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Yang Chen
Researcher at University of California, Irvine
Publications - 44
Citations - 5388
Yang Chen is an academic researcher from University of California, Irvine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Deforestation & Aerosol. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 44 publications receiving 3887 citations. Previous affiliations of Yang Chen include University of Michigan & Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Global fire emissions estimates during 1997–2016
Guido R. van der Werf,James T. Randerson,Louis Giglio,Thijs T. van Leeuwen,Yang Chen,Brendan M. Rogers,Mingquan Mu,Margreet J. E. van Marle,Douglas C. Morton,G. James Collatz,Robert J. Yokelson,Prasad S. Kasibhatla +11 more
TL;DR: The Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED) as mentioned in this paper has been used to quantify global fire emissions patterns during 1997-2016, with the largest impact on emissions in temperate North America, Central America, Europe, and temperate Asia.
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A human-driven decline in global burned area
Niels Andela,Niels Andela,Douglas C. Morton,Louis Giglio,Yang Chen,G. R. van der Werf,Prasad S. Kasibhatla,Ruth DeFries,G. J. Collatz,Stijn Hantson,Silvia Kloster,Dominique Bachelet,Matthew Forrest,Gitta Lasslop,Fang Li,Stéphane Mangeon,Joe R. Melton,Chao Yue,James T. Randerson +18 more
TL;DR: Assessing long-term fire trends using multiple satellite data sets found that global burned area declined by 24.3 ± 8.8% over the past 18 years, and the estimated decrease in burned area remained robust after adjusting for precipitation variability and was largest in savannas.
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Global burned area and biomass burning emissions from small fires
TL;DR: In this paper, a method for combining 1-km thermal anomalies (active fires) and 500 m burned area observations from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) was developed to estimate the influence of these fires.
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Estimated Global Mortality Attributable to Smoke from Landscape Fires
Fay H. Johnston,Sarah B. Henderson,Yang Chen,James T. Randerson,Miriam E. Marlier,Ruth DeFries,Patrick L. Kinney,David M. J. S. Bowman,Michael Brauer +8 more
TL;DR: Fire emissions are an important contributor to global mortality and could be substantially reduced by curtailing burning of tropical rainforests, which rarely burn naturally.
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El Nino and health risks from landscape fire emissions in southeast Asia
Miriam E. Marlier,Ruth DeFries,Apostolos Voulgarakis,Patrick L. Kinney,James T. Randerson,Drew Shindell,Yang Chen,Gregory Faluvegi +7 more
TL;DR: It is shown that reducing regional deforestation and degradation fires would improve public health along with widely established benefits from reducing carbon emissions, preserving biodiversity, and maintaining ecosystem services.