Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: Fire is an important phenomena in Amazonian ecosystems. It is involved in the depletion of the vegetation, deforestation, changes in nutrients and carbon cycling, and release of reactive gases and aerossols into the atmosphere. Thus fite should be included as an important aspect in models of Arnazonian ecosystems. In order to develop and test relevant fire models, data on the pattems and dynatnics of tire must be studied and synthesized. To this end, we analyzed the remote-sensing based dataset from the UW-Madison CEVISS Biomass Burning Monitoring Program for 1995 and 1997. These data, based on the geostationary satellite GOES-8, provide fire occurenee information at four daily deteetion times during the fire season, from. June to October. Results from this analysis summarize important features of the fite dynarnics in Arnazonia, providing information ou frequency, temporal length, and spatial distribution of fites. This information can be related to information on elimate, vegetation, and humans in order to construct and test hypotheses for the observed patt£ms.
Author: Manoel Cardoso
Language: English
Topic: Fire effects on ecosystems
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDGs: Life on land, Climate action
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2802016162