Using CESM-RESFire to understand climate–fire–ecosystem interactions and the implications for decadal climate variability

Zou, Yufei; Wang, Yuhang; Qian, Yun; Tian, Hanqin; Yang, Jia; Alvarado, Ernesto

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-995-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-995-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-995-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 2

Research article

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27 Jan 2020

Research article |

| 27 Jan 2020

Using CESM-RESFire to understand climate–fire–ecosystem interactions and the implications for decadal climate variability

Yufei Zou, Yuhang Wang, Yun Qian, Hanqin Tian, Jia Yang, and Ernesto Alvarado

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-995-2020-supplement

Data sets

CESM-RESFire fire simulation results Y. Zou https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9765356

MODIS Atmosphere L3 Monthly Product S. Platnick, P. Hubanks, K. Meyer, and M. D. King https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MYD08_M3.061

AERONET - A federated instrument network and data archive for aerosol characterization (https://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/) B. N. Holben, T. F. Eck, I. Slutsker, D. Tanre, J. P. Buis, A. Setzer, E. Vermote, J. A. Reagan, Y. J. Kaufman, T. Nakajima, F. Lavenu, I. Jankowiak, and A. Smirnov https://doi.org/10.1016/S0034-4257(98)00031-5

Analysis of daily, monthly, and annual burned area using the fourth-generation global fire emissions database (GFED4) (https://www.geo.vu.nl/~gwerf/GFED/GFED4/) L. Giglio, J. T. Randerson, and G. R. van der Werf https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrg.20042

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Fire is a natural phenomenon that has a long history of interactions with the environment and human activity. The complex interactions were less represented in previous fire and climate models. Here we use a new global fire model with improved modeling capability to study how fire responds and contributes to climate change. The modeling results show increased global fire activity in the future driven by climate change, which in turn modulates local and remote climate and ecosystems.