Mountain lakes are often situated in protected natural areas, a feature that leads to their role
as sentinels of global environmental change. Despite variations in latitude, mountain lakes …

Biological invasions into wholly new regions are a consequence of a far reaching but
underappreciated component of global environmental change, the human-caused …

Biomass burning (BB) is the second largest source of trace gases and the largest source of
primary fine carbonaceous particles in the global troposphere. Many recent BB studies have …

This report is the first complete assessment of the science of climate change since Working
Group I (WGI) of the IPCC produced its second report Climate Change 1995: The Science of …

A large body of information on emissions from the various types of biomass burning has
been accumulated over the past decade, to a large extent as a result of International …

Biomass burning is widespread, especially in the tropics. It serves to clear land for shifting
cultivation, to convert forests to agricultural and pastoral lands, and to remove dry vegetation …

A PROPER inventory of atmospheric emissions from natural sources is basic to our
understanding of the atmospheric cycle of the trace metals (and metalloids), and is also …

The sentiment that woodsmoke, being a natural substance, must be benign to humans is still
sometimes heard. It is now well established, however, that wood-burning stoves and …

The Global Fire Assimilation System (GFASv1. 0) calculates biomass burning emissions by
assimilating Fire Radiative Power (FRP) observations from the MODIS instruments onboard …

Tropospheric Aerosol Optical Thickness from the GOCART Model and Comparisons with Satellite
and Sun Photometer Measurements in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 59 Issue 3 …