Evidence for multi-decadal fuel buildup in a large California wildfire from smoke radiocarbon measurements

In recent decades, there has been a significant increase in annual area burned in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. This rise in fire activity has prompted the need to understand how historical forest management practices affect fuel composition and emissions. Here we examined the total carbon (...

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Main Authors: A Odwuor, C C Yañez, Y Chen, F M Hopkins, A Moreno, X Xu, C I Czimczik, J T Randerson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aced17