Global Fire Emissions Database: Monthly Burned Area and Emissions, 1997-2004

January 1997 through December 2004 of 1-degree gridded monthly data on burned area, fuel loads, and fire emissions for multiple chemical species. The data set was compiled using satellite data from MODIS, ATSR, and VIRS, and the Carnegie-Ames-Stanford Approach (CASA) biogeochemical model. It was authored by G. J. Collatz and includes emissions from tropical and boreal peatlands.

Use Cases

• Modeling global carbon budgets based on fire emissions of carbon dioxide and other species.
• Analyzing spatial and temporal trends in burned area derived from MODIS and other satellite sensors.
• Estimating contributions of peatland fires to atmospheric methane and particulate matter emissions.
• Studying the C4 fraction of carbon emissions for constructing 13C isotope ratios as mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Covers an 8-year time series from 1997 to 2004.
• Integrates data from multiple satellite sources (MODIS, ATSR, VIRS) and a biogeochemical model (CASA).
• Includes emissions for over a dozen chemical species, such as carbon monoxide, methane, and nitrogen oxides.

Limitations

• Data ends in 2004; temporal coverage is not recent.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

ORNL DAAC (Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center)

Collection Method

Compiled using satellite data and the Carnegie-Ames-Stanford Approach (CASA) biogeochemical model.

Time Range

1997-01-01 to 2004-12-31

Geography

Global