Reconstructions of biomass burning from sediment-charcoal records to improve  data–model comparisons

Marlon, Jennifer R.; Kelly, Ryan; Daniau, Anne-Laure; Vannière, Boris; Power, Mitchell J.; Bartlein, Patrick; Higuera, Philip; Blarquez, Olivier; Brewer, Simon; Brücher, Tim; Feurdean, Angelica; Romera, Graciela Gil; Iglesias, Virginia; Maezumi, S. Yoshi; Magi, Brian; Courtney Mustaphi, Colin J.; Zhihai, Tonishtan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3225-2016

Articles | Volume 13, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3225-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3225-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 11

Research article

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03 Jun 2016

Research article |

| 03 Jun 2016

Reconstructions of biomass burning from sediment-charcoal records to improve data–model comparisons

Jennifer R. Marlon, Ryan Kelly, Anne-Laure Daniau, Boris Vannière, Mitchell J. Power, Patrick Bartlein, Philip Higuera, Olivier Blarquez, Simon Brewer, Tim Brücher, Angelica Feurdean, Graciela Gil Romera, Virginia Iglesias, S. Yoshi Maezumi, Brian Magi, Colin J. Courtney Mustaphi, and Tonishtan Zhihai

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RC C9102: 'accept with some minor additional explanations...', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Jan 2016
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RC C9956: 'Comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Feb 2016
- AC C10325: 'Response to Reviewer #2', J.R. Marlon, 24 Mar 2016

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (04 Apr 2016) by Akihiko Ito

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (02 May 2016) by Akihiko Ito

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We reconstruct spatiotemporal variations in biomass burning since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) using the Global Charcoal Database version 3 (including 736 records) and a method to grid the data. LGM to late Holocene burning broadly tracks global and regional climate changes over that interval. Human activities increase fire in the 1800s and then reduce it for most of the 20th century. Burning is now rapidly increasing, particularly in western North America and southeastern Australia.