GC42C:
The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land, Atmosphere, and Society II

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Session ID#: 15839

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, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Mick Tosca, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs:  Mick Tosca, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Sander Veraverbeke, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sander Veraverbeke, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States

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:

Evaluation of Satellite-derived Fire Emissions Datasets Using the GEOS-5 Model (175524)
Charles M Ichoku1, Xiaohua Pan2, Huisheng Bian3, Mian Chin1, Luke Ellison4, Arlindo da SIlva1 and Anton Darmenov1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA GSFC/GES DISC, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory (Code 614), Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Using NPP-Suomi VIIRS I-band data to delineate high- and low-intensity burn areas for forest fires in interior Alaska (195423)
Christine F Waigl1, Anupma Prakash2, Martin Stuefer2 and Charles M Ichoku3, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
FIREX: Aerosol Science Priorities for the 2018 WP-3D Campaign (187566)
Dr. Joshua Peter Schwarz, PhD, NOAA Boulder, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, Dr. James Roberts, PhD, NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, Carsten Warneke, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Robert J Yokelson, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States
A global database of smoke injection heights from landscape fires: an analysis of 2009-2010 (193066)
Matthew K Laffin1,2, Robert Fofrich1, Samuel Bell1 and Mick Tosca3, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
The Status of Global Fire Modeling: Results from the Fire Model Intercomparison Project (FireMIP) (150002)
Stijn Hantson1, Almut Arneth2, Sandy P Harrison3,4, Sam S Rabin1, Douglas Kelley4,5, Dominique M Bachelet6, Matthew Forrest7, Silvia Kloster8, Gitta Lasslop8, Fang Li9, Stephane Mangeon10, Joe R Melton11, Tim Sheehan6 and Chao Yue12, (1)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, (2)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, (3)University of Reading, School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Sciences (SAGES), Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, (4)Macquarie University, School of Biological Sciences, Sydney, Australia, (5)University of Reading, School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Sciences (SAGES), Reading, United Kingdom, (6)Conservation Biology Institute, Corvallis, OR, United States, (7)Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt/Main, Germany, (8)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (9)Institude of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (10)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (11)CCCma, Victoria, BC, Canada, (12)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France
Multiple stable states of tree cover due to a fire - vegetation feedback (171285)
Gitta Lasslop1, Victor Brovkin1, Christian H. Reick1, Sebastian Bathiany2 and Silvia Kloster1, (1)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (2)Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, Netherlands
Climate and human intervention effects on future fire activity and consequences for air pollution across the 21st century (141210)
Maria Val Martin, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10, United Kingdom, Jeffrey R Pierce, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, Colette L Heald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, United States, Fang Li, Institude of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, David M Lawrence, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Christine Wiedinmyer, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Simone Tilmes, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Francis Vitt, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, United States
Fire radiative forcing for preindustrial, present day and future conditions in an interactive Earth System Model (168370)
Keren Mezuman1,2, Susanne Bauer3 and Kostas Tsigaridis3,4, (1)Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, (2)Center for Climate Systems Research, New York, NY, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, (4)Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, New York, United States

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