Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/N01555X/1
KEY IN SITU MEASURES OF EL NINO EXACERBATED FIRES IN INDONESIA
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor MJ Wooster, King's College London, Geography
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr TEL Smith, London School of Economics & Pol Sci, Geography and Environment
- Grant held at:
- King's College London, Geography
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Unknown
- ENRIs:
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Natural Resource Management
- Science Topics:
- Biogeochemical Cycles
- Land - Atmosphere Interactions
- Biomass burning
- Carbon fluxes
- Forest fires
- Greenhouse gases
- Tropical forests
- Abstract:
- Biomass burning dramatically affects atmospheric composition and climate. Southeast Asia is a region where prior forest clearance, drainage of peatlands for agriculture, and the ongoing use of fire to 'manage' land annually leads to quite extensive emissions to the atmosphere (van der Werf et al., 2009). Occasionally however, El Ni?o Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climate anomalies lead to regional drought that massively exacerbates this annual activity, resulting in much more extensive, more strongly burning fires that include areas of forest and peat normally too moist to burn. There is a strong ENSO event occurring currently (Oct 2015) and this has lead to extensive and unusually severe fire activity in Berbak National Park (Sumatra) where we are working in collaboration with Zoological Society of London and with local Indonesian partners, supported by an Indonesian Government research permit. This allows us access to measure the unique activity now occurring, in order get a far better understanding of the greenhouse gas emissions from this unique fire activity, which is hugely magnified compared to "normal" years. Under the Urgency Funding we propose to undertake an aerial survey and in situ measurement campaign in order to collect the data needed for these calculations.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/N01555X/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Standard Grant FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Urgent Grant
This grant award has a total value of £47,703
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| DI - Other Costs | Indirect - Indirect Costs | DA - Investigators | DA - Estate Costs | DI - T&S | DA - Other Directly Allocated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £31,856 | £1,888 | £5,988 | £334 | £6,856 | £782 |
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