Increasing Fuel Loads, Fire Hazard, and Carbon Emissions from Fires in Central Siberia
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Region
2.2. Surface and Ground Fuel-Load Sampling
2.3. Generation of the Fuel-Load Maps
2.4. Generation of the Fire-Hazard Maps
2.5. Evaluation of Carbon Emissions from Fires
3. Results
3.1. Surface and Ground Fuel-Load Maps
3.2. Fire hazards in the Angara Region
3.3. Carbon Emissions from Fires in the Angara Region
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Kukavskaya, E.A.; Shvetsov, E.G.; Buryak, L.V.; Tretyakov, P.D.; Groisman, P.Y. Increasing Fuel Loads, Fire Hazard, and Carbon Emissions from Fires in Central Siberia. Fire 2023, 6, 63. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6020063
Kukavskaya EA, Shvetsov EG, Buryak LV, Tretyakov PD, Groisman PY. Increasing Fuel Loads, Fire Hazard, and Carbon Emissions from Fires in Central Siberia. Fire. 2023; 6(2):63. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6020063
Chicago/Turabian StyleKukavskaya, Elena A., Evgeny G. Shvetsov, Ludmila V. Buryak, Pavel D. Tretyakov, and Pavel Ya. Groisman. 2023. "Increasing Fuel Loads, Fire Hazard, and Carbon Emissions from Fires in Central Siberia" Fire 6, no. 2: 63. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6020063