Biomass Burning And Its Inter-relationships With The Climate (advances In Global Change Research Volume 3)
by Martin Beniston /
1999 / English / PDF
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This volume contains a selection of scientific papers which were
presented at an international workshop held in Wengen, Switzerland,
in September 1998. A number of state-of-the-art papers are
presented, which discuss scientific, technological and
socio-economic issues related to large forest fires which occur
both in the tropics and in the extra-tropical regions. The book
comprises some of the most recent research conducted in the context
of the large forest fires which occurred in South-East Asia,
Australia, Brazil and Africa in late 1997 and early 1998; while
essentially due to human interference, these particular fires
appear to have been enhanced by the particularly strong El Niño
episode which prevailed at that time. This interdisciplinary volume
addresses a number of topics, in particular the contribution to
climatic change by the greenhouse gases and aerosols emitted by
large forest fires, the monitoring of fires both during and after
combustion through satellite remote-sensing techniques, and
numerical studies of the perturbation to the climate system using
general circulation climate models.
This volume contains a selection of scientific papers which were
presented at an international workshop held in Wengen, Switzerland,
in September 1998. A number of state-of-the-art papers are
presented, which discuss scientific, technological and
socio-economic issues related to large forest fires which occur
both in the tropics and in the extra-tropical regions. The book
comprises some of the most recent research conducted in the context
of the large forest fires which occurred in South-East Asia,
Australia, Brazil and Africa in late 1997 and early 1998; while
essentially due to human interference, these particular fires
appear to have been enhanced by the particularly strong El Niño
episode which prevailed at that time. This interdisciplinary volume
addresses a number of topics, in particular the contribution to
climatic change by the greenhouse gases and aerosols emitted by
large forest fires, the monitoring of fires both during and after
combustion through satellite remote-sensing techniques, and
numerical studies of the perturbation to the climate system using
general circulation climate models.