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Fire/Climate Interactions in Siberia

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Environmental Change in Siberia

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This paper presents an intercomparison of two burned area datasets, the L3JRC daily global burned area dataset derived from SPOT-VEGETATION and the FFID burned area dataset from MODIS. Burned area dynamics are presented and the influence of climate on the fire regime is discussed. Feedbacks of the fire dynamics to the climate system are evaluated. The Russian fire danger index is presented and compared to satellite observations of fires.

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Acknowledgments

The Global Land Cover 2000 database was generated by the European Commission, Joint Research Centre, 2003, http://www-gem.jrc.it/glc2000.

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  1. Department of Geography, Centre for Environmental Research, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK

    H. Balzter, K. Tansey & J. Kaduk

  2. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB, UK

    C. George, F. Gerard & M. Cuevas Gonzalez

  3. Siberian branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, VN Sukachev Institute of Forest, Academgorogok, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia

    A. Sukhinin & E. Ponomarev

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Balzter, H. et al. (2010). Fire/Climate Interactions in Siberia. In: Balzter, H. (eds) Environmental Change in Siberia. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 40. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8641-9_2

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