NASA NACP Project: Hourly CO2 Emissions and Fire Boundaries for North America

2012-2017 hourly fossil fuel CO2 emissions at 1-km resolution for the coterminous United States, covering ten source sectors. Fire boundary polygons for the circumpolar region from 1986 to 2020, attributed with burn ratios and ecoregions. The dataset also includes atmospheric CO2 measurements and model footprints for Boston, MA, from September 2013 to December 2014.

Use Cases

• Modeling urban carbon fluxes based on hourly, sector-specific emissions data.
• Analyzing fire severity and recovery patterns based on normalized burn ratio (NBR) attributes.
• Estimating regional CO2 emissions using atmospheric measurements and HYSPLIT model footprints.
• Mapping spatial and temporal trends in fossil fuel combustion across ten economic sectors.

Strengths

• Hourly temporal resolution and 1-km spatial grid for emissions data.
• Fire data spans up to 34 years (1986-2020) for North America.
• Emissions are categorized into ten distinct source sectors for detailed analysis.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

NASA NACP Project via aws_open_data.

Collection Method

Emissions from the ACES model, fire boundaries processed via Google Earth Engine, atmospheric measurements combined with HYSPLIT modeling.

Time Range

Emissions: 2012-2017. Fires: 1986-2020 (NA), 2003-2016 (Europe/Asia). Atmospheric: Sep 2013-Dec 2014.

Freshness

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Geography

CONUS for emissions, circumpolar region for fires, Boston area for atmospheric measurements.