AGU Fall Meeting: The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Unedrstanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the land and Atmosphere
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
15-19 December 2014, San Francisco, USA
Proposed Session: “The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land and Atmosphere” (GC077)
Call for abstracts: Session ID#: 2613
Session Description: Anthropogenic and natural fires are an important component of the Earth system. Geographic location, fuel type, seasonality and intensity of fire largely determine the direction and magnitude of feedbacks on the Earth system. The aim of this session is to explore links between fire, climate, humans and vegetation from the local to the global scale and determine how these interactions will change in a warming world. We encourage abstracts that explore the interactions of fires with the terrestrial biosphere and atmosphere using remote sensing, in situ observations, modeling, or an integrated approach with an emphasis on (1) the influence of humans on fire (and vice versa), (2) links between fires and ecosystem biodiversity, and the co-evolution of fire and plants, (3) impacts of fire on climate, meteorology, atmospheric chemistry and air quality, and (4) the changing nature of fire over millennia, and predictions for the future.
Co-Sponsor(s):
A – Atmospheric Sciences
B – Biogeosciences
C – Cryosphere
Index Terms:
0315 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Link to the session via the AGU Abstract Tool: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/webprogrampreliminary/Session2613.html
Deadline for abstract submissions: 6 August 2014 at 23:59 EDT
Primary Convener: Michael G. Tosca Jr., NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Los Angeles, California, United States
Co-conveners: Guido van der Werf, VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Caroline Lehmann, University of Edinburgh, School of GeoScienes, Edinburgh, United Kingdom and Sander Veraverbeke, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Contact:
Mike Tosca, Ph.D.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Dr. MS 233-200
Pasadena, CA 91109
Tel: +1-818-354-6860
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Proposed Session: Biomass Burning Impacts on Composition, Clouds, and Climate: SEAC4RS, BBOP, SAMBBA, BORTAS, FLAME-4, and other Recent Studies
Call for abstracts: Session ID#: 2211
Session Description:
Biomass burning is a large, complex, and widespread source of trace gases and aerosols to the global atmosphere with many far-reaching impacts. Recent field and laboratory campaigns and modeling studies are starting to provide improved understanding of the influence of biomass burning at various temporal and spatial scales. This session invites new biomass-burning related science from this work including the following topics: measurements of emission factors for trace gases and aerosol species; measurements and models of chemical and physical plume evolution and the subsequent impact on composition and radiative forcing; investigations of smoke interactions with clouds or urban and biogenic emissions; analysis using, or evaluation of, smoke remote sensing products; and remote sensing algorithm development for pyrogenic species. Of equal interest is plume to global scale, forward or inverse modeling-based assessments of the air quality and/or climate impacts of biomass burning that include representation of other relevant sources.
Index Terms:
0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0315 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0322 Constituent sources and sinks [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0368 Troposphere: constituent transport and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
Primary Convener:
Robert J Yokelson, Univ Montana, Missoula, MT, United States
Co-conveners:
Arthur J Sedlacek III, Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, NY, United States of America
Hugh Coe, University of Manchester, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental
Sciences, Manchester, M13, United Kingdom
Jack E Dibb, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States of America
Link to the session via the AGU Abstract Tool:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/webprogrampreliminary/Session2211.html
Deadline for abstract submissions:
6 August 2014 at 23:59 EDT
Contact:
Bob Yokelson
Department of Chemistry
University of Montana
Missoula, Montana 59812
U.S.A.
Tel: +1-406-243-6088
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FIREX Side Event
A side event of the proposed FIREX – “Fire Influence on Regional and Global Environments Experiment. The Impact
of Biomass Burning on Climate and Air Quality: An Intensive Study of Western North America Fires” – will be held in
conjuction with AGU 2014. The community is invited to discuss FIREX on Monday 15 December 2014, between 12:30
and 13:30 at the Marriott Courtyard (2 blocks from the Moscone Center at 299 2nd Street):
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/maps/travel/sfocd-courtyard-san-francisco-downtown
Please note that there is now a FIREX website that now has
the white paper posted;
http://esrl.noaa.gov/csd/projects/firex/
Contact:
James M. Roberts, Ph.D.
Research Chemist
NOAA/ESRL Chemical Sciences Division
R/CSD7
325 Broadway
Boulder, Colorado, 80305
Tel: +1-303-497-3982
e-mail: James.M.Roberts@noaa.gov
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