Atmospheric releases during the 2003 glacier wildfires: Mapping, analysis and modeling

Germana Manca; Guido Cervone; Keith C. Clarke

doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352396

Atmospheric releases during the 2003 glacier wildfires: Mapping, analysis and modeling

Germana Manca, Guido Cervone, Keith C. Clarke

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A combined GIS and remote sensing approach to map and model the large wildfires in the summer 2003 at Glacier National Park. Numerical simulations were performed using the Clarke cellular automaton fire model, and the fire extents were validated using remote sensing data from the MODIS instrument. The results show a good correlation between the predicted fires and the actual. In addition, remote sensing data from the MODIS and TOMS instruments are used to quantify the optical dimming of the atmosphere caused by the fires. Atmospheric dimming correlated both spatially and temporally with the amount of burned fuel computed by the Clarke model. The observed atmospheric dimming is correlated both spatially and temporally with the fire simulations. Such knowledge is crucial in order to build a coupled land-atmosphere fire model.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	IGARSS 2012 - 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Pages	5360-5363
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352396
State	Published - 2012
Event	2012 32nd IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2012 - Munich, Germany Duration: Jul 22 2012 → Jul 27 2012

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Other	2012 32nd IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2012
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Munich
Period	7/22/12 → 7/27/12

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General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Computer Science Applications

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Manca, G, Cervone, G & Clarke, KC 2012, Atmospheric releases during the 2003 glacier wildfires: Mapping, analysis and modeling. in IGARSS 2012 - 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium., 6352396, pp. 5360-5363, 2012 32nd IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2012, Munich, Germany, 7/22/12. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352396

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