GEOS-Carb CASA-GFED: Daily Global Fire and Fuel Emissions at 0.5 Degree Resolution

Daily average wildfire and fuel wood burning emissions derived from the CASA-GFED3 model. The NASA Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) uses satellite observations and modeling to characterize global carbon sources and sinks. This product supports national and international policy, regulatory, and management activities.

Use Cases

• Modeling atmospheric carbon concentrations based on daily fire emissions data.
• Assessing regional carbon source contributions based on wildfire and fuel burning activity.
• Informing climate policy and management activities based on NASA's carbon monitoring outputs.
• Validating other carbon flux models based on the CASA-GFED3 methodology.

Strengths

• Data is produced by the NASA Carbon Monitoring System, an authoritative source.
• Provides daily temporal resolution for emissions tracking.
• Covers global spatial extent with a 0.5-degree grid resolution.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Derived from the Carnegie-Ames-Stanford-Approach – Global Fire Emissions Database version 3 (CASA-GFED3) model using NASA satellite observations.

Time Range

Daily averages.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 02:31:25.517369; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global coverage at 0.5 degree x 0.5 degree resolution.