Land management: data availability and process understanding for global change studies

KH Erb, S Luyssaert, P Meyfroidt… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In the light of daunting global sustainability challenges such as climate change, biodiversity
loss and food security, improving our understanding of the complex dynamics of the Earth …

[HTML][HTML] Non-accidental health impacts of wildfire smoke

H Youssouf, C Liousse, L Roblou, EM Assamoi… - International journal of …, 2014 - mdpi.com
Wildfires take a heavy toll on human health worldwide. Climate change may increase the
risk of wildfire frequency. Therefore, in view of adapted preventive actions, there is an urgent …

Global fire emissions estimates during 1997–2016

GR Van Der Werf, JT Randerson… - Earth System …, 2017 - essd.copernicus.org
Climate, land use, and other anthropogenic and natural drivers have the potential to
influence fire dynamics in many regions. To develop a mechanistic understanding of the …

Analysis of daily, monthly, and annual burned area using the fourth‐generation global fire emissions database (GFED4)

L Giglio, JT Randerson… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We describe the fourth generation of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED4) burned
area data set, which provides global monthly burned area at 0.25° spatial resolution from …

[HTML][HTML] Six global biomass burning emission datasets: intercomparison and application in one global aerosol model

X Pan, C Ichoku, M Chin, H Bian… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Aerosols from biomass burning (BB) emissions are poorly constrained in global and
regional models, resulting in a high level of uncertainty in understanding their impacts. In …

Quantifying the light-absorption properties and molecular composition of brown carbon aerosol from Sub-Saharan African biomass combustion

V Moschos, C Christensen, M Mouton… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Sub-Saharan Africa is a hotspot for biomass burning (BB)-derived carbonaceous aerosols,
including light-absorbing organic (brown) carbon (BrC). However, the chemically complex …

Health impacts of wildfire-related air pollution in Brazil: a nationwide study of more than 2 million hospital admissions between 2008 and 2018

WJ Requia, H Amini, R Mukherjee, DR Gold… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
We quantified the impacts of wildfire-related PM2. 5 on 2 million hospital admissions records
due to cardiorespiratory diseases in Brazil between 2008 and 2018. The national analysis …

The impact of wildfires on air pollution and health across land use categories in Brazil over a 16-year period

I Cobelo, FJ Castelhano, R Borge, HL Roig… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Forest fires cause many environmental impacts, including air pollution. Brazil is a very fire-
prone region where few studies have investigated the impact of wildfires on air quality and …

Exploiting simultaneous observational constraints on mass and absorption to estimate the global direct radiative forcing of black carbon and brown carbon

X Wang, CL Heald, DA Ridley… - Atmospheric …, 2014 - acp.copernicus.org
Atmospheric black carbon (BC) is a leading climate warming agent, yet uncertainties on the
global direct radiative forcing (DRF) remain large. Here we expand a global model …

A full greenhouse gases budget of Africa: synthesis, uncertainties, and vulnerabilities

R Valentini, A Arneth, A Bombelli, S Castaldi… - …, 2014 - bg.copernicus.org
This paper, developed under the framework of the RECCAP initiative, aims at providing
improved estimates of the carbon and GHG (CO 2, CH 4 and N 2 O) balance of continental …