Daily average wildfire and fuel wood burning emissions data derived from the CASA-GFED3 model. The NASA Carbon Monitoring System produced this dataset to support policy and management activities, with the last update recorded in 2016. It provides global coverage at a 0.5-degree by 0.5-degree spatial resolution.
Use Cases
- Quantify daily wildfire carbon emissions (FIRE) to calibrate atmospheric transport models.
- Analyze spatial and temporal trends in fuel wood burning emissions (FUEL) for regional climate impact studies.
- Validate satellite-derived fire products using the modeled CASA-GFED3 emissions data.
- Assimilate daily average emissions estimates into carbon flux inversion models to improve source/sink attribution.
Strengths
- Global spatial coverage at a consistent 0.5-degree grid resolution.
- Provides separate daily estimates for wildfire and fuel wood burning sources.
- Data is derived from the established CASA-GFED3 model, a standard in fire emissions research.
Limitations
- Temporal coverage is stale, with the last update occurring in 2016.
- Model-derived estimates contain inherent uncertainties from input data and parameterizations not quantified in the dataset.
- Spatial resolution of 0.5 degrees may be too coarse for local or regional-scale analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC).
- Collection Method
- Model output from the Carnegie-Ames-Stanford-Approach – Global Fire Emissions Database version 3 (CASA-GFED3).
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2016-12-31; update frequency is null.
- Geography
- Global.