Biomass Burning and Its Inter-Relationships with the Climate System

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Biomass Burning and Climate: An Introduction

   • John L. Innes

   Pages 1-13

3. Global Biomass Burning: A Case Study of the Gaseous and Particulate Emissions Released to the Atmosphere During the 1997 Fires in Kalimantan and Sumatra, Indonesia

   • Joel S. Levine

   Pages 15-31

4. Modelling the Effect of Landuse Changes on Global Biomass Emissions

   • Sue A. Ferguson, David V. Sandberg, Roger Ottmar

   Pages 33-50

5. Direct Effects of Fire on the Boreal Forest Carbon Budget

   • Eric S. Kasischke, Brian J. Stocks, Kathy O’Neill, Nancy H. F. French, Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez

   Pages 51-68

6. The Impact of Biomass Burning on the Global Budget of Ozone and Ozone Precursors

   • Claire Granier, Jean-François Müller, Guy Brasseur

   Pages 69-85

7. Impact of the 1997 Indonesian Fires on Tropospheric Ozone and its Precursors

   • D. A. Hauglustaine, G. P. Brasseur, J. S. Levine

   Pages 87-99

8. The Relationship Between Area Burned by Wildland Fire in Canada and Circulation Anomalies in the Mid-Troposphere

   • W. R. Skinner, B. J. Stocks, D. L. Martell, B. Bonsal, A. Shabbar

   Pages 101-125

9. Underestimation of GCM-Calculated Short-Wave Atmospheric Absorption in Areas Affected by Biomass burning

   • Martin Wild

   Pages 127-149

10. Wildland Fire Detection from Space: Theory and Application

    • Donald R. Cahoon Jr., Brian J. Stocks, Martin E. Alexander, Bryan A. Baum, Johann G. Goldammer

    Pages 151-169

11. Climate and Vegetation as Driving Factors in Global Fire Activity

    • Edward Dwyer, Jean-Marie Grégoire, José M. C. Pereira

    Pages 171-191

12. Modelling the Impact of Vegetation Fires, Detected from NOAA-AVHRR Data, on Tropospheric Chemistry in Tropical Africa

    • Daniela Stroppiana, Pietro Alessandro Brivio, Jean-Mare Grégoire

    Pages 193-213

13. A Rule-Based System for Burned Area Mapping in Temperate and Tropical Regions Using NOAA/AVHRR Imagery

    • José M. C. Pereira, Maria J. P. Vasconcelos, Adélia M. Sousa

    Pages 215-232

14. Fire Regime Sensitivity to Global Climate Change: An Australian Perspective

    • Geoffrey J. Cary, John C. G. Banks

    Pages 233-246

15. The Interaction Between Forest Fires and Human Activity in Southern Switzerland

    • Marco Conedera, Willy Tinner

    Pages 247-261

16. Indirect and Long-Term Effects of Fire on the Boreal Forest Carbon Budget

    • Eric S. Kasischke, Kathy O’Neill, Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez, Nancy H. F. French

    Pages 263-280

17. Sustainable Forestry as a Source of Bio-energy for Fossil Fuel Substitution

    • Murari Lal, Roma Singh

    Pages 281-298

18. Managing Smoke in United States Wildlands and Forests: A Challenge for Science and Regulations

    • Douglas G. Fox, Allen R. Riebau, Richard W. Fisher

    Pages 299-319

19. Area Burned Reconstruction and Measurement: A Comparison of Methods

    • Chris Larsen

    Pages 321-339

20. Interactions Between Biomass Burning and Climate: Conclusions Drawn from the Workshop

    • John L. Innes, Martin Beniston, Michel Verstraete

    Pages 341-346

JOHN L. INNES University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada The interactions between biomass burning and climate have been brought into focus by a number of recent events. Firstly, the Framework Convention on Climate Change and, more recently, the Kyoto Protocol, have drawn the attention of policy makers and others to the importance of biomass burning in relation to atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Secondly, the use of prescribed fires has become a major management tool in some countries; with for example the area with fuel treatments (which include prescribed burns and mechanical treatments) having increased on US National Forest System lands from 123,000 ha in 1985 to 677,000 ha in 1998. Thirdly, large numbers of forest fires in Indonesia, Brazil, Australia and elsewhere in 1997 and 1998 received unprecedented media attention. Consequently, it is appropriate that one of the Wengen Workshops on Global Change Research be devoted to the relationships between biomass burning and climate. This volume includes many of the papers presented at the workshop, but is also intended to act as a contribution to the state of knowledge on the int- relationships between biomass burning and climate change. Previous volumes on biomass burning (e. g. Goldammer 1990,Levine 1991a, Crutzen and Goldammer 1993, Levine 1996a, 1996b, Van Wilgen et al. 1997) have stressed various aspects of the biomass–climate issue, and provide a history of the development of our understanding of the many complex relationships that are involved.

• Absorption
• Aerosol
• Greenhouse gas
• Troposphere
• climate change
• vegetation

• University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  John L. Innes

• University of Fribourg, Switzerland

  Martin Beniston

• Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy

  Michel M. Verstraete

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