@Article{BrownScSeMaPaDuMa:2006:MoFiSo,
               author = "Brown, F. and Schroeder, W. and Setzer, Alberto Waingort and 
                         Maldonado, M. de Los Rios and Pandoja, N. and Duarte, A. and 
                         Marengo, Jos{\'e} Antonio",
          affiliation = "{} and {} and Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), 
                         Centro de Previs{\~a}o de Tempo e Estudos Clim{\'a}ticos (CPTEC) 
                         and {} and {} and {} and Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais 
                         (INPE), Centro de Previs{\~a}o de Tempo e Estudos Clim{\'a}ticos 
                         (CPTEC)",
                title = "Monitoring fires in Southwestern Amazonia rain forests",
              journal = "EOS Transactions",
                 year = "2006",
               volume = "87",
               number = "26",
                pages = "253--264",
                month = "Jun.",
             keywords = "pollution, multinational satellite imagery, resolution imaging 
                         spectroradiometer, large-scale biosphere-atmosphere experiment in 
                         amazonia.",
             abstract = "From mid-July to mid-October 2005, an environmental disaster 
                         unfolded in the trinational region of Madre de Dios, Peru; Acre, 
                         Brazil; and Pando, Bolivia (the MAP region), in southwestern 
                         Amazonia. A prolonged dry season and human-initiated fires 
                         resulted in smoke pollution affecting more than 400,000 persons, 
                         fire damage to over 300,000 hectares of rain forest, and over 
                         US\$ 50 million of direct economic losses. Indicatorrs suggest 
                         that anomalous drought conditions could occur again this year. In 
                         May 2005, river levels, were the lowest in 34 years in Rio Branco, 
                         Acre, Brazil, signaling that the subsequent dry season would be 
                         unusual. Rainfall became virtually absent for several months, not 
                         only in eastern Acre but also in the neighboring Bolivian 
                         department of Pando and the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios. This 
                         enhanced dry season extended over much of western Amazonia with 
                         severe societal impact; by October 2005, regional governments had 
                         declared states of emergency in Pando, Acre, and Amazonas, an area 
                         covering more than a million square kilometers. Whereas previous 
                         droughts could be linked to El Niņo events [Williams et al., 2005; 
                         Marengo, 2004], J. A. Marengo et al. (The drought of Amazonia in 
                         2005, manuscript in preparation, 2006) suggest that this drought 
                         was not related to El Niņo but was instead associated with 
                         anomalously warm surface water in the tropical North Atlantic, 
                         similar to a previous drought in 1963-1964.",
           copyholder = "SID/SCD",
                 issn = "2324-9250",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "monitoring.setzer.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "15 jun. 2024"
}