Climate Impacts: Fire Fuels Change. Wake, B. Nature Climate Change, 4(8):662, August, 2014.
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[Excerpt] The burning of vegetation – biomass burning – impacts on climate and air pollution. The fires produce gases and particles that interact and change the atmosphere and clouds. Most biomass burning is human-caused, resulting from land-clearing and land-use change, with a small proportion due to natural causes. Mark Jacobson, of Stanford University, USA, uses a 3D global model to simulate biomass burning [...] Over a 20-year period, biomass burning caused a net temperature increase of 0.4 °C globally, largely because of cloud absorption effects. [...] Additionally, biomass burning was estimated to cause around 250,000 premature deaths per annum, with the majority due to particulate matter. [...]
@article{wakeClimateImpactsFire2014,
  title = {Climate Impacts: {{Fire}} Fuels Change},
  author = {Wake, Bronwyn},
  year = {2014},
  month = aug,
  volume = {4},
  pages = {662},
  issn = {1758-6798},
  doi = {10.1038/nclimate2333},
  abstract = {[Excerpt] The burning of vegetation -- biomass burning -- impacts on climate and air pollution. The fires produce gases and particles that interact and change the atmosphere and clouds. Most biomass burning is human-caused, resulting from land-clearing and land-use change, with a small proportion due to natural causes.

Mark Jacobson, of Stanford University, USA, uses a 3D global model to simulate biomass burning [...] Over a 20-year period, biomass burning caused a net temperature increase of 0.4 \textdegree C globally, largely because of cloud absorption effects. [...]

Additionally, biomass burning was estimated to cause around 250,000 premature deaths per annum, with the majority due to particulate matter. [...]},
  journal = {Nature Climate Change},
  keywords = {*imported-from-citeulike-INRMM,~INRMM-MiD:c-13332579,aerosol,anthropogenic-impacts,biomass,biomass-burning,carbon-emissions,climate,fire-fuel,global-warming},
  lccn = {INRMM-MiD:c-13332579},
  number = {8}
}

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