GC42B
The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land, Atmosphere, and Society II

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
3001 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Sander Veraverbeke, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Conveners:  Michael G Tosca Jr, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Daniel S Ward, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and Brendan M Rogers, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States
Chairs:  Sander Veraverbeke, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Brendan M Rogers, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, Michael G Tosca Jr, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Daniel S Ward, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Michael G Tosca Jr, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
10:20
GC42B-01
High-resolution remote sensing and coupled fire-weather simulation modeling offer unprecedented insight to megafire behavior: The 2014 California King Megafire case study (80519)
E. Natasha Stavros, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
10:35
GC42B-02
Effects of Climate and Fuels Management on Wildfire Occurrence, Size, Severity and Emissions in the Sierra Nevada (Invited) (58503)
Anthony Leroy Westerling, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States
10:50
GC42B-03
The Burning of Surface and Deep Peat during Boreal Forest and Peatland Fires: Implications for Fire Behaviour and Global Carbon Cycling (Invited) (71216)
Merritt R Turetsky, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
11:05
GC42B-04
Fire and Deforestation Dynamics in South America over the Past 50 Years (72622)
Margreet van Marle, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Robert D Field, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Guido van der Werf, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
11:20
GC42B-05
Air quality and human health improvements from reduced deforestation in Brazil (64905)
Carly Reddington, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Edward William Butt, University of Leeds, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, David A Ridley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Paulo Artaxo, USP University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, William Morgan, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13, United Kingdom, Hugh Coe, University of Manchester, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Manchester, United Kingdom and Dominick V Spracklen, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom
11:35
GC42B-06
How do Biomass Burning Carbon Monixide Emissions from South America influence Satellite Observed Columns over Africa? (66210)
Maarten C Krol, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, Thijs T. van Leeuwen, Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, Netherlands, Benjamin Aouizerats, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Guido van der Werf, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
11:50
GC42B-07
Evidence of Fire-Induced Rainfall Modification in sub-Saharan Africa (85551)
Michael Saha, Todd M Scanlon and Paolo D'Odorico, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States
12:05
GC42B-08
The Impact of Fire on Energy Balance in Southern African Savanna Ecosystems: Implications of Climate Change (82642)
Greg S Okin1, Kebonye Dintwe1, Michael Saha2, Todd M Scanlon2, Paolo D'Odorico2, Fernando De Sales3 and Yongkang Xue3, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
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