Global biomass burning - Atmospheric, climatic, and biospheric implications
- NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA (USA)
Topics discussed at the March 1990 American Geophysical Union's Conference on biomass burning which was attended by more than 175 participants representing 19 countries are presented. Conference highlights include discussion of remote sensing data concerning biomass burning (BB), gaseous and particle emissions resulting from BB in the tropics, BB in temperate and boreal ecosystems, the historic and prehistoric perspectives on BB, BB and global budgets for carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, and the BB and the greenhouse effect. Global estimates of annual amounts of biomass burning and of the resulting release of carbon to the atmosphere and the mean gaseous emission ratios for fires in wetlands, chaparral, and boreal ecosystems are given. An overview is presented of some conference discussions including global burning from 1850-1980, the global impact of biomass burning, the great Chinese/Soviet fire of 1987, and burning and biogenic emissions.
- OSTI ID:
- 6027207
- Journal Information:
- EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union; (USA), Vol. 71; ISSN 0096-3941
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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BIOMASS
COMBUSTION
GREENHOUSE EFFECT
PARTICULATES
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
AEROSOLS
ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY
BOREAL REGIONS
CARBON
CARBON CYCLE
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
CLIMATES
DEFORESTATION
FIRES
OZONE
REMOTE SENSING
TEMPERATE ZONES
TROPICAL REGIONS
WETLANDS
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CHEMISTRY
COLLOIDS
DISPERSIONS
ECOSYSTEMS
ELEMENTS
ENERGY SOURCES
NONMETALS
OXIDATION
PARTICLES
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
SOLS
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
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