WE PROPOSE EXPANDING TO A NATIONAL LEVEL OUR SUCCESSFUL REGIONAL (KALIMANTAN) CMS PROJECT (NNX13AP46G) TO BETTER ADVANCE INDONESIA S MONITORING REPORTING AND VERIFICATION (MRV) CAPABILITIES FOR PEATLAND CARBON EMISSIONS AND SUPPORT NATIONWIDE REDUCING EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION AND FOREST DEGRADATION (REDD) EFFORTS. WE WILL IMPLEMENT OUR STANDARDIZED FIELD-BASED ANALYSES OF FUELS HYDROLOGY PEAT BURNING CHARACTERISTICS AND FIRE EMISSIONS DEVELOPED FROM OUR ONGOING WORK IN A 120 000 HA REDD + PROJECT TO REGIONALLY PARAMETERIZE OUR PEATLAND EMISSIONS MODEL FOR ALL OF INDONESIA S MAJOR PEATLAND AREAS BY INCLUDING THREE NEW LOCATIONS RIAU AND JAMBI (SUMATRA) AND WESTERN PAPUA (PAPUA) FOR INCLUSION WITHIN THE INDONESIAN NATIONAL CARBON ACCOUNTING SYSTEM (INCAS). WE WILL CONDUCT ON-SITE WHOLE AIR SAMPLING OF NATURAL PEAT SMOKE PLUMES IN SITU FOR PRECISE MEASUREMENT OF NONREACTIVE GREENHOUSE GASES COLLECT PEAT SAMPLES JUST IN FRONT OF THESE ACTIVE PEAT FIRES AND BURN THE SAMPLES IN THE US WHILE MEASURING AEROSOL MASS AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND REACTIVE GASES. THIS WILL CREATE COMPREHENSIVE AND PERTINENT EMISSIONS FACTORS (EFS) FOR EACH STUDY REGION THAT WILL BE CRITICALLY IMPORTANT FOR ASSESSING HEALTH IMPACTS AND TOTAL GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL (GWP) OF THESE EMISSIONS. REMOTELY SENSED LAND COVER/CHANGE (LANDSAT) AND SURFACE FIRE IGNITION TIMING AND LOCATIONS (MODIS) PROVIDE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DRIVERS FOR THE MODELLED EMISSIONS THAT WILL NOW BE VALIDATED/CONSTRAINED AT A NATIONAL LEVEL USING BIOMASS BURNING EMISSIONS ESTIMATIONS DERIVED FROM VISIBLE/INFRARED IMAGER AND RADIOMETER SUITE (VIIRS) ON BOARD THE SUOMI NATIONAL POLARORBITING PARTNERSHIP (NPP) SATELLITE AND THE NEW JAPANESE GEOSTATIONARY METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE (HIMAWARI-8). MULTIPLE LIDAR DATASETS (2014 2011 2007) FOR KALIMANTAN ARE BEING USED TO QUANTIFY MODEL ACCURACY AND NEW WORK WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO QUANTIFY UNCERTAINTY IN OUR MOST RECENT LIDAR-BASED DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL (DTM) FURTHER IMPROVING ASSESSMENTS OF MODELLING ERRORS.
$185,748FY2017National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA
South Dakota State University, Brookings SD