Dr. Stefania Korontzi

 
Education

Ph.D.   Geography, University of Maryland, 2004
M.Sc.   Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, 1997
B.Sc.   Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1994

Research Interests

• Fire emissions modeling
• Satellite fire monitoring
• Tropospheric Chemistry

Modeling of seasonal pyrogenic emissions from southern African savanna fires using MODIS Land products.

Representative Papers

Korontzi S. (2005).

Seasonal patterns in biomass burning emissions from southern African vegetation fires for the year 2000,
Global Change Biology, 11, 1680-1700.

Korontzi, S., D. P. Roy, C. O. Justice, and D. E. Ward (2004).

Modeling and sensitivity analysis of fire emissions in southern Africa during SAFARI 2000,
Remote Sensing of Environment, 92(2), 255-275.

Korontzi, S., D. E. Ward, R. A. Susott, R. J. Yokelson, C. O. Justice, P. V. Hobbs, E. Smithwick, and W. M. Hao (2003).

Seasonal variation and ecosystem dependence of emission factors for selected trace gases and PM2.5 for southern African savanna fires,
Journal of Geophysical Research, 108 (D24), 4758, doi:10.1029/2003JD003730.

Korontzi, S., C.O. Justice and R. J. Scholes (2003).

The influence of timing and spatial extent of vegetation fires in southern Africa on atmospheric emissions,
Journal of Arid Environments, 54(2), 395-404.

Hély, C., P. Dowty, S. Alleaume, K. Caylor, S. Korontzi, R. J. Swap, H. H. Shugart, and C. O. Justice (2003).

Regional fuel load for two climatically contrasting years in southern Africa,
Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(D13), 8475, doi:10.1029/2002JD002341.

Kaufman, Y., C. Ichoku, L. Giglio, S. Korontzi, D. A. Chu, W. M.Hao, R. -R Li, and C. O. Justice (2002).

Fire and smoke observed from the Earth Observing System MODIS instrument - products, validation, and operational use,
International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24, 1765-1781.

Justice, C.O., L. Giglio, S. Korontzi, J. Owens, J. T. Morisette, D. Roy, J. Descloitres, S. Alleaume, F. Petitcolin, and Y. Kaufman (2002).

The MODIS fire products,
Remote Sensing of Environment, 83, 244-262.

Justice, C.O. and S. Korontzi (2001).

A review of the status of satellite fire monitoring and the requirements for global environmental change research,
Global and Regional Wildfire Monitoring from Space: Planning a Coordinated International Effort,
edited by F.J. Ahern, J. Goldammer, and C.O. Justice, (The Hague: SPB Academic Publishing), pp.1-18.