TY - JOUR
T1 - Continental-Scale Partitioning of Fire Emissions during the 1997 to 2001 El Niño/La Niña Period
AU - Van Der Werf, Guido R.
AU - Randerson, James T.
AU - Collatz, G. James
AU - Giglio, Louis
AU - Kasibhatla, Prasad S.
AU - Arellano, Avelino F.
AU - Olsen, Seth C.
AU - Kasischke, Eric S.
PY - 2004/1/2
Y1 - 2004/1/2
N2 - During the 1997 to 1998 El Niño, drought conditions triggered widespread increases in fire activity, releasing CH4 and CO 2 to the atmosphere. We evaluated the contribution of fires from different continents to variability in these greenhouse gases from 1997 to 2001, using satellite-based estimates of fire activity, biogeochemical modeling, and an inverse analysis of atmospheric CO anomalies. During the 1997 to 1998 El Niño, the fire emissions anomaly was 2.1 ± 0.8 petagrams of carbon, or 66 ± 24% of the CO2 growth rate anomaly. The main contributors were Southeast Asia (60%), Central and South America (30%), and boreal regions of Eurasia and North America (10%).
AB - During the 1997 to 1998 El Niño, drought conditions triggered widespread increases in fire activity, releasing CH4 and CO 2 to the atmosphere. We evaluated the contribution of fires from different continents to variability in these greenhouse gases from 1997 to 2001, using satellite-based estimates of fire activity, biogeochemical modeling, and an inverse analysis of atmospheric CO anomalies. During the 1997 to 1998 El Niño, the fire emissions anomaly was 2.1 ± 0.8 petagrams of carbon, or 66 ± 24% of the CO2 growth rate anomaly. The main contributors were Southeast Asia (60%), Central and South America (30%), and boreal regions of Eurasia and North America (10%).
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U2 - 10.1126/science.1090753
DO - 10.1126/science.1090753
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0347988234
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 303
SP - 73
EP - 76
JO - Science
JF - Science
IS - 5654
ER -
