TY - JOUR
T1 - Spatio-temporal evaluation of carbon emissions from biomass burning in Southeast Asia during the period 2001-2010
AU - Shi, Yusheng
AU - Sasai, Takahiro
AU - Yamaguchi, Yasushi
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund ( RFa-1201 ) of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan and JAXA GCOM-C project under contract 102: “Development of integrative information of the terrestrial ecosystem”. Shortwave radiation dataset was produced by JAXA/EORC.
PY - 2014/1/24
Y1 - 2014/1/24
N2 - Carbon emissions (CE) from fire-induced biomass burning have a marked effect on interannual fluctuations in global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Biomass burning in Southeast Asia (SEA) is a dominant contributor toward these emissions, primarily through the effects of El Niño-induced droughts and deforestation. Nonetheless, our understanding of the spatiotemporal patterns and variability in fire CE of SEA is limited. In this study, fire CE in SEA were estimated at a spatial resolution of 5km during 2001-2010 using the recently developed MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) burned area products and the Biosphere model integrating Eco-physiological And Mechanistic approaches using Satellite data (BEAMS) with fire CE embedded. Three series of burned area data from MCD64A1, MCD45A1 and Global Fire Emissions Database version 3 (GFED3) in SEA were employed to estimate fire CE. In general, the three burned area datasets showed consistent temporal variation from 2001 to 2010 with average annual burned areas measuring 68,104, 50,933 and 61,263km2year-1, respectively. Burned areas were predominantly concentrated in Myanmar, northern Thailand, eastern Cambodia, and northern Laos, with marked differences in Sumatra and Kalimantan of Indonesia where peatland is extensively distributed. Fire CE estimated in the three simulations (BEAMS/MCD64A1, BEAMS/MCD45A1-Peat and BEAMS/GFED) exhibited similar spatial patterns with respect to burned area, with average annual fire CE of 232.6, 214.1 and 228.8 TgC, respectively, of which, in our current study the best result among the three estimations was BEAMS/MCD45A1-Peat, which was close to that obtained by GFED3 with 210.7 TgC. Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) values showed good consistency with both fire CE and Multivariate ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) Index values during 2001-2010, likely because of the deep peat soil burning under the influence of the El Niño phenomenon and Indian Ocean Dipole pattern in combination with anthropogenic disturbance through deforestation for palm oil plantation production.
AB - Carbon emissions (CE) from fire-induced biomass burning have a marked effect on interannual fluctuations in global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Biomass burning in Southeast Asia (SEA) is a dominant contributor toward these emissions, primarily through the effects of El Niño-induced droughts and deforestation. Nonetheless, our understanding of the spatiotemporal patterns and variability in fire CE of SEA is limited. In this study, fire CE in SEA were estimated at a spatial resolution of 5km during 2001-2010 using the recently developed MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) burned area products and the Biosphere model integrating Eco-physiological And Mechanistic approaches using Satellite data (BEAMS) with fire CE embedded. Three series of burned area data from MCD64A1, MCD45A1 and Global Fire Emissions Database version 3 (GFED3) in SEA were employed to estimate fire CE. In general, the three burned area datasets showed consistent temporal variation from 2001 to 2010 with average annual burned areas measuring 68,104, 50,933 and 61,263km2year-1, respectively. Burned areas were predominantly concentrated in Myanmar, northern Thailand, eastern Cambodia, and northern Laos, with marked differences in Sumatra and Kalimantan of Indonesia where peatland is extensively distributed. Fire CE estimated in the three simulations (BEAMS/MCD64A1, BEAMS/MCD45A1-Peat and BEAMS/GFED) exhibited similar spatial patterns with respect to burned area, with average annual fire CE of 232.6, 214.1 and 228.8 TgC, respectively, of which, in our current study the best result among the three estimations was BEAMS/MCD45A1-Peat, which was close to that obtained by GFED3 with 210.7 TgC. Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) values showed good consistency with both fire CE and Multivariate ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) Index values during 2001-2010, likely because of the deep peat soil burning under the influence of the El Niño phenomenon and Indian Ocean Dipole pattern in combination with anthropogenic disturbance through deforestation for palm oil plantation production.
KW - Burned area
KW - Finer resolution
KW - Fire carbon emissions
KW - Peatland
KW - Southeast Asia
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.09.021
DO - 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.09.021
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84886544262
VL - 272
SP - 98
EP - 115
JO - Ecological Modelling
JF - Ecological Modelling
SN - 0304-3800
ER -