Title :
Seasonal and interannual variations of global fire and aerosol from satellite observations
Author :
Ji, Y. ; Stocker, E.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Computational Sci., George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA, USA
Abstract :
Statistical analyses of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Science Data and Information System (TSDIS) pentad fire composite data identified 25-60 day intra-seasonal oscillations that are superimposed in the annual cycles of global bio-mass burnings. The results also indicated interannual variations of fires associated with 1998/1999 ENSO cycle in Indonesian and Central America. Similar statistical methods were used to analyze the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer aerosol index product. The results were consistent with those derived from the TSDIS fire data
Keywords :
aerosols; air pollution; atmospheric composition; fires; forestry; remote sensing; vegetation mapping; TRMM; TSDIS; aerosol; annual cycle; annual cycles; atmosphere; burning; fire; forest; forest fire; global fire; interannual variation; intra-seasonal oscillations; remote sensing; satellite observations; season; seasonal variation; vegetation; wildfire; Aerosols; Africa; Asia; Biomass; Fires; Information systems; NASA; Satellites; Spectroscopy; Statistical analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7031-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.976640
