The 2019 and 2020 severe fire seasons in Asian Russia: Facts, Fallacies, and Feedbacks
This panel session will explore the factors involved in the severe 2019 and 2020 fire seasons in Siberia and the Russian Far East. Panelists will discuss the role of climate and weather, including seasonal patterns; vegetation types and changing fire regimes; spatial and temporal distribution of fires, emissions and energy release, and what types of fuels were burning, and fire feedbacks to climate. Were these the worst fire seasons ever? What do they tell us about the future? What are implications for ecosystem health? What are implications for feedbacks to regional and global climate?
Panel time: Thursday 19th August, 7:10 am – 9:10 am AKST
Moderator: Susan G. Conard, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Panel members: Six panelists, with each having 10-12 min to present. 40 min of discussion to follow panel presentations.
0715 Elena Kukavskaya, V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forests, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Vegetation, fuels, and fire regimes of Siberia and how they are changing.
0727 Evgenii Ponomarev, V.N Sukachev Institute of Forests, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
(Susan Conard, presenter)
Temporal and spatial patterns of burned area in Asian Russia in 2020 compared with past fire seasons.
0739 Roman Kotelnikov and Iuliia Achikolova, Center of Forest Pyrology, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Forest fire zoning as the basis of forest fire protection. The principles and reasons for zoning Russian forests for wildfire management.
0751 Thomas E. L. Smith, London School of Economics & Political Science, London, UK.
What vegetation was burning when, energy release from fires. Emphasis on peat fires.
0803 Mark Parrington, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK and Bonn, Germany.
Effects of changing climate on weather patterns in Russia. Jet stream patterns and other weather-related factors that can affect fire occurrence and intensity and smoke transport.
0815 Jessica McCarty, Miami University, Oxford Ohio
Fire and Short-Lived Climate Forcers: Impacts of Changing Circumpolar Fire Regimes
0830 DISCUSSION and QUESTIONS