Emissions from prescribed fires in temperate forest in south-east Australia: implications for carbon accounting

Possell, M.; Jenkins, M.; Bell, T. L.; Adams, M. A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-257-2015

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-257-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-257-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

Research article

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15 Jan 2015

Research article |

| 15 Jan 2015

Emissions from prescribed fires in temperate forest in south-east Australia: implications for carbon accounting

M. Possell, M. Jenkins, T. L. Bell, and M. A. Adams

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RC C6091: 'Referee review of mansucript "Emissions from prescribed fire in temperate forest in south-east Australia: implications for carbon accounting"', Anonymous Referee #1, 22 Oct 2014
RC C6455: 'Interactive comment on “Emissions from prescribed fire in temperate forest in south-east Australia: implications for carbon accounting” by M. Possell et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Nov 2014
AC C6876: 'Authors' response to Reviewers' comments on bg-2014-228', Malcolm Possell, 20 Nov 2014

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Emissions from fires are estimated as products of fuel load, burning efficiency, area burnt and emission factors for compounds of interest. Uncertainties in these variables lead to a wide range of estimates. We demonstrate that the probability of estimating true emissions declines strongly as the amount of information available declines. Including coarse woody debris in estimates increased uncertainty in calculations because it was the most variable contributor to fuel load.