901: Fire in the Earth system

Principal investigator: Silvia Kloster

Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie (Community project)

Project abstract

Report 1/2015 to 12/2015
Report 1/2016 to 12/2016
Final report

Publications

• Lasslop, G., Moeller, T., D'Onofrio, D., Hantson, S. and Kloster, S.: Tropical climate-vegetation-fire relationships: multivariate evaluation of the land surface model JSBACH, 2018, in review, https://www.biogeosciences-discuss.net/bg-2018-48/ Wilkenskjeld, S., Kloster, S. and Georgievski, G.: Assessing Carbon Emissions from Wildfires using observed data from ESA-CCI-Fire and the JSBACH vegetation model. In preparation for Biogeosciences.
• Lasslop, G., Brovkin, V., Reick, C., Bathiany, S. & Kloster, S. (2016). Multiple stable states of tree cover in a global land surface model due to a fire-vegetation feedback. Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 6324-6331 , doi:10.1002/2016GL069365. Lasslop, G., Brovkin, V., Reick, C., Bathiany, S. & Kloster, S. (2016b). Multiple stable states of tree cover due to a fire - vegetation feedback, AGU abstract, oral presentation, https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/171285
• Veira, A., Kloster, S., Wilkenskjeld, S., & Remy, S. (2015). Fire emission heights in the climate system - Part 1: Global plume height patterns simulated by ECHAM6-HAM2. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 15, 7155-7171.
• Veira, A., Kloster, S., Schutgens, N., & Kaiser, J. W. (2015). Fire emission heights in the climate system - Part 2: Impact on transport, black carbon concentrations and radiation. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 15, 7173-7193.
• Veira, A., Lasslop, G., Kloster, S. (submitted). Wildfires in a warmer climate: Emission fluxes, emission heights and black carbon concentrations in 2090–2099, JGR, under revision.