Seasonal and interannual variations of global fire and aerosol from satellite observations

Author

Ji, Y. ; Stocker, E.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Computational Sci., George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

798

Abstract

Statistical analyses of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Science Data and Information System (TSDIS) pentad fire composite data identified 25-60 day intra-seasonal oscillations that are superimposed in the annual cycles of global bio-mass burnings. The results also indicated interannual variations of fires associated with 1998/1999 ENSO cycle in Indonesian and Central America. Similar statistical methods were used to analyze the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer aerosol index product. The results were consistent with those derived from the TSDIS fire data

Keywords

aerosols; air pollution; atmospheric composition; fires; forestry; remote sensing; vegetation mapping; TRMM; TSDIS; aerosol; annual cycle; annual cycles; atmosphere; burning; fire; forest; forest fire; global fire; interannual variation; intra-seasonal oscillations; remote sensing; satellite observations; season; seasonal variation; vegetation; wildfire; Aerosols; Africa; Asia; Biomass; Fires; Information systems; NASA; Satellites; Spectroscopy; Statistical analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7031-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2001.976640

Filename

976640