Wildland fire emissions, carbon, and climate: U.S. emissions inventories

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 317, Issue , 2014, Pages 61-69

  Larkin, Narasimhan K ^a   Raffuse, Sean M ^b   Strand, Tara M ^c  

^a Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory   (United States)

^b SONOMA TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^c SCION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Emissions inventories; Fire emissions; Greenhouse gases

Indexed keywords

GREENHOUSE GASES;

EMISSIONS FACTORS; EMISSIONS INVENTORY; ESTIMATION METHODS; FIRE EMISSIONS; PARTICULATE MATTER; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SCALE; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY; WILDLAND FIRE EMISSIONS;

FIRES;

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WILDFIRE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84895930513     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.09.012     Document Type: Article

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