Forest understory fire in the Brazilian Amazon in ENSO and non-ENSO years: Area burned and committed carbon emissions

Earth Interactions

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1-17

  Alencar, Ane ^a   Nepstad, Daniel ^a,b   Del Carmen Vera Diaz, Maria ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA AMBIENTAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon emissions; ENSO; Understory fires

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CARBON; CLIMATOLOGY; DEFORESTATION; DROUGHT; FIRE HAZARDS; RAIN;

ABOVEGROUND TREE BIOMASS; CARBON EMISSIONS; ENSO; FOREST UNDERSTORY; INITIAL ESTIMATE; SATELLITE IMAGES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPATIAL FUNCTIONS;

FIRES;

EID: 77955976700     PISSN: 10873562     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/EI150.1     Document Type: Article

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