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- Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI)
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Fire weather indices are used to quantify the meteorological conditions that can lead to fire ignition and spread. They are used to communicate fire danger levels to emergency and fire fighting management, as well as the public on short time scales, and also for understanding long-term changes in fire regimes or wildfire risk. Several fire weather indices exist, each…
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- CHIRPS: Climate Hazards InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (version 2)
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Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) is a quasi-global (50S - 50N), land-only rainfall dataset with a range of temporal and spatial resolutions depending on the region and the time period. Data can be found at 0.05 deg or 0.1 deg resolution, and can be found at 6-hourly to seasonal time scales. These resolutions are regionally dependent…
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