Africa - Central Africa - Sahel Africa - South Asia - East Siberia Asia - Indonesia Asia - North Central Asia - South Central Asia and China Asia - Southeast Asia and India Asia - West Siberia Australia Europe Global - Land Middle East and Sahara North America - Alaska and Northern Canada North America - Central America North America - Eastern United States North America - Southern Canada North America - Western United States South America - Amazon South America - Southeast South America - Southwest

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.445
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.249	0.306	0.445	0.0116			-0.162	1.02	1.87		0.587	0.424	0.727	0.593	0.551

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.73
CESM3_092H	[-]	1.23	1.24	1.73	0.115	0.000835		-0.502	3.99	2.94		0.609	0.346	0.522	0.695	0.504

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	1.56
CESM3_092H	[-]	2.15	2.21	1.56	0.637	0.0224		0.569	3.47	1.87		0.562	0.354	0.739	0.896	0.581

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.0185
CESM3_092H	[-]	5.64e-05	5.89e-05	0.0185	3.59e-05			-0.0188	0.0495	2.28		0.931	0.761	0.650	4.06e-05	0.620

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.0588
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.0637	0.0603	0.0590	0.0844	0.00376		0.0128	0.147	1.65		0.575	0.389	0.756	0.675	0.557

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.0789
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.138	0.134	0.0790	0.0148	0.00267		0.0508	0.288	1.83		0.649	0.511	0.732	0.474	0.576

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.114
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.239	0.272	0.114	0.0224	0.000121		0.150	0.423	2.47		0.627	0.458	0.595	0.432	0.514

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.176
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.219	0.232	0.176	0.0543	0.00803		0.0449	0.513	1.51		0.498	0.321	0.791	0.627	0.512

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.00902
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.000896	0.00109	0.00902	0.000338			-0.00801	0.0244	2.61		0.938	0.739	0.576	0.0523	0.609

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.546
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.448	0.452	0.547	0.350	0.0584		-0.0940	1.06	1.64		0.621	0.534	0.774	0.682	0.629

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.0219
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.178	0.180	0.0219	0.107	0.0296		0.158	0.276	2.23		0.425	0.274	0.651	0.0828	0.341

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.325
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.419	0.488	0.326	0.0301	0.0127		0.141	0.887	2.10		0.576	0.406	0.678	0.818	0.577

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.0185
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.0411	0.112	0.0185	0.00446	0.00184		0.107	0.184	2.59		0.595	0.467	0.584	0.143	0.451

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.0145
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.00269	0.00283	0.0145	8.49e-05			-0.0119	0.0403	3.16		0.953	0.749	0.462	0.390	0.661

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.0926
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.500	0.527	0.0930	0.234	0.0107		0.372	0.690	1.56		0.411	0.311	0.772	0.108	0.383

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.0293
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.149	0.146	0.0293	0.156	0.00193		0.113	0.206	3.03		0.326	0.247	0.493	0.301	0.323

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.0263
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.0616	0.0628	0.0263	0.0421			0.0349	0.128	2.36		0.626	0.444	0.637	0.379	0.506

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.0294
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.0996	0.108	0.0294	0.0377			0.0812	0.159	1.87		0.460	0.395	0.723	0.313	0.457

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.131
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.354	0.343	0.131	0.138	0.00147		0.209	0.439	1.35		0.416	0.289	0.817	0.436	0.449

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.223
CESM3_092H	[-]	1.43	1.45	0.224	0.179	0.00878		1.18	1.80	1.47		0.221	0.188	0.811	0.190	0.320

	Download Data	Period Mean (original grids) [%]	Model Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (intersection) [%]	Model Period Mean (complement) [%]	Benchmark Period Mean (complement) [%]		Bias [%]	RMSE [%]	Phase Shift [months]		Bias Score [1]	RMSE Score [1]	Seasonal Cycle Score [1]	Spatial Distribution Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
Benchmark	[-]	0.0287
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.212	0.204	0.0287	0.0700	0.00259		0.169	0.269	1.53		0.561	0.404	0.784	0.105	0.452

Africa - Central Africa - Sahel Africa - South Asia - East Siberia Asia - Indonesia Asia - North Central Asia - South Central Asia and China Asia - Southeast Asia and India Asia - West Siberia Australia Europe Global - Land Middle East and Sahara North America - Alaska and Northern Canada North America - Central America North America - Eastern United States North America - Southern Canada North America - Western United States South America - Amazon South America - Southeast South America - Southwest

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.780	0.868		0.414	0.581	0.497

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.685	0.745		0.593	0.692	0.642

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.684	0.767		0.627	0.608	0.617

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.726	0.799		0.369	0.369	0.369

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.725	0.829		0.0253	0.766	0.395

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.705	0.793		0.0452	0.271	0.158

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.736	0.732		0.218	0.266	0.242

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.704	0.771		0.435	0.410	0.423

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.726	0.740		0.378	0.406	0.392

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.602	0.707		0.524	0.532	0.528

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.789	0.716		0.000143	0.0153	0.00774

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.836	0.830		0.564	0.676	0.620

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.674	0.630		5.26e-05	0.000106	7.95e-05

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.792	0.866		0.389	0.429	0.409

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.714	0.716		0.0599	0.00599	0.0330

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.708	0.703		0.0101	0.134	0.0719

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.801	0.748		0.169	0.283	0.226

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.633	0.753		0.245	0.0546	0.150

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.619	0.782		0.306	0.258	0.282

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.649	0.617		0.00105	0.0166	0.00883

	Download Data	Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Hellinger Distance [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Hellinger Distance [1]		Precipitation|GPCPv2.3 Score [1]	SurfaceAirTemperature|CRU4.02 Score [1]	Overall Score [1]
CESM3_092H	[-]	0.700	0.797		0.00265	0.0120	0.00730

Africa - Central Africa - Sahel Africa - South Asia - East Siberia Asia - Indonesia Asia - North Central Asia - South Central Asia and China Asia - Southeast Asia and India Asia - West Siberia Australia Europe Global - Land Middle East and Sahara North America - Alaska and Northern Canada North America - Central America North America - Eastern United States North America - Southern Canada North America - Western United States South America - Amazon South America - Southeast South America - Southwest Temporally integrated period mean Temporally integrated period mean max month Temporally integrated mean phase shift Temporally integrated mean phase shift score Temporally integrated period mean bias Temporally integrated period mean bias score Temporally integrated period mean rmse Temporally integrated period mean rmse score Spatially integrated regional mean cycle Spatially integrated regional mean detrended cycle Spatially integrated regional mean Relationship with Precipitation Relationship with func_Precipitation Relationship with SurfaceAirTemperature Relationship with func_SurfaceAirTemperature

  Title:

GFED version 4.1 burned area fraction with small fires (GFED4.1s)

  Version:

4.1s

  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

  Source:

Satellite (MODIS Terra and Aqua) derived product

  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: %

  Convention:

CF-1.7