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| Titel |
Constraints on total fire carbon emissions over maritime southeast Asia in
2015 |
| VerfasserIn |
Vincent Huijnen, Martin Wooster, Johannes Kaiser, David Gaveau, Johannes Flemming, Mark Parrington, Antje Inness, Daniel Murdiyarso, Bruce Main, Michiel van Weele |
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EGU General Assembly 2016
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
en
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 18 (2016) |
| Datensatznummer |
250129064
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2016-9126.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| In September and October 2015 widespread forest and peatland fires burned over large parts
of maritime southeast Asia, releasing large amounts of terrestrially-stored carbon into the
atmosphere, primarily in the form of CO2, CO and CH4. Although seasonal fires are a
frequent occurrence in the human modified landscapes in the south of Kalimantan, the
southeastern provinces of Sumatra, and West Papua, the extent of the fires was greatly
inflated by an extended period of drought associated with a particularly strong El
Niño.
In this contribution we provide an estimate of the total carbon released in these fires,
making use of satellite observations of the fire’s radiative power output as processed with
GFAS, applied in the modelling and assimilation framework of the Copernicus
Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS: http://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/). The
carbon emissions are further constrained with MOPITT atmospheric CO column
measurements as well as unique on-site plume measurements on Kalimantan. We
estimate the carbon emissions from the 2015 fires to be the largest over the maritime
southeast Asian region since those associated with the record breaking El Niño of 1997. |
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