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Fire carbon emissions over maritime southeast Asia in 2015 largest since 1997

In September and October 2015 widespread forest and peatland fires burned over large parts of maritime southeast Asia, most notably Indonesia, releasing large amounts of terrestrially-stored carbon into the atmosphere, primarily in the form of CO(2), CO and CH(4). With a mean emission rate of 11.3 T...

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Autores principales: Huijnen, V., Wooster, M. J., Kaiser, J. W., Gaveau, D. L. A., Flemming, J., Parrington, M., Inness, A., Murdiyarso, D., Main, B., van Weele, M.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4886261/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27241616
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep26886
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author Huijnen, V.
Wooster, M. J.
Kaiser, J. W.
Gaveau, D. L. A.
Flemming, J.
Parrington, M.
Inness, A.
Murdiyarso, D.
Main, B.
van Weele, M.
author_facet Huijnen, V.
Wooster, M. J.
Kaiser, J. W.
Gaveau, D. L. A.
Flemming, J.
Parrington, M.
Inness, A.
Murdiyarso, D.
Main, B.
van Weele, M.
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description In September and October 2015 widespread forest and peatland fires burned over large parts of maritime southeast Asia, most notably Indonesia, releasing large amounts of terrestrially-stored carbon into the atmosphere, primarily in the form of CO(2), CO and CH(4). With a mean emission rate of 11.3 Tg CO(2) per day during Sept-Oct 2015, emissions from these fires exceeded the fossil fuel CO(2) release rate of the European Union (EU28) (8.9 Tg CO(2) per day). Although seasonal fires are a frequent occurrence in the human modified landscapes found in Indonesia, the extent of the 2015 fires was greatly inflated by an extended drought period associated with a strong El Niño. We estimate carbon emissions from the 2015 fires to be the largest seen in maritime southeast Asia since those associated with the record breaking El Niño of 1997. Compared to that event, a much better constrained regional total carbon emission estimate can be made for the 2015 fires through the use of present-day satellite observations of the fire’s radiative power output and atmospheric CO concentrations, processed using the modelling and assimilation framework of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) and combined with unique in situ smoke measurements made on Kalimantan.
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spelling pubmed-48862612016-06-08 Fire carbon emissions over maritime southeast Asia in 2015 largest since 1997 Huijnen, V. Wooster, M. J. Kaiser, J. W. Gaveau, D. L. A. Flemming, J. Parrington, M. Inness, A. Murdiyarso, D. Main, B. van Weele, M. Sci Rep Article In September and October 2015 widespread forest and peatland fires burned over large parts of maritime southeast Asia, most notably Indonesia, releasing large amounts of terrestrially-stored carbon into the atmosphere, primarily in the form of CO(2), CO and CH(4). With a mean emission rate of 11.3 Tg CO(2) per day during Sept-Oct 2015, emissions from these fires exceeded the fossil fuel CO(2) release rate of the European Union (EU28) (8.9 Tg CO(2) per day). Although seasonal fires are a frequent occurrence in the human modified landscapes found in Indonesia, the extent of the 2015 fires was greatly inflated by an extended drought period associated with a strong El Niño. We estimate carbon emissions from the 2015 fires to be the largest seen in maritime southeast Asia since those associated with the record breaking El Niño of 1997. Compared to that event, a much better constrained regional total carbon emission estimate can be made for the 2015 fires through the use of present-day satellite observations of the fire’s radiative power output and atmospheric CO concentrations, processed using the modelling and assimilation framework of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) and combined with unique in situ smoke measurements made on Kalimantan. Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4886261/ /pubmed/27241616 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep26886 Text en Copyright © 2016, Macmillan Publishers Limited http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Murdiyarso, D.
Main, B.
van Weele, M.
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