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Articles | Volume 22, issue 1
Articles | Volume 22, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-213-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-213-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 22, issue 1
Research article
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13 Jan 2025
Research article |  | 13 Jan 2025

Soil smoldering in temperate forests: a neglected contributor to fire carbon emissions revealed by atmospheric mixing ratios

Lilian Vallet, Charbel Abdallah, Thomas Lauvaux, Lilian Joly, Michel Ramonet, Philippe Ciais, Morgan Lopez, Irène Xueref-Remy, and Florent Mouillot

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The 2022 fire season had a huge impact on European temperate forest, with several large fires exhibiting prolonged soil combustion reported. We analyzed CO and CO2 concentration recorded at nearby atmospheric towers, revealing intense smoldering combustion. We refined a fire emission model to incorporate this process. We estimated 7.95 Mteq CO2 fire emission, twice the global estimate. Fires contributed to 1.97 % of France's annual carbon footprint, reducing forest carbon sink by 30 % this year.
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