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project_abstract
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| Freely available from http://www.globalfiredata.org/index.html.
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| Fires are an important source of atmospheric trace gases and aerosols and they are the most important disturbance agent on a global scale. In addition, deforestation and tropical peatland fires and areas that see an increase in the frequency of fires add to the build-up of atmospheric CO2.
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| We have combined satellite information on fire activity and vegetation productivity to estimate gridded monthly burned area and fire emissions, as well as scalars that can be used to calculate higher temporal resolution emissions. Most of the resulting datasets are downloadable from this website for use in large-scale atmospheric and biogeochemical studies. The core datasets are:
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| Burned area from Giglio et al. (2013)
| Burned area from “small” fires based on active fire detections outside the burned area maps detailed in Randerson et al. (2012) and updates in van der Werf et al. (2017)
| Carbon and dry matter emissions from van der Werf et al. (2017), manuscript under review
| Fractional contributions of various fire types to total emissions
| List of emission factors to compute trace gas and aerosol emissions based on Akagi et al. (2011) as well as Andreae and Merlet (2001) with updates provided in 2013 by M.O. Andreae
| The current version is 4 which has a spatial resolution of 0.25 degrees and is available from 1997 onwards. The most recent year is 2016 but monthly emissions are available for the period after 2016 (article in review).
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