Long-term trends and interannual variability of forest, savanna and agricultural fires in South America

Carbon Management

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 617-638

  Chen, Yang ^a   Morton, Douglas C ^b   Jin, Yufang ^a   Gollatz, G James ^b   Kasibhatla, Prasad S ^c   Van Der Werf, Guido R ^d   Defries, Ruth S ^e   Randerson, James T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FIRES; BRAZILIAN AMAZON; CARBON EMISSIONS; CLIMATE EXTREMES; EVERGREEN FORESTS; FOREST DEGRADATION; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

AIR QUALITY; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS;

FIRES;

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATES; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST FIRES; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84890343926     PISSN: 17583004     EISSN: 17583012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/cmt.13.61     Document Type: Article

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