Impact of the Arctic Oscillation pattern on interannual forest fire variability in Central Siberia

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Balzter, Heiko, Gerard, France F., George, Charles T., Rowland, Clare S., Jupp, T. E., McCallum, I., Shvidenko, Anatoly, Nilsson, S., Sukhinin, A., Onuchin, Alexander, Schmullius, Christiane
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2007
• Subjects: Arctic; Soi; Siberia
• Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2005GL022526/abstract; http://hdl.handle.net/2381/2103; https://doi.org/10.1029/2005GL022526

Russia's forests play an important role in the global carbon cycle. Because of their scale and interannual variability, forest fires can change the direction of the net carbon flux over Eurasia. 2002 and 2003 were the first two consecutive years in the atmospheric record in which the carbon con...