
%0 Journal Article
%A Beringer, J 
%A Packham, D 
%A Tapper, N 
%T Biomass Burning and Resulting Emissions in the Northern Territory, Australia
%J International Journal of Wildland Fire
%D 1995/12/01
%V 5
%N 4
%P 229-235
%K NOAA-AVHRR; Biomass burning; Australian tropics; Remote sensing; Trace gas and aerosol emissions
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/WF9950229
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/WF9950229 
%X The extent of biomass burning in the Northern Territory, Australia, during 1992 (a year of low fire activity) was estimated using NOAA-AVHRR satellite imagery and was subsequently used to calculate the emission of gaseous compounds from biomass burning for that year. A total of 73,729 km2 was determined to have been burnt, representing 5.5% of the total Northern Territory area. The extent of biomass burning in different vegetation units in the Northern Territory was also estimated with eucalypt communities comprising 72% of the total area burnt. An estimated 29.5 x 106 tonnes of biomass was consumed by burning, resulting in the production of an estimated : 1. 11.3 Tg C as carbon dioxide, 2. 1.02 Tg C as carbon monoxide, (3) 5.23 x 10-3 Tg C as total particulate matter, 4. 26.1 x 10-3 Tg N as nitrous oxides, 5. various other trace gases. The calculated release of CO2 in this study accounts for only 41% of the estimated Australian contribution to global emmissions from biomass burning, indicating that the Australian contribution may be overestimted. 
