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Future carbon losses to wildfires in the Pacific Northwest region of the USA

Future carbon losses to wildfires in the Pacific Northwest region of the USA

Apr 6, 2010 (Last modified Jul 12, 2010)

Created by Dominique Bachelet

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Description: The dynamic vegetation model MC1 was used to simulate carbon losses due to wildfire in the western 2/3 of PNW. This map shows current carbon density for the area and the 3 fire effects maps show the amount of carbon per unit area that might be consumed by wildfires under the three projected future climate scenarios.

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Credits: Dominique Bachelet

Use Constraints: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

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Tags: washington, oregon, fire, climate change, carbon, scenarios

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About the Map Author

Dominique Bachelet

climate change scientist with Oregon State University

Dominique received her Master’s degree in 1978 in Lille (France) and her Ph.D. in 1983 from Colorado State University with a thesis focused on biogeochemical cycles in the shortgrass prairie. In 1984 she went to U.C. Riverside as a postdoc simulating nitrogen fixing shrubs in the Sonoran desert then...