Black Carbon Emissions from Wildfireson Forest Lands of the Russian Federationin 2007–2012

N. S. Smirnov, V. N. Korotkov, and A. A. Romanovskaya

Presented is the method of computational monitoring of black carbon emissions due to wild- fires. The computation is carried out for the territory of Russia for the period of 2007–2012. Given is the distribution of black carbon emissions according to fire types and regions. The mean value of black carbon emission due to wildfires for the period under consideration amounted to 81.9 37.2 103 t/year and interannual variations are from 53.8 103 t in 2011 to 143.5 103 t in 2008. The mean value of black carbon emission in the forests is 25.0 3.7 kg/ha for crown fires, 24.0 0.1 kg/ha for under- ground fires, 10.2 1.2 kg/ha for ground fires, and 4.1 0.3 kg/ha for fires in non-forested areas.