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Research article
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20 Mar 2015
Research article |
| 20 Mar 2015
Pyrogenic carbon from tropical savanna burning: production and stable isotope composition
College of Science, Technology and Engineering and Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, James Cook University, P.O.Box 6811, Cairns, Queensland, 4870, Australia
now at: Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
J. G. Wynn
School of Geosciences, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Ave, NES107, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA
C. M. Wurster
College of Science, Technology and Engineering and Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, James Cook University, P.O.Box 6811, Cairns, Queensland, 4870, Australia
I. Goodrick
College of Science, Technology and Engineering and Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, James Cook University, P.O.Box 6811, Cairns, Queensland, 4870, Australia
P. N. Nelson
College of Science, Technology and Engineering and Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, James Cook University, P.O.Box 6811, Cairns, Queensland, 4870, Australia
M. I. Bird
College of Science, Technology and Engineering and Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, James Cook University, P.O.Box 6811, Cairns, Queensland, 4870, Australia
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Around half of all pyrogenic carbon (charcoal+soot) derived from wildfires comes from semi-annual burning of tropical savannas. This pyrogenic carbon is significant because it is a component of global aerosols capable of modulating the greenhouse effect and is resistant to degradation. We use controlled field burns in northern Australian savannas to determine how much pyrogenic carbon is formed, how much of this is recalcitrant and how it is partitioned between ground residues and airborne soot.
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