[HTML][HTML] State of wildfires 2023–2024

MW Jones, DI Kelley, CA Burton… - Earth System …, 2024 - essd.copernicus.org
Climate change contributes to the increased frequency and intensity of wildfires globally,
with significant impacts on society and the environment. However, our understanding of the …

Reviews & syntheses: arctic fire regimes and emissions in the 21st century

JL McCarty, J Aalto, VV Paunu, SR Arnold… - Biogeosciences …, 2021 - bg.copernicus.org
In recent years, the pan-Arctic region has experienced increasingly extreme fire seasons.
Fires in the northern high latitudes are driven by current and future climate change, lightning …

Increasing forest fire emissions despite the decline in global burned area

B Zheng, P Ciais, F Chevallier, E Chuvieco, Y Chen… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Satellites have detected a global decline in burned area of grassland, coincident with a
small increase in burned forest area. These contrasting trends have been reported in earlier …

Carbon emissions from the 2023 Canadian wildfires

B Byrne, J Liu, KW Bowman, M Pascolini-Campbell… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The 2023 Canadian forest fires have been extreme in scale and intensity with more than
seven times the average annual area burned compared to the previous four decades. Here …

Vast CO2 release from Australian fires in 2019–2020 constrained by satellite

IR van der Velde, GR van der Werf, S Houweling… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Southeast Australia experienced intensive and geographically extensive wildfires during the
2019–2020 summer season,. The fires released substantial amounts of carbon dioxide into …

Multi-decadal trends and variability in burned area from the 5th version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5)

Y Chen, J Hall, D Van Wees, N Andela… - Earth System …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
Long-term records of burned area are needed to understand wildfire dynamics, assess fire
impacts on ecosystems and air quality, and improve fire forecasts. Here we fuse multiple …

Emissions of trace organic gases from Western US wildfires based on WE‐CAN aircraft measurements

W Permar, Q Wang, V Selimovic… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We present emission measurements of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) for western US
wildland fires made on the NSF/NCAR C‐130 research aircraft during the Western Wildfire …

Historical (1850–2014) aerosol evolution and role on climate forcing using the GISS ModelE2. 1 contribution to CMIP6

SE Bauer, K Tsigaridis, G Faluvegi… - Journal of Advances …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The Earth's climate is rapidly changing. Over the past centuries, aerosols, via their ability to
absorb or scatter solar radiation and alter clouds, played an important role in …

New seasonal pattern of pollution emerges from changing North American wildfires

RR Buchholz, M Park, HM Worden, W Tang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Rising emissions from wildfires over recent decades in the Pacific Northwest are known to
counteract the reductions in human-produced aerosol pollution over North America. Since …

Widespread biomass burning smoke throughout the remote troposphere

GP Schill, KD Froyd, H Bian, A Kupc, C Williamson… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Biomass burning emits~ 34–41 Tg yr− 1 of smoke aerosol to the atmosphere.
Biomass burning aerosol directly influences the Earth's climate by attenuation of solar and …