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Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2018, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 261-271

Features of forest fire activity in boreal forests of the permafrost region of Eastern Siberia

O.A. Tomshin 1 , V.S. Solovyev 1, 2 
1 Yu. G. Shafer Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy SB RAS, Yakutsk, Russia
2 M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia
Accepted: 11.10.2017
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2018-15-1-261-271
The results of a study on forest fire activity, variations in aerosol optical thickness (AOT), aerosol index (AI), methane and carbon monoxide in Yakutia (Eastern Siberia) according to satellite observations are presented. Analysis of the spatiotemporal distribution of forest fires indicates the presence of a local area with high frequency of forest fires in the central part of Yakutia. The catastrophic forest fires observed in 2001, 2002 and 2012–2014 presumably were caused by abnormally high temperatures and low humidity in the pre-fire period. It is shown that in years with a high level of forest fire activity, the forest fire factor proves to be the dominant one in the formation of seasonal variations of aerosol indicators and carbon monoxide. In conditions of dense smoke from forest fires, when the calculation of AOT is impossible due to methodological limitations, the AI index is more adequate for estimating the atmospheric aerosol.
Keywords: forest fires, aerosols, remote sensing
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