A44E:
Wildfire in a Changing World: Interactions with Climate and Ecosystems I


Session ID#: 10915

Session Description:
Increasing observational and modeling evidence show that wildfire has been changing around the globe since preindustrial times as a result of climate change and human activities.  For example, extreme large wildfires in regions such Indonesia are major public health concerns. In the western United States in recent decades, wildfire has steadily increased with a drying environment and taken an ever larger toll on the local economy. In this session, we encourage studies that improve the modeling and measurement capabilities and make use of these capabilities to investigate physical and chemical processes that elucidate wildfire interactions with regional and global climate, ecosystems, and air quality.
Primary Convener:  Yuhang Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States
Conveners:  Hanqin Tian, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States, Xiaohong Liu, Texas A&M University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College Station, United States and Yongqiang Liu, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA, United States
Chairs:  Yuhang Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States and Yun Qian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Yuhang Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • IGBP: International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme -
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0315 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Assessments of Regional Climate Change and Land-Cover Change Impacts on Fire Weather in the United States (Invited) (70096)
Warren E Heilman1, Lisi Pei2, Ying Tang2, Xindi Bian3, Shiyuan Sharon Zhong2, Lifeng Luo4 and Lejiang Yu Sr2, (1)USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States, (2)Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Lansing, MI, United States, (4)Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, United States
Climate Responses to Changes in Land-surface Properties due to Wildfires (62697)
Yongqiang Liu, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA, United States, Xianjun Hao, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, United States and John J Qu, George Mason University, Fairfax, United States
Assessing the Impacts of Wildfire Aerosols on the Diurnal Cycles of Stratocumulus Clouds over Southeast Atlantic Using WRF-Chem (80730)
Zheng Lu, Texas A&M University College Station, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College Station, United States, Xiaohong Liu, Texas A&M University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College Station, United States and Zhibo Zhang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
Increasing ENSO-Driven Drought and Wildfire Risks in a Warming Climate (79887)
John Fasullo1, Bette L Otto-Bliesner1 and Samantha Stevenson2, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Development of a region-specific fire scheme in the CESM framework (71508)
Yufei Zou1, Yuhang Wang2, Ziming Ke1 and Yongjia Song3, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States, (3)Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
Drought and Wildfire Impacts on Carbon and Water Cycles in Terrestrial Ecosystems (83682)
Jia Yang1, Hanqin Tian2, Shree R.S. Dangal3, Bowen Zhang4, Shufen Pan4, Yongqiang Liu5 and Yuhang Wang6, (1)International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States, (2)Auburn University, Auburn, United States, (3)International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, Auburn, AL, United States, (4)Auburn University, International Center for Climate and Global Change Research and School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, AL, United States, (5)USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA, United States, (6)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States
Experiments on the Multiphase Chemistry of Isocyanic Acid, HNCO. (81569)
James Roberts, NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States and Yong Liu, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, United States

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