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Open fires represent one of the most influent events on ecosystems, climate, and human health. Their study is a challenging research topic, set to lead to a better understanding of their impact.
The ITINERIS project allowed us to empower and strengthen the observation capability of the main chemical-physical parameters involved in open fire events, via the implementation of new instruments and methodologies. The purpose of this presentation is showing some results obtained, during the project ITINERIS, as synthesis of a comprehensive elaboration and evaluation of the most important parameters influencing climate such as combustion outputs from open fire phenomena and their intercorrelation to identify local and long range important events influencing our observational site.
In this work, we describe two types of datasets released by our research team, accounting for: wind speed and direction profiles useful for possible direction of detected fire products, stable carbon isotope measurements of carbon dioxide (δ13C-CO2) and methane (δ13C-CH4) to differentiate the nature of mass-burning, and summer 2025 ITINERIS open fire campaign (in preparation).
The existing long-term observations at LMT allow us to determine a new methodology for “blind” background greenhouse gases determination to be applied in different site (e.g. coastal, rural), as base of background values meant to isolate peaks and better identify outliers, and data exceeding select thresholds. Via these filters, it is possible to identify pollution events.
Integrated methodologies for forest fire detection applied at the Lamezia Terme (LMT) site are also applicable to other sites, with minimal adjustments depending on the specific characteristics of each site these methodologies are applied to.
