Yannick
Le Page
is an early-stage researcher, from France, and will be
joining the GREENCYCLES MC-RTN Network in January 2006.. Current
Research
This
research will focus on global
biomass burning and its relationships with the climate system.
Biomass burning is recognized as a major source
of greenhouse gases and of aerosols, which affect the climate
system. Conversely, global vegetation fire activity is under
strong climatic control and is affected, namely, by climatic
modes such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The
objectives of the Instituto Superior de Agronomia in this
project are: - To analyse and model teleconnections between remotely
sensed global fire activity datasets and indices of climatic
modes, in order to quantify the extent the interannual variability
of fire activity is under climatic control. - To
collaborate in modelling the climatic forcing from pyrogenic
emissions and from fire-induced surface albedo
changes, using GCMs.
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