GC51E:
The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land, Atmosphere, and Society IV Posters

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Session ID#: 12716

Session Description:
Anthropogenic and natural fires are an important component of the Earth system. Geographic location, fuel type, seasonality and intensity of fire largely determine the sign and magnitude of feedbacks on the Earth system. The aim of this session is to explore links between fire, vegetation, climate and humans from the local to the global scale and determine how these interactions will change in a warming world. We encourage abstracts that explore the interactions of fires with the terrestrial biosphere and atmosphere using remote sensing, in situ observations, modeling, or an integrated approach with an emphasis on (1) impacts of fire on weather and climate, atmospheric chemistry and air quality, (2) the role of fires in the carbon cycle and ecosystem functioning, (3) the influence of humans on fire (and vice versa), and (4) the changing nature of fire over millennia, and predictions for the future.
Primary Convener:  Daniel S Ward, Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Sander Veraverbeke, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Guido van der Werf, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands and Mick Tosca, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs:  Daniel S Ward, Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States and Guido van der Werf, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
OSPA Liaison:  Guido van der Werf, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

0315 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3390 Wildland fire model [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Early snow melts and biomass burning over Eastern Eurasia and their impacts on the air quality in Northern Japan (117914)
Dr. Teppei J Yasunari, PhD, Hokkaido University, Arctic Research Center, Sapporo, Japan, Arlindo daSilva, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Masayuki Akiyama, Hokkaido Research Organization, Hokkaido, Japan, Masamitsu Hayasaki, National Institute of Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan, Naoto Murao, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan and Kyu-Myong Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Effects of Degree of Curing on Fire Spread (125695)
Wasin Chaivaranont, Jason Peter Evans and Yi Liu, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
The impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests (129595)
Park Williams, Columbia University, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and John T Abatzoglou, University of California Merced, Merced, United States
Fire Events and Soil Thermometry: The Applications of Clay Chemistry for Tracing Temperature Changes in Soils and Sediments Below Surface Fires (134978)
Emily Watson1, Scott P Werts2 and Maria Gelabert1, (1)Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, United States, (2)Winthrop University, Chemistry, Physics, Geology, and the Environment, Rock Hill, SC, United States
Characterization of the Fire Regime and Drivers of Fires in the West African Tropical Forest (135618)
Francis K. Dwomoh, University of Oklahoma, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, OK, United States and Michael C Wimberly, South Dakota State University, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence, Brookings, SD, United States
Development and Application of Version 2.1 of the Fire INventory from NCAR (FINN) (137112)
Elena McDonald-Buller, Center for Energy and Environmental Resources, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Christine Wiedinmyer, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Yosuke Kimura, University of Texas at Austin, Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis, Austin, United States
Mapping Live Fuel Moisture and the relation to drought and post fire events for Southern California region (162234)
Nikolaos Hatzopoulos1, Seung Hee Kim2, Menas Kafatos1, Son V Nghiem3 and Boksoon Myoung4, (1)Chapman University, CEESMO, Orange, CA, United States, (2)Chapman University, Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing (ECHO), Orange, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)APEC Climate Center, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South)
RST-FIRES, an exportable algorithm for early/small fires detection: field validation and algorithm inter-comparison by using MSG-SEVIRI data over Italian Regions (171970)
Rossana Paciello1, Carolina Filizzola1, Rosita Corrado2, Francesco Marchese1, Giuseppe Mazzeo1, Nicola Pergola1, Valerio Tramutoli1,2 and Mariano Lisi2, (1)IMAA/CNR, Tito Scalo (Pz), Italy, (2)University of Basilicata, School of Engineering, Potenza, Italy
Studying the Post-Fire Response of Vegetation in California Protected Areas with NDVI-based Pheno-Metrics (140024)
Jia Shenyue, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Thomas W Gillespie, UCLA-Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Early Detection of Lightning Caused Wildfires and Prediction of Wildfire Behavior through Energy Distribution, Atmospherics, Geophysics, the Sun's Azimuth, and Topology (165926)
Chris Giesige1, Ervey Nava1 and WESTCATS, (1)WESTCATS, Folsom, CA, United States
Burned areas for the conterminous U.S. from 1984 through 2015, an automated approach using dense time-series of Landsat data (142043)
Todd J Hawbaker1, Melanie Vanderhoof2, Yen-Ju G. Beal3, Josh D Takacs3, Gail Schmidt4, Jeff Falgout5, Nicole M. Brunner3,6, Megan Kathleen Caldwell3,6, Joshua J Picotte7, Stephen M Howard8, Susan Stitt3 and John L Dwyer9, (1)US Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Lakewood, United States, (2)US Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, CO, United States, (3)US Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Lakewood, CO, United States, (4)Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Contractor to the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (5)U.S. Geological Survey, Core Science, Analytics, Synthesis, and Libraries, Lakewood, United States, (6)USGS-GECSC, Lakewood, CO, United States, (7)ASRC Federal Data Solutions, Contractor to the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (8)USGS EROS Data Ctr, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (9)U.S. Geological Survey EROS Center, Department of the Interior, Sioux Falls, SD, United States
Mapping Fuel Loads and Dynamics in Rangelands Using Multi-Sensor Data in the Great Basin, USA (176477)
Hua Shi, AFDS, contractor to USGS EROS, Sioux Falla, United States, James E Vogelmann, USGS EROS Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Todd J Hawbaker, USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States, Matthew C Reeves, US Forest Service Missoula, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, MT, United States and Zhengpeng Li, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Warm Dry Weather Conditions Cause of 2016 Fort McMurray Wild Forest Fire and Associated Air Quality (136325)
Samara Calçado de Azevedo, UNESP Sao Paulo State University, Department of Cartography, Rio Claro, Brazil, Ramesh P Singh, Chapman University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Orange, CA, United States and Erivaldo Antonio da Silva Sr., UNESP Sao Paulo State University, Department of Cartography, Presidente Prudente, Brazil
Temporal and Spatial Variations of Wildfire in the Boreal Eurasia During 2005-2014 and Relations with Climatic Indices (139970)
Chunmao Zhu1, Yugo Kanaya1, Hideki Kobayashi2 and Masahiko Saito1, (1)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan, (2)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Research Institute for Global Change, Yokohama, Japan
Fire history and human activity in last 2000 years reconstructed from varved lake sediments (N Poland) (143699)
Anna Pienczewska1,2, Michal M Slowinski3, Milena Obremska4, Florian Ott5, Florian Ott5, Elisabeth Dietze5, Angelica Feurdean6, Martin Theuerkauf7 and Achim Brauer8, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Institute of Geography, Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland, (3)Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences,, Department of Environmental Resources and Geohazards, Warsaw, Poland, (4)Institute of Geological Sciences Polish Academy of Sciences, Research Centre in Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland, (5)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (6)Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre BiK-F, Frankfurt, Germany, (7)Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Institute for Geography and Geology, Greifswald, Germany, (8)GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 5.2 - Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, Potsdam, Germany
Asynchronous Timing of Lightning Strikes and Santa Ana Winds in Southern California (144320)
Jacob Bendix and Justin J. Hartnett, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States
Regional Modeling of Biomass-Burning Aerosol Impacts (148272)
Chantelle Rose Lonsdale, Atmospheric and Environmental Research Lexington, Lexington, MA, United States, Christopher M Brodowski, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Matthew James Alvarado, Verisk Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, United States, John Henderson, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States, Jeffrey R Pierce, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States and John C Lin, University of Utah, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, United States
Regionally synchronous fires in interior British Columbia, Canada, driven by interannual climate variability and weakly associated with large-scale climate patterns between AD 1600-1900 (148754)
Jill E Harvey and Dan J Smith, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Advances in the Collection 6 MODIS Burned Area Product for Global and Regional Fire Monitoring (148787)
Louis Giglio1, Luigi Boschetti2, David P Roy3, Michael Laurence Humber4, William Walsh5 and Christopher Owen Justice5, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Idaho, College of Natural Resources, Moscow, United States, (3)South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Unburned Areas within Fire Perimeters in the Northwestern United States from 1984 to 2014 (148795)
Arjan J Meddens, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, Crystal Kolden, University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States, James A. Lutz, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, John T Abatzoglou, University of California Merced, Merced, United States and Andrew T Hudak, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, United States
Development of improved wildfire smoke exposure estimates for health studies in the western U.S. (150152)
Cesunica Ivey1, Heather Holmes1, Sandra Marcela Loria Salazar1, Ashley Pierce2 and Cong Liu3,4, (1)University of Nevada Reno, Atmospheric Sciences Program, Department of Physics, Reno, NV, United States, (2)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (3)Southeast University, School of Energy and Environment, Nanjing, China, (4)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States
Climate Variability and Wildfires: Insights from Global Earth System Models (150529)
Daniel S Ward, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Elena Shevliakova, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, United States, Sergey Malyshev, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, J F Lamarque, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Andrew Thorne Wittenberg, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
Towards global Landsat burned area mapping: revisit time and availability of cloud free observations (150710)
Andrea Melchiorre, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States and Luigi Boschetti, University of Idaho, College of Natural Resources, Moscow, United States
Characterizing Global Fire Return Intervals from the MODIS Data Record (150873)
Maria Zubkova, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States and Luigi Boschetti, University of Idaho, College of Natural Resources, Moscow, United States
On the Causes of the Summer 2015 Pacific Northwest Wildfires (151036)
Ruth Engel, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, Dr. Miriam E Marlier, PhD, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Robert D Field, Columbia University of New York, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Palisades, NY, United States and Dennis P Lettenmaier, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Integrating Fire Effects into an Ecohydrologic Model for Simulating Fire Regimes (152757)
Ryan R Bart, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Christina (Naomi) Tague, University of California Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Maureen C Kennedy, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and Don McKenzie, US Forest Service, Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences, Seattle, United States
Ecohydrological Projections of Fire Regimes: Balancing Uncertainty and Complexity to Integrate Cross-disciplinary Simulation Systems (159537)
Maureen C Kennedy, University of Washington Tacoma, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Tacoma, WA, United States, Don McKenzie, US Forest Service, Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences, Seattle, United States, Christina (Naomi) Tague, University of California Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Ryan R Bart, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
MID- TO LATE-HOLOCENE FIRE HISTORY, VEGETATION, AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE GRAND STAIRCASE REGION OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU, SOUTHWEST UTAH (161457)
Kerry Elizabeth Riley, Utah State University, Geology Department, Logan, UT, United States, Tammy M Rittenour, Utah State University, Department of Geosciences, Logan, UT, United States and Robert J DeRose, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ogden, UT, United States
Modeling Future Fire danger over North America in a Changing Climate (162705)
Piyush Jain, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Debasish Paimazumder, NCAR, BOULDER, CO, United States, James Done, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Mike Flannigan, University of Alberta, Renewable Resources, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Assessing Climate Change in Early Warm Season and Impacts on Wildfire Potential in the Southwestern United States (165814)
Menas Kafatos1, Seung Hee Kim2, Jinwon Kim3, Son V Nghiem4, Francis Fujioka1 and Boksoon Myoung1, (1)Chapman University, CEESMO, Orange, CA, United States, (2)Chapman University, Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing (ECHO), Orange CA, United States, (3)Korean Meteorological Administration, Seoguipo, South Korea, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
A decadal glimpse on climate and burn severity influences on ponderosa pine post-fire recovery (167298)
Beth A Newingham, USDA ARS, Great Basin Rangelands Research Unit, Reno, NV, United States, Andrew T Hudak, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, United States, Benjamin C. Bright, Rocky Mountain Research Station Moscow, Moscow, ID, United States, April Smith, University of Nevada Reno, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Reno, NV, United States and Azad Henareh Khalyani, Colorado State University, Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Increased Fire Risk in a Warming and Drying Climate (169380)
Shahrbanou Madadgar1, Amir AghaKouchak1, Todd J Sanford2 and Alyson Kenward2, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States
Simulating Fire Disturbance and Plant Mortality Using Antecedent Eco-hydrological Conditions to Inform a Physically Based Combustion Model (170424)
Adam Lee Atchley1, Rodman Linn1, Richard Middleton1, Isabelle Runde1, Ethan Coon2 and Sean T Michaletz1, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Development of a Method for Selecting Optimum Sites for the Automatic Mountain Meteorology Observation Station (AMOS) to Improve Predictability of Forest Fires in Inaccessible Area (171438)
Sukhee Yoon1, Myoungsoo Won2, Keunchang Jang3 and Jonghwan Lim3, (1)National Institute of Forest Science, Forest Conservation, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)National Institute of Forest Science, Forest Resource Management and Restoration Division, Seoul, South Korea, (3)National Institute of Forest Science, Forest Ecology and Climate Change Division, Seoul, South Korea
Modelling Spatial Patterns and Drivers of Wildfires in Honduras Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (171567)
Miguel Conrado Valdez Vasquez1, Chi-Farn Chen1 and Tang-Huang Lin2, (1)National Central University, Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, Taoyuan, Taiwan, (2)National Central University, Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, Kanagawa, Japan
Forest Fire Danger Rating (FFDR) Prediction over the Korean Peninsula (176359)
Byungil Song1, Myoungsoo Won2, Keunchang Jang3, Sukhee Yoon3 and Jonghwan Lim3, (1)National Institute of Forest Science, Forest Conservation, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)National Institute of Forest Science, Forest Resource Management and Restoration Division, Seoul, South Korea, (3)National Institute of Forest Science, Forest Ecology and Climate Change Division, Seoul, South Korea
Spatial and Temporal Intercomparison of Four Global Burned Area Products (178519)
Michael Laurence Humber, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Luigi Boschetti, University of Idaho, College of Natural Resources, Moscow, United States, Louis Giglio, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Christopher Owen Justice, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Using Google Earth Engine To Apply Spectral Mixture Analysis Over Landsat 5TM Imagery To Map Fire Scars In The Alto Teles Pires River Basin, Mato Grosso State, Brazil. (180403)
Gabriel Antunes Daldegan, Fernanda Ribeiro and Dar A Roberts, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Assessing the Impacts of Fire on Water-Use Efficiency in Grasslands in Eastern Kansas Combining Satellite and Eddy Covariance Data (183997)
Gabriel de Oliveira and Nathaniel A Brunsell, University of Kansas, Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, Lawrence, KS, United States
Predicting Fire-Regime Responses to Climate Change Over the Past Millennium: Implications of Paleodata-Model Comparisons for Future Projections of Fire Activity (184960)
Adam M Young, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, Philip Higuera, University of Montana, Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences College of Forestry and Conservation, Missoula, MT, United States, John T Abatzoglou, University of California Merced, Merced, United States, Paul Duffy, Neptune and Company, Lakewood, United States and Fengsheng Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Near real-time estimation of burned area using VIIRS 375 m active fire product (189300)
Patricia Oliva, Hémera Centro de Observación de la Tierra, Escuela de Ingeniería Forestal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile and Wilfrid Schroeder, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Effects of Climate Oscillations on Burning Index Variability in the Continental United States (189706)
Shelby Mason, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States, Peter Hamlington, Univ of Colorado, Mechanical Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States, Benjamin Hamlington, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, William M Jolly, USFS, RMRS, Missoula, MT, United States and Chad M Hoffman, Colorado State University, Forest and Rangeland Stewardship Program, Fort Collins, CO, United States
A Monte Carlo Approach to Modeling Wildfire Risk on Changing Landscapes (195254)
Amy M Burzynski and Andrew Beavers, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Environmental Controls on Wildfire Emission Factors in Alaska during the Summer of 2015 (197995)
Elizabeth Brooke Wiggins, University of California, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States

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