Conference looks at worldwide effects of biomass burning.(Originated from...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 13, 1995 ;     700+ words ......climate change. This biomass burning, of rain forests...latest findings in biomass burning. The weeklong...solar radiation. ``Biomass burning seems to be a...Technology's Center for Global Change Science and a...important this biomass burning might be.'' ...

The Short-Term Cooling but Long-Term Global Warming Due to Biomass Burning

Journal of Climate;  August 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Biomass burning releases gases (e.g., CO2, CO...simulations of the climate response of biomass-burning aerosols and shortlived gases...long-term effect of controlling biomass-burning CO2 and CH^sub 4^ to estimate...

Chemical issues in biomass burning in Sub-Saharan Africa.(The Project...

Chemistry International;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......all the aspects relevant to biomass burning in sub-Saharan Africa, with...on the chemistry aspects. Biomass burning implies emission of combustion...material resource. The extent of biomass burning in sub-Saharan Africa, and...

The 1985 biomass burning season in South America: Satellite remote sensing...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......monitor fires and smoke during the 1985 biomass burning season. The results are characterized...direct regional radiative forcing of biomass burning aerosols is computed. The results...practices. The smoke generated from biomass burning has negative instantaneous net radiative...

CLIMATE EFFECTS OF BIOMASS BURNING

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  August 1, 2004 ;     583 words ...Biomass burning contributes to climate change, but...climate response of controlling biomass-burning gas and particle emissions together...whereas eliminating particles from biomass burning warm globally averaged temperatures...

Assessing the role of biomass burning in global climate change: new...

National Forum;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ......natural disasters. A HOT TOPIC Fires and biomass burning are of particular interest to many...hydrological cycle. The practice of biomass burning is not new - people have burned forest...deforested region grow back. So why is biomass burning and deforestation a concern? Because...

Increased water vapor in stratosphere possibly caused by tropical biomass...

M2 Presswire;  February 20, 2002 ;     394 words ......stratosphere possibly caused by tropical biomass burning (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD...caused, at least in part, by tropical biomass burning, a Yale researcher has concluded from...examining satellite weather data. Tropical biomass burning is any burning of plant material...

Biomass burning ignites concern.

Science News;  March 31, 1990 ;     700+ words ...Biomass Burning Ignites Concern Burning practices...conference to address the issue of biomass burning. Scientists once viewed air pollution...world. Concern over the effects of biomass burning has grown since the late 1970s...

Daytime variation of shortwave direct radiative forcing of biomass burning...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  February 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......forcing (SWARF) of smoke aerosols over biomass burning regions in South America (4 deg-16...residence times in the atmosphere. Biomass burning in the Tropics accounts for more than...et al. 1992; Hansen et al. 1997). Biomass burning is used to clear extensive areas of...

Estimation of surface and top-of-atmosphere shortwave irradiance in...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......cloud-free regions dominated by smoke from biomass burning in Brazil. The calculated DSWI values...to be performed in the presence of biomass-burning aerosols on a routine basis, a concerted...ground-based measurements. 1. Introduction Biomass burning is considered to be a major ...

Organizational Dimensions of Global Change: No Limits to...

Administrative Science Quarterly;  June 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......to the topic of human dimensions of global change, a worldwide movement to create an...organization theory and change scholarship to global change research. Its roots go back to a call...p. 35). Despite the importance of global change, the management literature is surprisingly...

ISI launches Focus On: Global Change. (Institute for Scientific...

Information Today;  February 1, 1990 ;     482 words ...ISI Launches Focus On: Global Change Last month the Institute for...awareness product called Focus On: Global Change. International in scope and available...for this information. Focus On: Global Change is scheduled to begin publications...

Fresh smoke lowers nitrous oxide estimate. (biomass burning contributes...

Science News;  March 2, 1991 ;     525 words ......smoke lowers nitrous oxide estimate Biomass burning -- the combustion of organic matter...analyses -- have seriously exaggerated biomass burning's role in growing atmospheric levels of this pollutant, Levine says. The new biomass-burning data parallel findings two years ago...

Organizational Dimensions of Global Change -- No Limits to...

Organization Studies;  May 1, 2001 ;     262 words ......Dutton: Organizational Dimensions of Global Change -- No Limits to Cooperation 1999, London...pages. Organizational Dimensions of Global Change is the first book in a new series designed...emergent dialogue around the issue of global change and cooperative potential across ...

Rep. Udall Introduces Global Change Research, Data Management Act

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Udall, D-Colorado, has introduced the Global Change Research and Data Management Act of...that would "promote and coordinate global change research." The bill, introduced on...full-text of the legislation follows:Global Change Research and Data Management Act of...