Skinner
B.J. Stocks
D.L. Martell
B. Bonsal
A. Shabbar
Underestimation of GCM-calculated short-wave atmospheric absorption in areas affected by biomass burning	127	(24)
Martin Wild
Wildland Fire Detection from Space: Theory and Application	151	(20)
Donald R. Cahoon, Jr.
Brian J. Stocks
Martin E. Alexander
Bryan A. Baum
Johann G. Goldammer
Climate and vegetation as driving factors in global fire activity	171	(22)
Edward Dwyer
Jean-Marie Gregoire
Jose M.C. Pereira
Modelling the impact of vegetation fires, detected from NOAA-AVHRR data, on tropospheric chemistry in Tropical Africa	193	(22)
Daniela Stroppiana
Pietro Alessandro Brivio
Jean-Marie Gregoire
A rule-based system for burned area mapping in temperate and tropical regions using NOAA/AVHRR imagery	215	(18)
Jose M.C. Pereira
Maria J.P. Vasconcelos
Adelia M. Sousa
Fire regime sensitivity to global climate change: An Australian perspective	233	(14)
Geoffrey J. Cary
John C. G. Banks
The interaction between forest fires and human activity in southern Switzerland	247	(16)
Marco Conedera
Willy Tinner
Indirect and Long-Term Effects of Fire on the Boreal Forest Carbon Budget	263	(18)
Eric S. Kasischke
Kathy O'Neill
Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez
Nancy H.F. French
Sustainable forestry as a source of bio-energy for fossil fuel substitution	281	(18)
Murari Lal
Roma Singh
Managing Smoke in United States Wildlands and Forests: A Challenge for Science and Regulations	299	(22)
Douglas G. Fox
Allen R. Riebau
Richard W. Fisher
Area burned reconstruction and measurement: a comparison of methods	321	(20)
Chris Larsen
Interactions between biomass burning and climate: Conclusions drawn from the Workshop	341	(6)
John L. Innes
Martin Beniston
Michel Verstrate
Abbreviations and Acronyms	347	(4)
Index	351