Estimates of CO2 from fires in the United States: implications for carbon management.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Fires emit significant amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere. These emissions, however, are highly variable in both space and time. Additionally, CO2 emissions estimates from fires are very uncertain. The combination of high spatial and temporal variability and substantial uncertainty associated with fire CO2 emissions can be problematic to efforts to develop remote sensing, monitoring, and inverse modeling techniques to quantify carbon fluxes at the continental scale. Policy and carbon management decisions based on atmospheric sampling/modeling techniques must account for the impact of fire CO2 emissions; a task that may prove very difficult for the foreseeable future. This paper addresses the variability of CO2 emissions from fires across the US, how these emissions compare

SUBMITTER: Wiedinmyer C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2203970 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature