GC41I:
The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land, Atmosphere, and Society I

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Session ID#: 15844

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:  Daniel S Ward, Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States and Sander Veraverbeke, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Daniel S Ward, Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, 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:

Coupled climate-fire-ecosystem dynamics from decades to millennia (Invited) (121454)
Philip E Higuera, University of Montana, Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, Missoula, MT, United States
Impact of fire on global land carbon, water, and energy budgets and climate during the 20th century through changing ecosystems (183689)
Fang Li, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, David M Lawrence, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Ben P Bond-Lamberty, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Richland, WA, United States and Samuel Levis, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States; The Climate Corporation, San Francisco, CA, United States
Potential for Extensive Forest Loss in the Klamath Mountains due to Increased Fire Activity and Altered Post-Fire Forest Recovery Dynamics in a Warming Climate (180746)
Alan J. Tepley, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Conservation Ecology Center, Front Royal, VA, United States, Jonathan R Thompson, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA, United States, Howard E Epstein, University of Virginia, Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Kristina J Anderson-Teixeira, Smithsonian Institution, Front Royal, United States
Large Long-term Effects of Fire on Soil Carbon and Nutrients Across Ecosystems: A Meta-analysis (119168)
Adam Pellegrini, University of Cambridge, Plant Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Sarah E Hobbie, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, St. Paul, MN, United States, Peter B. Reich, University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia, Anders Ahlström, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Stephen W Pacala, Princeton University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton, NJ, United States, Jennifer Marlon, Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, CT, United States, William Anderegg, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States and Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
The impact of a large boreal wildfire on boundary-layer conditions and carbon cycling in adjacent unburned areas: case study of the 2011 Utikuma Complex fire, Alberta, Canada (192653)
Richard M Petrone, University of Waterloo, Geography and Environmental Management, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Dan K Thompson, Canadian Forest Service, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Laura Chasmer, University of Lethbridge, Geography and Environment, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, Natascha Kljun, Swansea University, Geography, Swansea, United Kingdom, Mike Flannigan, University of Alberta, Renewable Resources, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Kevin Devito, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada and James Michael Waddington, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Albedo Dynamics after Fire in Southern Africa; Contributing Factors and Implications for Regional Climate. (154677)
Michael Saha1, Paolo D'Odorico1 and Todd M Scanlon2, (1)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (2)University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, United States
A human-driven decline in global burned area (162083)
Niels Andela, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Douglas C Morton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Yang Chen, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, Guido van der Werf, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Louis Giglio, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Prasad S Kasibhatla, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States and James Tremper Randerson, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Anthropogenic fire and the treeless landscapes of glacial Europe (176334)
Mirjam Pfeiffer1, Jed O Kaplan2, Basil A.S. Davis2 and Jan C. A. Kolen3, (1)Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt, Germany, (2)University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Lausanne, Switzerland, (3)Leiden University, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden, Netherlands

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