{"id":715,"date":"2019-11-11T18:18:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T18:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/?p=715"},"modified":"2019-11-11T18:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T18:22:43","slug":"albedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/11\/albedo\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change decreases the cooling effect from post\u2010fire albedo in boreal North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_701\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-701\" style=\"width: 546px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-701\" src=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/burned_albedo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/burned_albedo.png 546w, https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/burned_albedo-227x300.png 227w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fires included in our analysis, which ranged between 1930 and 2013, aggregated to 100 km grid cells (a), and mean blue sky albedo composite for the month of April during 2000-2013 (b).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Climate change will lead to decreases in mean annual post\u2010fire albedo and a decreasing strength of the negative radiative forcing, according to research published recently in Global Change Biology.<\/p>\n<p>This suggests climate change will decrease the strength of the cooling effect typically observed in post-fire landscapes.<\/p>\n<p>GEODE lab lead\u00a0<strong>Scott Goetz,<\/strong>\u00a0post-doctoral scholar\u00a0<strong>Richard Massey<\/strong>, along with NAU colleague Michelle Mack,\u00a0collaborated with a team of researchers from Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) to predict fire-driven changes in albedo under historical and future climate scenarios across boreal North America using WHRC\u2019s MODIS-derived \u201cblue sky\u201d albedo product.<\/p>\n<p>They estimate that, under historical climate conditions (1971-2000), fire induced changes in albedo generate an annual mean cooling of -1.77 \u00b1 1.35 W m<sup>-2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>This is changing for fires burning in the modern era.<\/p>\n<p>For fires that burned in the year 2016, models predict\u00a0the cooling effect from long\u2010term post\u2010fire albedo will be reduced by 15%\u201328% due to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full paper\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/gcb.14888\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change will lead to decreases in mean annual post\u2010fire albedo and a decreasing strength of the negative radiative forcing, according to research published recently in Global Change Biology. This suggests climate change will decrease the strength of the cooling effect typically observed in post-fire landscapes. GEODE lab lead\u00a0Scott Goetz,\u00a0post-doctoral scholar\u00a0Richard Massey, along with NAU &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/11\/albedo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Climate change decreases the cooling effect from post\u2010fire albedo in boreal North America&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}