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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-663-2018
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Research article
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28 May 2018
Research article |
| 28 May 2018
| 28 May 2018
The biomass burning contribution to climate–carbon-cycle feedback
Sandy P. Harrison
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of
Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AB, UK
Patrick J. Bartlein
Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
97403–1251, USA
Victor Brovkin
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstraße 53, 20146
Hamburg, Germany
Sander Houweling
Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De
Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Silvia Kloster
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstraße 53, 20146
Hamburg, Germany
I. Colin Prentice
AXA Chair of Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Department of Life
Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, SL5 7PY, UK
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Short summary
Temperature affects fire occurrence and severity. Warming will increase fire-related carbon emissions and thus atmospheric CO2. The size of this feedback is not known. We use charcoal records to estimate pre-industrial fire emissions and a simple land–biosphere model to quantify the feedback. We infer a feedback strength of 5.6 3.2 ppm CO2 per degree of warming and a gain of 0.09 ± 0.05 for a climate sensitivity of 2.8 K. Thus, fire feedback is a large part of the climate–carbon-cycle feedback.
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