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New Study Shows Surprising Effects of Fire in North America’s Boreal Forests
Using a first-of-its-kind approach to analyze satellite imagery from boreal forests over the last three decades, Northern Arizona University (NAU) and Woodwell Climate Research Center scientists found that fire may be changing the face of the region in a way researchers did not previously anticipate. The study leveraged the Google Earth Engine cloud computing platform, the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) ABoVE Science Cloud, and NAU’s high-performance computing cluster Monsoon.
