Global wildland fire emissions from 1960 to 2000

Schultz, Martin; Heil, Angelika; Hoelzemann, Judith J.; Spessa, Allan; Thonicke, Kirsten; Goldammer, J. G.; Held, Alexander C.; Pereira, José M. C.; Bolscher, M. van het

doi:10.1029/2007gb003031

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“…Our results and the bottom-up methane inventories are consistent in how hydrocarbon emissions from biomass burning changed over time and suggest an MER of 8 on a Tg per Tg basis, in agreement with the earlier estimates 30 . Our estimate of ethane biomass-burning emissions from the variable biomass-burning case is also in good agreement with some independent estimates of historical ethane emissions from biomass burning 16 (green diamonds, left y-axis) and a total burning emissions estimate (biomass burning1biofuels) for present day 6 (red triangle, left y-axis). 23,25 .…”

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Recent decreases in fossil-fuel emissions of ethane and methane derived from firn air

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“…The ethane-based biomass-burning emission history agrees well with some independent estimates 6,16 . However, our fossil-fuel emissions history is quite different from bottom-up methane emission inventories 1,2 (Fig.…”

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Recent decreases in fossil-fuel emissions of ethane and methane derived from firn air

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“…Many studies were conducted on the global emissions from fires and the results ranged from 1.4 to 3.1 PgC a -1 [70][71][72]. Research on carbon emissions from forest fires was also conducted in China, but large differences were found among the results.…”

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Primary estimation of Chinese terrestrial carbon sequestration during 2001–2010

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Quantifying the carbon budgets of terrestrial ecosystems is the foundation on which to understand the role of these ecosystems as carbon sinks and to mitigate global climate change. Through a re-examination of the conceptual framework of ecosystem productivity and the integration of multi-source data, we assumed that the entire terrestrial ecosystems in China to be a large-scale regional biome-society system. We approximated the carbon fluxes of key natural and anthropogenic processes at a regional scale, including fluxes of emissions from reactive carbon and creature ingestion, and fluxes of emissions from anthropogenic and natural disturbances. The gross primary productivity, ecosystem respiration and net ecosystem productivity (NEP) in China were 7.78, 5.89 and 1.89 PgC a -1 , respectively, during the period from 2001 to 2010. After accounting for the consumption of reactive carbon and creature ingestion (0.078 PgC a -1 ), fires (0.002 PgC a -1 ), water erosion (0.038 PgC a -1 ) and agricultural and forestry utilization (0.806 PgC a -1 ), the final carbon sink in China was about 0.966 PgC a -1 ; this was considered as the climate-based potential terrestrial ecosystem carbon sink for the current climate conditions in China. The carbon emissions caused by anthropogenic disturbances accounted for more than 42 % of the NEP, which indicated that humans can play an important role in increasing terrestrial carbon sequestration and mitigating global climate change. This role can be fulfilled by reducing the carbon emissions caused by human activities and by prolonging the residence time of fixed organic carbon in the large-scale regional biome-society system through the improvement of ecosystem management.

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“…However, a comparison of five global biomass burning emission inventories based on different satellite fire or burned area products showed a large range of 365-1422 Tg CO emissions for the year 2003 (Stroppiana et al, 2010;Reddington et al, 2016). Different estimates of biomass burning emissions are also highly variable in the spatial patterns, temporal variability, and long-term trends (Schultz et al, 2008). This means that construction of an emissions dataset for decadal-to-centennial time scale model simulations is challenging, with additional uncertainties likely arising from discontinuities in the observational record (van Marle et al, 2017).…”

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Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report: Assessment of global-scale model performance for global and regional ozone distributions, variability, and trends

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Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

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The goal of the Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report (TOAR) is to provide the research community with an up-to-date scientific assessment of tropospheric ozone, from the surface to the tropopause. While a suite of observations provides significant information on the spatial and temporal distribution of tropospheric ozone, observational gaps make it necessary to use global atmospheric chemistry models to synthesize our understanding of the processes and variables that control tropospheric ozone abundance and its variability. Models facilitate the interpretation of the observations and allow us to make projections of future tropospheric ozone and trace gas distributions for different anthropogenic or natural perturbations. This paper assesses the skill of current-generation global atmospheric chemistry models in simulating the observed present-day tropospheric ozone distribution, variability, and trends. Drawing upon the results of recent international multi-model intercomparisons and using a range of model evaluation techniques, we demonstrate that global chemistry models are broadly skillful in capturing the spatio-temporal variations of tropospheric ozone over the seasonal cycle, for extreme pollution episodes, and changes over interannual to decadal periods. However, models are consistently biased high in the northern hemisphere and biased low in the southern hemisphere, throughout the depth of the troposphere, and are unable to replicate particular metrics that define the longer term trends in tropospheric ozone as derived from some background sites. When the models compare unfavorably against observations, we discuss the potential causes of model biases and propose directions for future developments, including improved evaluations that may be able to better diagnose the root cause of the model-observation disparity. Overall, model results should be approached critically, including determining whether the model performance is acceptable for the problem being addressed, whether biases can be tolerated or corrected, whether the model is appropriately constituted, and whether there is a way to satisfactorily quantify the uncertainty.

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Global wildland fire emissions from 1960 to 2000

Cited by 456 publications

References 82 publications

Recent decreases in fossil-fuel emissions of ethane and methane derived from firn air

Recent decreases in fossil-fuel emissions of ethane and methane derived from firn air

Primary estimation of Chinese terrestrial carbon sequestration during 2001–2010

Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report: Assessment of global-scale model performance for global and regional ozone distributions, variability, and trends

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