Biomass Burning and Its Inter-Relationships with the Climate System

Biomass Burning and Climate: An Introduction.- Global Biomass Burning: A Case Study of the Gaseous and Particulate Emissions Released to the Atmosphere During the 1997 Fires in Kalimantan and Sumatra, Indonesia.- Modelling the Effect of Landuse Changes on Global Biomass Emissions.- Direct Effects of Fire on the Boreal Forest Carbon Budget.- The Impact of Biomass Burning on the Global Budget of Ozone and Ozone Precursors.- Impact of the 1997 Indonesian Fires on Tropospheric Ozone and its Precursors.- The Relationship Between Area Burned by Wildland Fire in Canada and Circulation Anomalies in the Mid-Troposphere.- Underestimation of GCM-Calculated Short-Wave Atmospheric Absorption in Areas Affected by Biomass burning.- Wildland Fire Detection from Space: Theory and Application.- Climate and Vegetation as Driving Factors in Global Fire Activity.- Modelling the Impact of Vegetation Fires, Detected from NOAA-AVHRR Data, on Tropospheric Chemistry in Tropical Africa.- A Rule-Based System for Burned Area Mapping in Temperate and Tropical Regions Using NOAA/AVHRR Imagery.- Fire Regime Sensitivity to Global Climate Change: An Australian Perspective.- The Interaction Between Forest Fires and Human Activity in Southern Switzerland.- Indirect and Long-Term Effects of Fire on the Boreal Forest Carbon Budget.- Sustainable Forestry as a Source of Bio-energy for Fossil Fuel Substitution.- Managing Smoke in United States Wildlands and Forests: A Challenge for Science and Regulations.- Area Burned Reconstruction and Measurement: A Comparison of Methods.- Interactions Between Biomass Burning and Climate: Conclusions Drawn from the Workshop.