The Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED) "combines 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."
Key Strengths:
- Gridded "high resolution"
Years of Record
1996/12 to 2015/11
Formats
Timestep
Daily | Monthly | Annual
Data Time Period Extended?
yes, data set is extended
Domain
Spatial Resolution
720x1440, 0.25
Missing Data Flag
spatially complete
Vertical Levels
Input Data
satellite
Data Access: Please Cite data sources, following the data providers' instructions.
- Global Fire WEather Database (GFWED)
- Global Fire Emissions Database
- NASA GFED: tp to ftp.nccs.nasa.gov. Be sure your ftp client is in "passive mode". Login as user: GlobalFWI
- Giglio, L. et al (2013): Analysis of daily, monthly, and annual burned area using the fourth-generation global fire emissions database (GFED4) J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci., 118, 317–328
- Randerson et al (2012): Global burned area and biomass burning emissions from small fires, J. Geophys. Res., 117, G04012
- van der Werf et al (2010): Global fire emissions and the contribution of deforestation, savanna, forest, agricultural, and peat fires (1997–2009), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 11707-11735
- Akagi et al (2011): Emission factors for open and domestic biomass burning for use in atmospheric models, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 4039-4072
- Andre, M.O. and P. Merlet (2001): Emission of trace gases and aerosols from biomass burning, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 15(4), 955–966
- Field, R.D., A.C. Spessa, N.A. Aziz, A. Camia, A. Cantin, R. Carr, W.J. de Groot, A.J. Dowdy, M.D. Flannigan, K. Manomaiphiboon, F. Pappenberger, V. Tanpipat, and X. Wang, 2015: : Development of a global fire weather database. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sc
