Human-caused fires release more carbon than lightning-caused fires in the conterminous United States

Anthropogenic carbon emissions from fires impact the global carbon budget and contribute to global warming. However, due to the lack of inventory data, little was known about how carbon emissions differed between human-caused and lightning-caused fires previously. In this study, the Fire Program Ana...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Meng Liu, Linqing Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2020-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abcbbc