Carbon Emissions from Fires: 2003 - 2018

  • Released Thursday, July 11, 2019
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This visualization shows carbon emissions from fires from January 1, 2003 through December 31, 2018. The colorbar reflects the quantity of carbon emitted.

This visualization is identical to the one above, without the overlay of the date and colorbar.

The date and colorbar overlay with transparency

The date and colorbar overlay with transparency

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This page was originally published on Thursday, July 11, 2019.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 12:13 AM EST.

Papers used in this visualization

M. Mu, J.T. Randerson, G.R. van der Werf, L. Giglio, P. Kasibhatla, D. Morton, G.J. Collatz, R.S. DeFries, E.J. Hyer, E.M. Prins, D.W.T. Griffith, D. Wunch, G.C. Toon, V. Sherlock, P.O. Wennberg, Daily and 3-hourly variability in global fire emissions and consequences for atmospheric model predictions of carbon monoxide. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 116 (2011), p. D24303

Datasets used in this visualization

  • GFED4s (Global Fire Emissions Database, Version 4.1)

    ID: 1050
    Type: Data Compilation

    This fourth version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED4s) provides monthly burned area, fire carbon (C) and dry matter (DM) emissions, and the contribution of different fire types to these emissions in order to calculate trace gas and aerosol emissions using emission factors.

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