B21I:
Quantifying Drivers of Global and Regional Fire Patterns Using Data and Models II

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Session ID#: 32024

Session Description:
Fire is a critical component of Earth system dynamics and the carbon cycle.  However, since climate and human driving factors vary considerably over time and space, capturing observed patterns using simulations remains a major challenge.  These challenges also result in important uncertainties in predicting future fire activity, understanding past fire activity, and quantifying the role of fire in the Earth system.  Paleorecords offer a diverse source of global/regional fire data on decadal to millennial timescales.  The present day has extensive satellite records and increasingly detailed observations.  Fire models are informed by present day records, but offer a way to test fundamental hypotheses well beyond the present.  This session includes presentations that aim to quantify the role of humans and climate in driving patterns of fire at multiple spatiotemporal scales.  The goal of our session is to foster interdisciplinary discussions of how data can inform models, and models can inform data.
Primary Convener:  Brian Indrek Magi, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States
Conveners:  Sam S Rabin, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, Fang Li, Institude of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Guido van der Werf, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Chairs:  Brian Indrek Magi, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States and Fang Li, Institude of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
OSPA Liaison:  Brian Indrek Magi, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0434 Data sets [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0466 Modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Grand challenges in developing a predictive understanding of global fire dynamics (292348)
James Tremper Randerson1, Yang Chen2, Elizabeth Brooke Wiggins1, Niels Andela3, Douglas C Morton4, Sander Veraverbeke5 and Guido van der Werf5, (1)University of California, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Eurasian methoxy aromatic acid ice core record of biomass burning (Invited) (288759)
Mackenzie Grieman, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Murat Aydin, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, Diedrich Fritzsche, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, Joseph R McConnell, Desert Research Institute, Division of Hydrologic Science, Reno, United States, Thomas Opel, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research, Department of Periglacial Research, Potsdam, Germany, Michael Sigl, Paul Scherrer Institut, Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Villigen, Switzerland and Eric S Saltzman, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States
A multi-sensor burned area algorithm for crop residue burning in northwestern India: validation and sources of error (284889)
Tianjia Liu, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Dr. Miriam E Marlier, PhD, Columbia University, New York, United States, Alexandra N Karambelas, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Meha Jain, University of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, United States and Ruth S DeFries, Columbia University, Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, New York, NY, United States
PyrE, an interactive fire module within the NASA-GISS Earth System Model (253711)
Keren Mezuman1,2, Susanne Bauer3,4 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)Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, New York, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States

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