GC32B:
The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land and Atmosphere Toward Improved Fire Management II

Session ID#: 5200

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3018 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Yufang Jin, University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, United States, Guido van der Werf, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Sara McAllister, Rocky Mountain Research Station Missoula, Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, MT, United States
Primary Convener:  Mick Tosca, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Yufang Jin, University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, United States, Sander Veraverbeke, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States and Caroline Lehmann, University of Edinburgh, School of GeoScienes, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Yufang Jin, University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • C - Cryosphere
Index Terms:

0315 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Virtual Option?: Yes

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

GC32B-01
Wildfire Risk Management: Challenges and Opportunities (Invited) (5530)
Matthew Thompson1, David E Calkin1, Michael S Hand1 and Jason Kreitler2, (1)USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT, United States, (2)USGS, Western Geographic Science Center, Boise, United States
GC32B-02
An Emerging Role for Numerical Modelling in Wildfire Behavior Research: Explorations, Explanations, and Hypothesis Development (Invited) (5498)
Rodman Linn1, Judith Winterkamp1, Jesse Canfield1, Jeremy Sauer1, Jean-Luc Dupuy2, Mark Finney3, Chad M Hoffman4, Russell Parsons5, Francois Pimont6, Carolyn H Sieg7 and Jason Forthofer8, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Institut National pour la Recherche Agronomique, Avignon, France, (3)US Forest Service Missoula, Missoula, MT, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Forest and Rangeland Stewardship Program, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)US Forest Service Missoula, Missoula, United States, (6)INRAE, URFM, Avignon, France, (7)US Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (8)Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, MT, United States
GC32B-03
Forest Management and the Evolution of Project Design in Dynamic Wildland Urban Interface Fire Environments (Invited) (5346)
Scott Conway, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region Remote Sensing Lab, McClellan, CA, United States
GC32B-04
Analyses of fire growth and behavior using new VIIRS 375 m active fire data and a coupled weather-fire model (CAWFE) (Invited) (4932)
Wilfrid Schroeder, NOAA, NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product Operations, College Park, MD, United States, Janice L Coen, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Patricia Oliva, Hémera Centro de Observación de la Tierra, Escuela de Ingeniería Forestal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile
GC32B-05
Global Perspectives on Peat Fires (30895)
Adam Watts, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Merritt R Turetsky, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, United States, Brian Benscoter, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Washington, DC, United States, Susan Elizabeth Page, University of Leicester, Department of Geography, Leicester, United Kingdom, Guillermo Rein, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom and Guido van der Werf, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
GC32B-06
Drivers of Recent Trends in African Landscape Fires (5157)
Niels Andela and Guido van der Werf, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
GC32B-07
Fuel for the Fire: Improved Understanding of Fire Behavior in Africa Based on Partitioned Herbaceous and Woody LAI from MODIS Satellite Data (13729)
Njoki NJOKI Kahiu, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, United States and Niall P Hanan, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Las Cruces, United States
GC32B-08
Predicting the Spatial Variability of Fuel Moisture Content in Mountainous Eucalyptus Forests (32029)
Gary J Sheridan1, Petter Nyman2, Patrick N J Lane1 and Daniel Metzen3, (1)University of Melbourne, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, Parkville, VIC, Australia, (2)University of Melbourne, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, Parkville, VIC, Australia, (3)Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Richmond, NSW, Australia
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