T. T. van Leeuwen

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a revised version of the Carnegie-Ames-Stanford-Approach (CASA) biogeochemical model and improved satellite-derived estimates of area burned, fire activity, and plant productivity to calculate fire emissions for the 1997-2009 period on a 0.5° spatial resolution with a monthly time step.

TL;DR: The workshop that led to this paper was sponsored by the EU FP7 COCOS project as discussed by the authors, and the authors acknowledge funding from the European FP7 MACC-II project (contract number 218793) and the EUFP7 GeoCarbon project (Contract number 283080).

TL;DR: In this article, a quadratic penalty formulation of the constrained optimization problem is proposed to solve the inverse and parameter estimation problems arising from inverse problems, where the objective is to find a stationary point of the Lagrangian and update the parameters and the state variables simultaneously.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the available body of EF literature in combination with satellite-derived information on vegetation characteristics and climatic conditions to better understand the spatio-temporal variability in EFs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of fires in terrestrial terrestrial carbon balance was modelled using the ORCHIDEE global vegetation model equipped with the SPITFIRE model, and it was shown that fire-induced land sink reduction is significantly correlated with climate variability, with larger sink reduction occurring in warm and dry years, in particular during El Nino events.