Continental-Scale Partitioning of Fire Emissions during the 1997 to 2001 El Niño/La Niña Period

Science

Volumn 303, Issue 5654, 2004, Pages 73-76

  Van Der Werf, Guido R ^a   Randerson, James T ^b,e   Collatz, G James ^a   Giglio, Louis ^a   Kasibhatla, Prasad S ^c   Arellano Jr , Avelino F ^c   Olsen, Seth C ^b   Kasischke, Eric S ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOCHEMISTRY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT;

FIRE EMISSIONS;

FIRES;

CARBON DIOXIDE; METHANE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DROUGHT; EL NINO; EMISSION; FIRE; GREENHOUSE GAS; LA NINA;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; DROUGHT; EL NINO; EUROPE; FIRE ECOLOGY; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GREENHOUSE GAS; MODEL; NORTH AMERICA; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 0347988234     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1090753     Document Type: Article

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