Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change

N Seddon, A Smith, P Smith, I Key… - Global change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Nature‐based solutions (NbS)—solutions to societal challenges that involve
working with nature—have recently gained popularity as an integrated approach that can …

Review of emissions from smouldering peat fires and their contribution to regional haze episodes

Y Hu, N Fernandez-Anez, TEL Smith… - International Journal of …, 2018 - CSIRO Publishing
Smouldering peat fires, the largest fires on Earth in terms of fuel consumption, are reported
in six continents and are responsible for regional haze episodes. Haze is the large-scale …

Terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their services

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat, R Adrian… - 2023 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Wildfire and degradation accelerate northern peatland carbon release

SL Wilkinson, R Andersen, PA Moore… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
The northern peatland carbon sink plays a vital role in climate regulation; however, the
future of the carbon sink is uncertain, in part, due to the changing interactions of peatlands …

[PDF][PDF] Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene

JK Shuman, JK Balch, RT Barnes, PE Higuera… - PNAS …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Fire is an integral component of ecosystems globally and a tool that humans have
harnessed for millennia. Altered fire regimes are a fundamental cause and consequence of …

Smoldering combustion

G Rein - SFPE handbook of fire protection engineering, 2016 - Springer
Smoldering combustion is the slow, low temperature, flameless burning of porous fuels and
is the most persistent type of combustion phenomena. It is especially common in porous …

[HTML][HTML] Peatland-fire interactions: A review of wildland fire feedbacks and interactions in Canadian boreal peatlands

K Nelson, D Thompson, C Hopkinson, R Petrone… - Science of the total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Boreal peatlands store a disproportionately large quantity of soil carbon (C) and play a
critical role within the global C-climate system; however, with climatic warming, these C …

Downward spread of smouldering peat fire: the role of moisture, density and oxygen supply

X Huang, G Rein - International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2017 - CSIRO Publishing
Smouldering fires in peatland are different from the flames in wildland fires. Smouldering
peat fire is slow, low-temperature and more persistent, releasing large amounts of smoke …

[HTML][HTML] Aerosol optical properties and trace gas emissions by PAX and OP-FTIR for laboratory-simulated western US wildfires during FIREX

V Selimovic, RJ Yokelson, C Warneke… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
Western wildfires have a major impact on air quality in the US. In the fall of 2016, 107 test
fires were burned in the large-scale combustion facility at the US Forest Service Missoula …

[HTML][HTML] Smouldering combustion of peat in wildfires: Inverse modelling of the drying and the thermal and oxidative decomposition kinetics

X Huang, G Rein - Combustion and Flame, 2014 - Elsevier
Smouldering combustion is the driving phenomenon of wildfire in peatlands, like those
causing haze episodes in Southeast Asia and Northeast Europe. These are the largest fires …