NH041
The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land, Atmosphere, and Society
Session ID#: 80053
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 community 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 and human communities on fire (and vice versa), and (4) the changing nature of fire over millennia, and predictions for the future.
Index Terms:
0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
4337 Remote sensing and disasters [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Primary Convener: Jessica L McCarty, Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States
Conveners: Mika Tosca, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, Catherine M Dieleman, University of Guelph, Department of Integrative Biology, Guelph, ON, Canada and Xanthe Walker, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, United States
Primary Liaison: Jessica L McCarty, Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States
Burning mismatches in firescapes of the mid-Atlantic (495335)
Erica A H Smithwick1, Katherine Zipp2, Hong Wu3, Margot Kaye4, Alan H Taylor5, Zach Miller3, Cody Dems3, Anthony Zhao3, Yau-Huo Shr6 and Peter Newman3, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geography, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, University Park, PA, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, (4)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Ecosystem Science and Management, University Park, PA, United States, (5)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (6)National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Estimating fire intensity, severity and greenhouse gas emissions for a working savanna landscape in Mali, West Africa (496997)
Paul Laris, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, United States, Rebecca Jocobs, CSULB, Long Beach, United States, Moussa Kone, Institut de Géographie Tropicale / Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Côte D'ivoire and Fadiala Dembele, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali
Improved Cropland Burning Emissions Inventory in Ukraine: A Regional Case Study (497665)
Joanne Hall1, Sergiy V Zibtsev2, Victor Myroniuk2, Sergii Skakun3, Oleksandr Zhuravel4 and Louis Giglio5, (1)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (2)National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Forestry and Landscape-Park Management, Kyiv, Ukraine, (3)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (4)Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, Kyiv, Ukraine, (5)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
Fire Progression Mapping: An Examination of Interpolation Techniques Utilizing MODIS and VIIRS Active Fire Products in Northern California (500787)
Erica Scaduto, University of California Davis, Geography, Davis, CA, United States, Yufang Jin, University of California - Davis, Land, Air, and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States and Bin Chen, University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
Revised estimates of agricultural fire emissions for Punjab, India: bridging gaps in satellite observations using household survey data (506570)
Tianjia Liu, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Loretta J. Mickley, Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Sukhwinder Singh, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, United States, Meha Jain, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Ruth S DeFries, Columbia University, Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, New York, NY, United States and Miriam E Marlier, RAND Corporation Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA, United States
Fire behavior and climate drive functional thresholds of tropical forest and savanna biome stable states: Insights from an ecosystem demography model (518553)
Jacquelyn K Shuman1, Rosemary Fisher2, Charles Koven3 and Ryan G Knox3, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Tropical Rainforest and Shifting Cultivation: Understanding the Role of Anthropogenic Fire throughout the Late Holocene in Tropical Rainforest in West Kalimantan, Indonesia (521926)
Lauren B Hendricks1, Gusti Z Anshari2 and Daniel Girard Gavin1, (1)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (2)Tanjungpura University, Magister of Environment, and Soil Science Department, Pontianak, Indonesia
A new way to look at fire: Computer vision applied to fire dynamics (544413)
Daryn Sagel1, Kevin Speer1 and Bryan Quaife2, (1)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (2)Florida State University, Scientific Computing, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Examining how ignition patterns control consumption of surface and canopy fuels using coupled fire-atmospheric models (550663)
Daniel Rosales Giron, United States, Rodman Linn, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Kevin Heirs, Tall Timbers, Tallahassee, United States, Kevin Speer, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Bryan Quaife, Florida State University, Scientific Computing, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Using atmospheric stability indices to predict extreme wildfire growth events in Western Canada (558863)
Xinli Cai M.Sc1, Piyush Jain2 and Mike Flannigan1, (1)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Does Increased Santa Ana Wind Intensity Change Simulated Spatial Burn Probability In Southern California? (560471)
Alex W Dye, Corvallis, OR, United States, John B Kim, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, United States and Karin L. Riley, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT, United States
Century-scale fire dynamics in a temperate oak savanna ecosystem (584905)
Kendra K McLauchlan, Kansas State University, Department of Geography, Manhattan, KS, United States, Berangere A Leys, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon Cedex, France, Daniel Griffin, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Geography, Environment & Society, Minneapolis, United States and Evan R Larson, University of Wisconsin Platteville, Platteville, WI, United States
Overlapping and interacting fires, a double whammy: Short-interval burns are becoming more frequent across the US West but pace suggests negative feedbacks and spatial patterning (595479)
Brian Buma, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, United States, Katherine Hayes, University of Colorado Denver, Integrative and Systems Biology, Denver, CO, United States, Shelby Weiss, Portland State University, Geography, Portland, OR, United States and Melissa Sue Lucash, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States
A Turbulent Pipe Model for Fire Spread (601494)
Julia Oliveto, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Kevin Speer, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Bryan Quaife, Florida State University, Scientific Computing, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Nick Skowronski, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Morgantown, WV, United States
Calculating Distributions of 3D Litter Layers with Numerical Simulations (602591)
David Robinson1, Eric Rowell2, Bryan Quaife1 and Kevin Heirs3, (1)Florida State University, Scientific Computing, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (2)Tall Timbers, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (3)Tall Timbers, Tallahassee, United States
Spatiotemporal patterns and environmental controls on increasing wildfires in Sierra Nevada, California (602807)
Bin Chen, University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States, Yufang Jin, University of California - Davis, Land, Air, and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States, Erica Scaduto, University of California Davis, Geography, Davis, CA, United States, Max Moritz, University of California, Santa Barbara , UC Cooperative Extension, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Michael Goulden, Univesity of California, Irvine, CA, United States and James Tremper Randerson, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Advances in fire science from a constellation of satellite sensors (609375)
Douglas C Morton1, James Tremper Randerson2, Niels Andela3, Yang Chen2, Louis Giglio4, Wilfrid Schroeder5, Michael Goulden6, Lesley E Ott1, Andrew T Hudak7 and Joel McCorkel8, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (5)NOAA, NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product Operations, College Park, MD, United States, (6)Univesity of California, Irvine, CA, United States, (7)USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, ID, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Quantifying uncertainties of small fires in the contiguous U.S. from existing land-cover/land-use and fire satellite products (613056)
Aihua LI1, Jessica L McCarty1, Emily Marie Gargulinski2, Justin J Fain1 and Amber Jeanine Soja3, (1)Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States, (2)Universities Space Research Association, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, United States
Modeling impacts of climate-driven changes in fuel moisture on fire behavior in the southeastern U.S. longleaf pine ecosystem (619471)
Alexandra K Jonko1, Adam L Atchley1, Rodman Linn1, Kevin Heirs2 and Brett Williams3, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Tall Timbers, Tallahassee, United States, (3)US Air Force, Eglin Air Force Base, United States
