The amount of carbon released from peat and forest fires in Indonesia during 1997

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6911, 2002, Pages 61-65

  Page, Susan E ^a   Siegert, Florian ^b,c,d   Rieley, John O ^f   Boehm, Hans Dieter V ^d   Jaya, Adi ^g   Limin, Suwido ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c REMOTE SENSING SOLUTIONS GMBH   (Germany)

^d Kalteng Consultants   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PALANGKA RAYA   (Indonesia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^g NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMBUSTION; EXTRAPOLATION; FIRES; FORESTRY; FOSSIL FUELS; PEAT; VEGETATION;

CARBON EMISSIONS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; PEAT;

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST FIRE; PEAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; COMBUSTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FIRE; FOREST; INDONESIA; LAND DRAINAGE; PEATLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEGETATION;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; FIRES; INDONESIA; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SOIL; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

INDONESIA;

EID: 0037038393     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01131     Document Type: Article

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