GC33D:
The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land and Atmosphere Toward Improved Fire Management III Posters

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Michael G Tosca Jr, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Sander Veraverbeke, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States and Guido van der Werf, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, 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:  Sander Veraverbeke, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
The Effect of Prescribed Burns and Wildfire on Vegetation in Bastrop State Park, TX
Christina Jade Justice, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
Decadal Contributions of Fire Disturbance to the Carbon Balance of Boreal Ecosystems Using a Process-Based Global Dynamic Vegetation Model
Chao Yue1, Philippe Ciais2, Dan Zhu2, Tao Wang2, Shushi Peng1 and Gerhard Krinner1, (1)LGGE Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Saint Martin d'Hères, France, (2)CEA Saclay DSM / LSCE, Gif sur Yvette, France
539
 
Integrating Plant Evolution into the Study of Fire in the Earth System
Sally Archibald, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and Caroline Lehmann, University of Edinburgh, School of GeoScienes, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
540
 
Relationships Between Fire and Land Use Change in the Brazilian Amazon Based on Satellite Data
Thierry Fanin and Guido van der Werf, VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
541
 
Holocene Vegetation and Fire Dynamics on the Chilcotin Plateau, BC, Canada
Kendrick J Brown, Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Richard Hebda, Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, BC, Canada and Brad Hawkes, Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, BC, Canada
542
 
Observational Evidence of Cloud Fraction Reduction and Convective Inhibition Attributed to Fire-Emitted Aerosols in Tropical Africa
Michael G Tosca Jr, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Los Angeles, CA, United States, David J Diner, JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, Michael J Garay, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Olga Kalashnikova, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
543
 
Discriminating Natural Variation from Legacies of Disturbance in Semi-Arid Forests, Southwestern USA
Tyson Lee Swetnam1, Ann M Lynch2, Donald A Falk1, Stephen R Yool1 and David P Guertin1, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO, United States
544
 
When a Refuge is No More: Higher than Expected Wildfire Severity in Historical Forest Refugia 
Tyler Bleeker1, Crystal Kolden1, Ann E Camp2, Paul F Hessburg Sr3 and Helen Poulos4, (1)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (2)Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, United States, (3)USDA-Forest Service, Wenatchee, WA, United States, (4)Wesleyan University, College of the Environment, Middletown, CT, United States
545
 
Global Fire Emissions Database version 4 (GFED4)
Guido van der Werf1, James Tremper Randerson2, Louis Giglio3, Yang Chen4, Brendan M Rogers4 and Thijs T Van Leeuwen5, (1)VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (2)Univ California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (5)VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
546
 
The Alaskan Fire Emissions Database (AKFED): analysis of environmental controls on daily fire emissions and comparison with atmospheric trace gas measurements
Sander Veraverbeke1, Brendan M Rogers2, Elizabeth Brooke Wiggins1 and James Tremper Randerson1, (1)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)Woods Hole Science Center Falmouth, Falmouth, MA, United States
547
 
Using High Resolution Model Data to Improve Lightning Forecasts across Southern California
Scott B Capps, Vertum Partners, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Tom Rolinski, US Forest Service Riverside, Predictive Services, Riverside, CA, United States
548
 
Widespread climate-driven increases in global wildfire season length (1979-2013) and potential carbon cycle feedbacks
William Matthew Jolly1, Mark A Cochrane2, Patrick H Freeborn2, Zachary A Holden3, Timothy J Brown4, Grant J Williamson5 and David M. J. S. Bowman6, (1)US Forest Service Missoula, Missoula, MT, United States, (2)South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States, (3)University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, (4)Desert Research Inst, Reno, NV, United States, (5)University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, (6)University of Tasmania, School of Biological Sciences, Hobart, Australia
549
 
Black Carbon Emissions from Fires in Northern Eurasia from 2002 to 2012
Wei Min Hao1, Alexander Petkov1, Rachel Corley1, Bryce Nordgren1, Robin Silverstein1 and Shawn P Urbanski2, (1)US Forest Service Missoula, Missoula, MT, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT, United States
550
 
A global analysis of island pyrogeography
Clay Trauernicht, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Natural Resources and Environmental Management, Honolulu, HI, United States and Brett P Murphy, University of Melbourne, School of Botany, Parkville, Australia
551
 
Fire Characterization and Fire-Related Land Cover Classification Using Hyperion Data over Selected Alaskan Boreal Forest Fires
Christine F Waigl1, Anupma Prakash1, Martin Stuefer1 and Philip E Dennison2, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
552
 
Sensitivity of Estimated Wildfire Emissions to Variations in Vegetation Carbon Pools
Gitta Lasslop and Silvia Kloster, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
553
 
Predicted Megafire Locations under Future Climate Scenarios in the Contiguous United States
Kimberly Anne Lorentz1, Stacy Drury2, Sean M Raffuse1 and Narasimhan K Larkin3, (1)Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA, United States, (2)Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States
554
 
Use of a Regional Climate Model to Diagnose Circulation and Surface Climate Controls of Wildfire in North America
Steven W Hostetler1, Patrick J Bartlein2 and Jay R Alder1, (1)Oregon State University, US Geological Survey, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)University of Oregon, Geography, Eugene, OR, United States
555
 
Fire Regime and Stability of the West African Tropical Forest
Francis K. Dwomoh and Michael C Wimberly, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States
556
 
Climatic Controls of Wildfire in the Boreal Forest and Arctic Tundra Biomes across Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales
Adam M Young1, Philip E Higuera1, Paul Duffy2, Fengsheng Hu3 and Luigi Boschetti1, (1)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (2)Neptune and Company, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, Urbana, IL, United States
557
 
Fire seasonality changes in Côte d’Ivoire revealed through Landsat imagery
Nathan R Pavlovic, Thomas J Bassett and Jonathan A Greenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, Urbana, IL, United States
558
 
Global Fire emissions and its impacts on terrestrial ecosystem carbon budget from 1901 to 2010
Jia Yang1, Hanqin Tian1, Bo Tao1, Wei Ren1, Yuhang Wang2 and Yongqiang Liu3, (1)Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States, (2)Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA, United States