Articles | Volume 23, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-5467-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-5467-2023
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16 May 2023
Research article |  | 16 May 2023

Impact of solar geoengineering on wildfires in the 21st century in CESM2/WACCM6

Wenfu Tang, Simone Tilmes, David M. Lawrence, Fang Li, Cenlin He, Louisa K. Emmons, Rebecca R. Buchholz, and Lili Xia

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Global Fire Emissions Database J. T. Randerson, G. R. van der Werf, L. Giglio, G. J. Collatz, and P. S. Kasibhatla https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1293

Fire Inventory from NCAR version 2 Fire Emission C. Wiedinmyer and L. Emmons https://doi.org/10.5065/XNPA-AF09

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Globally, total wildfire burned area is projected to increase over the 21st century under scenarios without geoengineering and decrease under the two geoengineering scenarios. Geoengineering reduces fire by decreasing surface temperature and wind speed and increasing relative humidity and soil water. However, geoengineering also yields reductions in precipitation, which offset some of the fire reduction.
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