Purpose of Review

Understanding of how fire affects the carbon cycle and climate is crucial for climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. As those are often based on Earth system model simulations, we identify recent progress and research needs that can improve the model representation of fire and its impacts.

Recent Findings

New constraints of fire effects on the carbon cycle and climate are provided by the quantification of the carbon ages and effects of vegetation types and traits. For global scale modelling, the low understanding of the human–fire relationship is limiting.

Summary

Recent developments allow improvements in Earth system models with respect to the influences of vegetation on climate, peatland burning and the pyrogenic carbon cycle. Better understanding of human influences is required. Given the impacts of fire on carbon storage and climate, thorough understanding of the effects of fire in the Earth system is crucial to support climate change mitigation and adaptation.

中文翻译：

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火对碳循环和气候的影响

审查目的

了解火如何影响碳循环和气候对适应和缓解气候变化战略至关重要。由于这些通常基于地球系统模型仿真，因此，我们确定了可以改善火灾及其影响的模型表示形式的最新进展和研究需求。

最近的发现

通过量化碳年龄以及植被类型和特征的影响，提供了火灾对碳循环和气候的新限制。对于全球规模建模，对人与火之间关系的了解不足是有限的。

概要

最近的发展使地球系统模型在植被对气候，泥炭地燃烧和热碳循环的影响方面得到了改善。需要更好地了解人类的影响。考虑到火势对碳储存和气候的影响，全面了解火势对地球系统的影响对于支持缓解和适应气候变化至关重要。