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van der Werf GR, Randerson JT, Collatz GJ, et al. Continental-scale partitioning of fire emissions during the 1997 to 2001 El Niño/La Niña period. Science. 2004;303(5654):73-6doi: 10.1126/science.1090753.
van der Werf, G. R., Randerson, J. T., Collatz, G. J., Giglio, L., Kasibhatla, P. S., Arellano, A. F., Olsen, S. C., & Kasischke, E. S. (2004). Continental-scale partitioning of fire emissions during the 1997 to 2001 El Niño/La Niña period. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5654), 73-6. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1090753
van der Werf, Guido R, et al. "Continental-scale partitioning of fire emissions during the 1997 to 2001 El Niño/La Niña period." Science (New York, N.Y.) vol. 303,5654 (2004): 73-6. doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1090753
van der Werf GR, Randerson JT, Collatz GJ, Giglio L, Kasibhatla PS, Arellano AF, Olsen SC, Kasischke ES. Continental-scale partitioning of fire emissions during the 1997 to 2001 El Niño/La Niña period. Science. 2004 Jan 02;303(5654):73-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1090753. PMID: 14704424.
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Science. 2004 Jan 02;303(5654):73-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1090753.

Continental-scale partitioning of fire emissions during the 1997 to 2001 El Niño/La Niña period.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Guido R van der Werf, James T Randerson, G James Collatz, Louis Giglio, Prasad S Kasibhatla, Avelino F Arellano, Seth C Olsen, Eric S Kasischke

Affiliations

  1. U.S. Department of Agriculture-Foreign Agricultural Service, National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA-GSFC), Code 923, Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA. [email protected]

PMID: 14704424 DOI: 10.1126/science.1090753

Abstract

During the 1997 to 1998 El Niño, drought conditions triggered widespread increases in fire activity, releasing CH4 and CO2 to the atmosphere. We evaluated the contribution of fires from different continents to variability in these greenhouse gases from 1997 to 2001, using satellite-based estimates of fire activity, biogeochemical modeling, and an inverse analysis of atmospheric CO anomalies. During the 1997 to 1998 El Niño, the fire emissions anomaly was 2.1 +/- 0.8 petagrams of carbon, or 66 +/- 24% of the CO2 growth rate anomaly. The main contributors were Southeast Asia (60%), Central and South America (30%), and boreal regions of Eurasia and North America (10%).

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