Motivation
Fires are projected to become larger, more intense, and increasingly severe in many areas of the globe as a response to climate and environmental changes. Understanding the complex ways fire influences feedbacks between land and the atmosphere is timely and essential for future climate projections. To facilitate studies across the scientific community focused on fire and its effects, there is a need for a central archive of relevant and accessible data from sites affected by fires. These data are critical to enable synthesis and new insights, design of site-level experiments, and advancements in predictive Earth System models.
Fires are projected to become larger, more intense, and increasingly severe in many areas of the globe as a response to climate and environmental changes. Understanding the complex ways fire influences feedbacks between land and the atmosphere is timely and essential for future climate projections. To facilitate studies across the scientific community focused on fire and its effects, there is a need for a central archive of relevant and accessible data from sites affected by fires. These data are critical to enable synthesis and new insights, design of site-level experiments, and advancements in predictive Earth System models.
Network Objectives
- To connect experimentalists, managers, and modelers around the globe interested in evaluating the impacts of fire on terrestrial ecosystems
- To discuss strategies for a fire science repository in ecological, environmental, and Earth sciences through regular meetings
- To create, host, and maintain a fire database/repository
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Stakeholders from national laboratories
and universities are invited to attend
Contacts:
Fernanda Santos
Jiafu Mao