Quantifying burned area for North American forests: Implications for direct reduction of carbon stocks

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Kasischke, Eric S ^a   Loboda, Tatiana ^a   Giglio, Louis ^a   French, Nancy H F ^b   Hoy, E E ^a   De Jong, Bernardus ^c   Riano, David ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CSIC Instituto de Economia Geografia y Demografia IEGD   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMASS; BIOMASS BURNING; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DATA SET; EMISSION CONTROL; FEDERAL SYSTEM; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; LAND MANAGEMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ALASKA; CANADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053580421     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JG001707     Document Type: Article

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