Global daily average wildfire and fuel wood burning emissions data derived from the CASA-GFED3 model. The dataset is produced by NASA's Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) and was last updated in December 2017. It provides gridded estimates of fire-related emissions to support carbon flux monitoring.
Use Cases
- Modeling atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations by integrating daily fire emissions (FIRE) data.
- Analyzing regional biomass burning trends using gridded 0.5-degree x 0.5-degree fuel wood burning emissions (FUEL).
- Validating satellite-derived fire products with modeled daily average emissions data.
- Assessing interannual variability in carbon sources by comparing time-series of FIRE and FUEL emissions.
Strengths
- Data is derived from the established CASA-GFED3 model, a standard in fire emissions research.
- Provides global coverage at a consistent 0.5-degree spatial resolution.
- Includes separate estimates for wildfire (FIRE) and fuel wood burning (FUEL) sources.
Limitations
- Temporal coverage is stale, with the last update occurring in 2017.
- Model-derived estimates contain inherent uncertainties not quantified in the provided metadata.
- Specific row count, file size, and sample data are unavailable for assessing dataset volume.
Provenance
- Source
- NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC).
- Collection Method
- Derived from the Carnegie-Ames-Stanford-Approach – Global Fire Emissions Database version 3 (CASA-GFED3) model.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2017-12-31; update frequency is null.
- Geography
- Global coverage.