GC31E:
The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land and Atmosphere Toward Improved Fire Management I

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Michael G Tosca Jr, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Caroline Lehmann, University of Edinburgh, School of GeoScienes, Edinburgh, United Kingdom and Sander Veraverbeke, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Michael G Tosca Jr, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Yufang Jin, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 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 Liaisons:  Michael G Tosca Jr, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Human drivers of variability in the atmospheric CO2 growth rate
James Tremper Randerson1, Steven J Davis2, Mingquan Mu1, Gretchen Keppel-Aleks3, Douglas C Morton4, Guido van der Werf5 and Ruth S DeFries6, (1)Univ California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (6)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
8:15 AM
 
Recent Advances in Global and Regional Fire Monitoring with the Collection 6 MODIS Fire Products
Louis Giglio1, Wilfrid Schroeder1, Luigi Boschetti2 and Christopher Owen Justice1, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States
8:30 AM
 
Incorporating anthropogenic influences into fire probability models: Effects of development and climate change on fire activity in California
Michael Mann1, Max Moritz2, Enric Batllori2, Eric Waller3, Meg Krawchuk4 and Peter Berck3, (1)George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, (2)University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
8:45 AM
 
The Influence of Fuelbed Physical Properties on Biomass Burning Emissions
Shawn P Urbanski, Emily Lincoln, Stephen P Baker and Megan Richardson, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT, United States
9:00 AM
 
CALIOP-derived Smoke Plume Injection Height
Amber Jeanine Soja1, David M Winker2, Hyun-Deok Choi1, Thomas Duncan Fairlie2, David J Westberg3, Caroline M Roller3, George Pouliot4, Mark Vaughan5, Thomas E Pierce6, Charles R Trepte2 and Venkatesh Rao4, (1)National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (5)NASA, Hampton, VA, United States, (6)EPA, Office of Research and Development, Durham, NC, United States
9:15 AM
 
Implications of the Temporal Resolution of Fire Emissions on Direct and Indirect Aerosol Effects
Anton Darmenov1, Donifan Barahona1, Kyu-Myong Kim1, Arlindo da Silva1, Peter Richard Colarco1 and Ravi Govindaraju1,2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
9:30 AM
 
Large-Scale Forest Responses to Fire in Amazonia
Ann Carla Staver, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States and Paulo M Brando, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States
9:45 AM
 
The role of fire during the Eocene-Oligocene transition in southern South America
Peter A Selkin1,2, Caroline A E Strömberg3, John Boyle4, Alfredo A. Carlini5, K. Siân Davies-Vollum6, Regan E Dunn3, Matthew J Kohn7 and Richard H Madden8, (1)U Washington, Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, United States, (2)University of Washington Tacoma Campus, Division of Sciences and Mathematics, Tacoma, WA, United States, (3)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Biology and Burke Museum, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)University of Liverpool, Department of Geography and Planning, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (5)CONICET, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, La Plata, Argentina, (6)Sheffield Hallam University, Department of Natural and Built Environment, Sheffield, United Kingdom, (7)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, (8)University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States