Data Information

Institutions:: VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Earth and Climate Cluster, Netherlands; Goddard Space Flight Center, USA; University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, USA

History:: 2019-03-13: downloaded source from https://www.geo.vu.nl/~gwerf/GFED/GFED4/; 2019-05-07: converted to netCDF with https://github.com/mmu2019/Datasets/blob/master/read-ba-gfed.py

References:: van der Werf, G.R., J.T. Randerson, L. Giglio, T.T. van Leeuwen, Y. Chen, B.M. Rogers, M. Mu, M.J.E. van Marle, D.C. Morton, G.J. Collatz, R.J. Yokelson, and P.S. Kasibhatla (2017), Global fire emissions estimates during 1997-2016, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9, 697-720, doi:10.5194/essd-9-697-2017; Giglio, L., J.T. Randerson and G.R. van der Werf (2013), Analysis of daily, monthly, and annual burned area using the fourth-generation global fire emissions database (GFED4), J. of Geophys. Res.-Biogeosciences, 118(1), 317-328, doi:10.1002/jgrg.20042; Randerson, J.T., Y. Chen, G.R. van der Werf, B.M. Rogers and D.C. Morton (2012), Global burned area and biomass burning emissions from small fires, J. of Geophys. Res.-Biogeosciences, 117(G4), G04012, doi:10.1029/2012JG002128

Comments:: time_period: 1997-01 through 2016-12; original_temporal_resolution: monthly; original_spatial_resolution: 0.25 degree; original_units: fractions; final_temporal_resolution: monthly; final_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree; final_units: %

Mean State