A New Picture of Fire Extent, Variability, and Drought Interaction in Prescribed Fire Landscapes : Insights From Florida Government Records
Florida, United States, government records provide a new resource for studying fire in landscapes managed with prescribed fire. In Florida, most fire area (92%) is prescribed. Current satellite fire products, which underpin most air pollution emission inventories, detect only 25% of burned area, whi...
| Publié dans: | Geophysical research letters. - 1984. - 45(2018), 15 vom: 16. Aug., Seite 7874-7884 |
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| Format: | Article en ligne |
| Langue: | English |
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2018
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| Accès à la collection: | Geophysical research letters |
| Sujets: | Journal Article biomass burning climate prescribed fire remote sensing wildfire |
| Résumé: | Florida, United States, government records provide a new resource for studying fire in landscapes managed with prescribed fire. In Florida, most fire area (92%) is prescribed. Current satellite fire products, which underpin most air pollution emission inventories, detect only 25% of burned area, which alters airborne emissions and environmental impacts. Moreover, these satellite products can misdiagnose spatiotemporal variability of fires. Overall fire area in Florida decreases during drought conditions as prescribed fires are avoided, but satellite data do not reflect this pattern. This pattern is consistent with prescribed fire successfully reducing overall fire risk and damages. Human management of prescribed fires and fuels can, therefore, break the conventional link between drought and wildfire and play an important role in mitigating rising fire risk in a changing climate. These results likely apply in other regions of the world with similar fire regimes |
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| Description: | Date Revised 11.10.2023 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 0094-8276 |
| DOI: | 10.1029/2018GL078679 |