The impact of boreal forest fire on climate warming
We report measurements and analysis of a boreal forest fire, integrating the effects of greenhouse gases, aerosols, black carbon deposition on snow and sea ice, and postfire changes in surface albedo. The net effect of all agents was to increase radiative forcing during the first year (34 ± 31 Watts...
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ftncar:oai:drupal-site.org:articles_9221 2023-10-01T03:59:23+02:00 The impact of boreal forest fire on climate warming Randerson, J. (author) Liu, H. (author) Flanner, M. (author) Chambers, S. (author) Jin, Y. (author) Hess, Peter (author) Pfister, Gabriele (author) Mack, M. (author) Treseder, K. (author) Welp, L. (author) Chapin, F. (author) Harden, J. (author) Goulden, M. (author) Lyons, E. (author) Neff, J. (author) Schuur (author) Zender, C. (author) 2006-11-17 http://nldr.library.ucar.edu/repository/collections/OSGC-000-000-011-971 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1132075 en eng American Association for the Advancement of Science Science http://nldr.library.ucar.edu/repository/collections/OSGC-000-000-011-971 doi:10.1126/science.1132075 ISI:000242045800040 ark:/85065/d77945ft Copyright 2006 American Association for the Advancement of Science. Text article 2006 ftncar https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1132075 2023-09-04T18:28:28Z We report measurements and analysis of a boreal forest fire, integrating the effects of greenhouse gases, aerosols, black carbon deposition on snow and sea ice, and postfire changes in surface albedo. The net effect of all agents was to increase radiative forcing during the first year (34 ± 31 Watts per square meter of burned area), but to decrease radiative forcing when averaged over an 80-year fire cycle (–2.3 ± 2.2 Watts per square meter) because multidecadal increases in surface albedo had a larger impact than fire-emitted greenhouse gases. This result implies that future increases in boreal fire may not accelerate climate warming. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sea ice OpenSky (NCAR/UCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) Science 314 5802 1130 1132 |
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We report measurements and analysis of a boreal forest fire, integrating the effects of greenhouse gases, aerosols, black carbon deposition on snow and sea ice, and postfire changes in surface albedo. The net effect of all agents was to increase radiative forcing during the first year (34 ± 31 Watts per square meter of burned area), but to decrease radiative forcing when averaged over an 80-year fire cycle (–2.3 ± 2.2 Watts per square meter) because multidecadal increases in surface albedo had a larger impact than fire-emitted greenhouse gases. This result implies that future increases in boreal fire may not accelerate climate warming. |
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Randerson, J. (author) Liu, H. (author) Flanner, M. (author) Chambers, S. (author) Jin, Y. (author) Hess, Peter (author) Pfister, Gabriele (author) Mack, M. (author) Treseder, K. (author) Welp, L. (author) Chapin, F. (author) Harden, J. (author) Goulden, M. (author) Lyons, E. (author) Neff, J. (author) Schuur (author) Zender, C. (author) |
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The impact of boreal forest fire on climate warming |
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