Modeling the radiative effects of biomass burning aerosols on carbon fluxes in the Amazon region

Moreira, Demerval Soares; Longo, Karla M.; Freitas, Saulo R.; Yamasoe, Márcia Akemi; Mercado, Lina M.; Rosário, Nilton E.; Gloor, Emauel; Viana, Rosane Soares Moreira; Miller, J. B.; Gatti, Luciana V.; Wiedemann, K. T.; Domingues, Lucas G.; Correia, Caio

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“…Her notable works include contributions to characterize fire emissions during the Smoke, Clouds, and Radiation-Brazil (SCAR-B) experiment [134,135] and research to assess plume rise in vegetation fires [136]. Her recent works include evaluating emissions form Cerrado fires and modeling the impacts of biomass burning aerosol emissions from Amazonian fires [137,138].…”

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Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science

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Across the breadth of fire science disciplines, women are leaders in fire research and development. We want to acknowledge some of these leaders to promote diversity across our disciplines. In Fire, we are also happy to announce a new Special Collection, through which we will continue to acknowledge current and future Diversity Leaders in Fire Science by inviting contributions from the leaders in this editorial, among others.Keywords: leadership; women in science The Need to Recognize Women Leaders in Fire ScienceIn 1965, Alice Rossi asked a fundamental question: "Why so few women in science?" [1]. It has long been recognized that women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) disciplines, with a substantial dialogue in the literature as to the impacts of such underrepresentation. As representation has increased, the debate now focuses on additional questions of equity in leadership, funding, advancement, and mechanisms of support for female scientists. These questions are embedded in three foundational concepts: (1) all scientists, regardless of gender, deserve equal access to opportunities; (2) the smartest and most talented people (regardless of gender) should be conducting scientific research, such that the most critical breakthroughs and contributions are realized; and (3) to understand and solve complex fire science problems, a broad diversity of perspectives, modes of problem attack, and epistemologies are needed [2]. We also acknowledge the need to recognize other underrepresented voices in the fire science community, such as indigenous and racial minorities, individuals with disabilities, and the LGBTQIA community, who all bring different ways of doing and knowing to science.The reader may understandably ask: Why this journal? In fire science, there is a distinct and critical need to increase the recognition of women. Natural hazards research more broadly has widely recognized that women are more vulnerable to natural disasters, and female scientists in other natural hazard disciplines have brought an important perspective to the research that facilitates understanding and reducing such gender disparities. An equivalent gender dialogue does not yet exist in wildfire science but will be necessary to reduce vulnerabilities (e.g., smoke impacts on health, post-traumatic stress disorder following evacuation) and also understand the unique perspectives women have on wildfire as an ecological process. For example, women globally bear much of the childrearing duties; a key fire science question one might ask is whether acceptance of prescribed fire by communities is gendered based on perceptions of impacts to children? The reader may also question the mixed genders of the authors of this editorial. Many proponents of increased recognition of women in science have highlighted that a major part of the problem has been that not enough male allies stand up publicly for their female colleagues, in part because some are embarrassed, fearful, or even feel, and are so...

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Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science

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Kolden

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“…Her notable works include contributions to characterize fire emissions during the Smoke, Clouds, and Radiation Brazil (SCAR-B) experiment [19,163], and research to assess plume rise in vegetation fires [164]. Her recent works include evaluating emissions form Cerrado fires and modeling the impacts of biomass burning aerosol emissions from Amazonian fires [165,166]. Alexandra Syphard is a senior research scientist at the Conservation Biology Institute in Oregon, United States.…”

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Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science: Revisited

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In August, 2018, an editorial in Fire entitled Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science was published. This was intended to ignite a conversation into diversity in fire science by highlighting several women leaders in fire research and development. This editorial was released alongside a new Topical Collection in Fire called Diversity Leaders in Fire Science. The response on social media was fantastic, leading to numerous recommendations of women leaders in fire science that had been inadvertently missed in the first editorial. In this editorial, we acknowledge 145 women leaders in fire science to promote diversity across our disciplines. Fire is continually committed to improving diversity and inclusion in all aspects of the journal and welcomes perspectives, viewpoints, and constructive criticisms to help advance that mission.

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“…Since then, there have been numerous studies on the direct and indirect climatic effects of aerosols (Cai et al, 2016;Forkel et al, 2012;Scott et al, 2014;Takemura et al, 2002;Yahya et al, 2017;Zhang, 2008;Zhang et al, 2010). Most of studies of such effects in South America have focused on the Amazon rainforest, as smoke generated from biomass burning in the region can spread over significant portions of the continent, having a considerable effect on direct and indirect radiative forcing Bevan et al, 2009;Moreira et al, 2017), as well as on human health (Alves et al, 2015(Alves et al, , 2017Pereira et al, 2017).…”

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Modeling of Atmospheric Aerosol Properties in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area: Impact of Biomass Burning

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have been numerous studies on the direct and indirect climatic effects of aerosols [Takemura et al., 2002;Zhang, 2008; Zhang 51 et al., 2010;Forkel et al., 2012; Scott et al., 2014; Cai et al., 2016;Yahya et al., 2017]. Most of studies of such effects in South 52America have focused on the Amazon rainforest, as smoke generated from biomass burning in the region can spread over 53 significant portions of the continent, having a considerable effect on direct and indirect radiative forcing [Bevan et al., 2009; 54 Artaxo et al., 2013; Moreira et al., 2017], as well as on human health [Alves et al., 2015; Alves et al., 2017; et al. [1994a; 1994b]. Nucleation processes are based on mathematical formulations described in Kulmala et al. 112[1998]; condensation processes are based on Binkowski and Shankar [1995] 167Performance statistics were calculated for the period from 19 August to 3 September (the first two days of each simulation 168 were considered spin-up time and were therefore discarded). In addition, spatial distributions of absolute and relative 169 differences between BBE and BASE and between 3BBE and BASE were employed to quantify and characterise the changes in 170 aerosol properties due to the inclusion of fire emissions. In this case, the differences are averaged over a five-day episode from 171 22 August to 26 August, as in this period prevailed meteorological conditions in terms of the transport of air pollutants from 172 fire regions. al., 2015]. To scale the top-down and bottom-up emissions into the 25 km and 5 km modelling domains, mass-conserving 212 emissions pre-processors anthro_emiss [Barth et al., 2015] and AAS4WRF [Vara-Vela et al., 2016;Vara-Vela et al., 2017] 213 were employed, respectively. Supplement Fig. S1 shows spatial distributions of CO emission rates in both domains. Table S1. Information on precipitation and AOD derived from satellite data were 306 considered in addition to in situ and lidar measurements throughout the evaluation of numerical simulations. Table 3 307 summarises the observational data sets used for model evaluation.308

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Modeling the radiative effects of biomass burning aerosols on carbon fluxes in the Amazon region

Cited by 36 publications

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Modeling of Atmospheric Aerosol Properties in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area: Impact of Biomass Burning

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