NH010
The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land, Atmosphere, and Society I

Tuesday, 8 December 2020: 05:30-06:30
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Catherine M Dieleman, University of Guelph, Department of Integrative Biology, Guelph, ON, Canada
Conveners:  Mika Tosca, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States, Jessica L McCarty, Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States and Brendan M Rogers, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Catherine M Dieleman, University of Guelph, Department of Integrative Biology, Guelph, ON, Canada
Chairs:  Mika Tosca, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States, Brendan M Rogers, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Jessica L McCarty, Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States and Catherine M Dieleman, University of Guelph, Department of Integrative Biology, Guelph, ON, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  Jessica L McCarty, Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States
05:30
Introductory Remarks
05:35
Quantifying the drivers and predictability of seasonal changes in African fire (678058)
Jiafu Mao1, Yan Yu2, Peter E Thornton3, Michael Notaro4, Stan Wullschleger5, Xiaoying Shi1, Forrest M. Hoffman6 and Yaoping Wang7, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (6)Computational Earth Sciences Group and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (7)University of Tennessee, Institute for a Secure & Sustainable Environment, Knoxville, TN, United States
05:40
Disentangling burned area drivers over the Brazilian savanna (761329)
Patrícia S. Silva1, Renata Libonati1,2, Filippe L.M. Santos2, Julia A. Rodrigues2, Joana Nogueira2 and Carlos DaCamara1, (1)Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, Lisboa, Portugal, (2)Departamento de Meteorologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
05:45
Regional Climate Impacts of El-Nino Induced Extreme Biomass Burning Emissions in Equatorial Asia (746902)
Matthew Kasoar1, Clara Bayley2, Chris Wells1 and Apostolos Voulgarakis1,3, (1)Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom, (2)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)Technical University of Crete, School of Environmental Engineering, Chania, Greece
05:50
Human-driven temporal shifts in fire activity: southwest Russia and north Australia as case study regions (687552)
Tianjia Liu, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Loretta J. Mickley, Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Jessica L McCarty, Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States
05:55
Wildfire ignitions in California: spatial and temporal patterns and drivers (742143)
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, Michael Goulden, Univesity of California, Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States and James Tremper Randerson, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
06:00
Human-ignited fires spread faster and kill more trees in Californian forests (765573)
Stijn Hantson, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Niels Andela, Cardiff University, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Michael Goulden, Univesity of California, Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States and James Tremper Randerson, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
06:05
Impact of Wildfire on Surface Energy Balance in Six California Case Studies (683540)
David Rother and Fernando De Sales, San Diego State University, Geography, San Diego, CA, United States
06:10
Discussion
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