Oral Programme BG4.1/AS4.7

Fire in the Earth System
Convener: A. Spessa 
Co-Convener: O. Wild 

Session Details

Poster Programme

Wednesday, 22 Apr 2009 Room: 21 Chairperson: Dr Allan Spessa
13:30–14:00	EGU2009-669 Can current models reproduce the increase in Western United States Wildfires and project a reliable future trend? (solicited) D. Bachelet, D. Conklin, J. Lenihan, R. Neilson, M. McGlinchy, B. Rogers, and R. Drapek
14:00–14:15	EGU2009-6544 Simulation of Burn Probabilities and Fire Size Distributions for the Western United States M. Finney
14:15–14:30	EGU2009-13243 Modeling boreal fire and forest dynamics W.J. de Groot, D.J. McRae, and A. Cantin
14:30–14:45	EGU2009-13291 Modelling of the decrease of tropical-forest resilience in Amazonia as affected by deforestation and fires M. Cardoso, C. Nobre, G. Sampaio, M. Hirota, D. Valeriano, and G. Câmara
14:45–15:00	EGU2009-10068 A vicious circle of fire, deforestation and climate change: an integrative study for the Amazon region K. Thonicke, A. Rammig, M. Gumpenberger, K. Vohland, B. Poulter, and W. Cramer
COFFEE BREAK
Chairperson: Dr Oliver Wild
15:30–15:45	EGU2009-6641 Fire in Australian Savannas: from leaf to landscape J. Beringer, L. B. Hutley, N. J. Tapper, L. A. Cernusak, A. H. Lynch, K. Görgen, D. Abramson, and P. Uotila
15:45–16:00	EGU2009-6439 Using burned area data to explore fire spread in coupled fire and ecosystem models J L Gomez-Dans, P Lewis, M Wooster, and A Spessa
16:00–16:30	EGU2009-664 Characterization of fire plume heights over North America: Merging MISR and MODIS data into modeling (solicited) M. Val Martin, J. Logan, S. Freitas, D. Nelson, C. Ichoku, R. Kahn, D. Diner, and F.-Y. Leung
16:30–16:45	EGU2009-10049 Did the summer 2003 forest fires in Portugal affect air quality over Europe? AI Miranda, V Martins, E Sá, A Carvalho, JH Amorim, and C Borrego
16:45–17:00	EGU2009-2082 Biomass Burning:Significant Source of Nitrate and Sulfate for the Andean Rain Forest in Ecuador P. Fabian, R. Rollenbeck, and N. Spichtinger