KEY IN SITU MEASURES OF EL NINO EXACERBATED FIRES IN INDONESIA

生物质燃烧极大地影响了大气成分和气候。在东南亚地区，森林砍伐、用于农业的泥炭地排水以及每年持续使用火来“管理”土地，都会导致相当广泛的大气排放(van der Werf等人，2009年)。然而，厄尔尼诺-南方涛动(ENSO)气候异常偶尔会导致区域干旱，从而大大加剧这一年度活动，导致更广泛、更强烈的火灾，包括通常太潮湿而不能燃烧的森林和泥炭区域。目前(2015年10月)发生了一次强烈的ENSO事件，这导致了伯巴克国家公园(苏门答腊岛)发生了广泛而异常严重的火灾活动，在那里，我们与伦敦动物学会和印尼当地合作伙伴合作，得到了印尼政府研究许可证的支持。这使我们能够测量目前正在发生的独特活动，以便更好地了解这种独特的火灾活动产生的温室气体排放，与“正常”年份相比，这种活动被极大地放大了。在资金紧迫的情况下，我们提议开展一次空中测量和现场测量活动，以便收集这些计算所需的数据。

Biomass burning dramatically affects atmospheric composition and climate. Southeast Asia is a region where prior forest clearance, drainage of peatlands for agriculture, and the ongoing use of fire to 'manage' land annually leads to quite extensive emissions to the atmosphere (van der Werf et al., 2009). Occasionally however, El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climate anomalies lead to regional drought that massively exacerbates this annual activity, resulting in much more extensive, more strongly burning fires that include areas of forest and peat normally too moist to burn. There is a strong ENSO event occurring currently (Oct 2015) and this has lead to extensive and unusually severe fire activity in Berbak National Park (Sumatra) where we are working in collaboration with Zoological Society of London and with local Indonesian partners, supported by an Indonesian Government research permit. This allows us access to measure the unique activity now occurring, in order get a far better understanding of the greenhouse gas emissions from this unique fire activity, which is hugely magnified compared to "normal" years. Under the Urgency Funding we propose to undertake an aerial survey and in situ measurement campaign in order to collect the data needed for these calculations.