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Using the NASA NEESPI Portal Data to Study Land, Climate, and Socio-Economic Changes in Northern Eurasia

Author
Gerasimov, Irina
Published
July 07, 2008.
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1 electronic document
Additional Creators
Csiszar, Ivan, Shen, Suhung, Romanov, Peter, Leptoukh, Gregory, and Loboda, Tatiana
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Summary
A large number of fires detected in July of 2003 - a nearly 200-time increase in fire detections compared to other years during 2001-2006. despite the summer monsoon suppression of large fire occurrence. Traditional vegetation indices (NDVI and EVI) included in operational fire danger assessment provide little information on the fuel state in this ecosystem pre- or post-fire. No considerable differences in surface temperature and soil moisture in July were observed between the catastrophic year of 2003 and the two subsequent years of low summer fire occurrence of 2004 and 2005. However, the temporal analysis indicates that dry spring conditions in 2003 (detected through low soil moisture measurements in April and May) may have led to a stressed vegetative state and created conditions conducive to catastrophic fire occurrence.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
Note
Document ID: 20080031741.
IGARSS 2008; 7-11 Jul. 2008; Boston, MA; United States.
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