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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-2785-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-2785-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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14 Jul 2023
Research article |
| 14 Jul 2023
| 14 Jul 2023
Burned area and carbon emissions across northwestern boreal North America from 2001–2019
Stefano Potter
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, MA 02540, USA
Sol Cooperdock
Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, MA 02540, USA
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Sander Veraverbeke
Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1105, the
Netherlands
Xanthe Walker
Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University,
Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA
Michelle C. Mack
Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University,
Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA
Scott J. Goetz
School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona
University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA
Jennifer Baltzer
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5, Canada
Laura Bourgeau-Chavez
Michigan Tech Research Institute, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA
Arden Burrell
Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, MA 02540, USA
Catherine Dieleman
University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
Nancy French
Michigan Tech Research Institute, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA
Stijn Hantson
Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Cundinamarca, 200433, Colombia
Elizabeth E. Hoy
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Global Science & Technology, Inc, Greenbelt, MD 20770, USA
Liza Jenkins
Michigan Tech Research Institute, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA
Jill F. Johnstone
Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks,
Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA
Evan S. Kane
12College of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences, Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA
Susan M. Natali
Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, MA 02540, USA
James T. Randerson
Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Merritt R. Turetsky
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder CO 80309, USA
Ellen Whitman
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry
Centre, Edmonton, AB T6H 3S5, Canada
Elizabeth Wiggins
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23666, USA
Brendan M. Rogers
Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, MA 02540, USA
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- Impacts of wildfires on boreal forest ecosystem carbon dynamics from 1986 to 2020 Y. Xu et al. 10.1088/1748-9326/ad489a
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- INFERNO-peat v1.0.0: a representation of northern high-latitude peat fires in the JULES-INFERNO global fire model K. Blackford et al. 10.5194/gmd-17-3063-2024
- Substantial Mercury Releases and Local Deposition from Permafrost Peatland Wildfires in Southwestern Alaska S. Zolkos et al. 10.1021/acs.est.4c08765
- Multidecadal mapping of status and trends in annual burn probability over Canada’s forested ecosystems C. Mulverhill et al. 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2024.02.006
- Forest fire size amplifies postfire land surface warming J. Zhao et al. 10.1038/s41586-024-07918-8
- First estimation and evaluation of hourly biomass burning emissions in north American high latitudes F. Li et al. 10.1016/j.rse.2025.114814
- Annual and Seasonal Patterns of Burned Area Products in Arctic-Boreal North America and Russia for 2001–2020 A. Clelland et al. 10.3390/rs16173306
- Enhanced CH4 emissions from global wildfires likely due to undetected small fires J. Zhao et al. 10.1038/s41467-025-56218-w
- Landsat-based fire maps reveal higher fire emissions from larger area of low-severity burnings than coarse resolution data in Southeast Asia M. Xiahou & Z. Shen 10.1016/j.jag.2025.104815
- Macro- and micronutrient release from ash and litter in permafrost-affected forest D. Kuzmina et al. 10.1016/j.geoderma.2024.116925
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Short summary
Here we developed a new burned-area detection algorithm between 2001–2019 across Alaska and Canada at 500 m resolution. We estimate 2.37 Mha burned annually between 2001–2019 over the domain, emitting 79.3 Tg C per year, with a mean combustion rate of 3.13 kg C m−2. We found larger-fire years were generally associated with greater mean combustion. The burned-area and combustion datasets described here can be used for local- to continental-scale applications of boreal fire science.
Here we developed a new burned-area detection algorithm between 2001–2019 across Alaska and...
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