Global Biomass Burning Emissions

CMIP6 Forcing Datasets Summary: http://goo.gl/r8up31

Preparation

Files to download are selected from https://esgf-data.dkrz.de/search/esgf-dkrz/, selecting VUA as "Institution ID" and the following variables:

• BC (1)
• CH4 (1)
• CO (1)
• N2O (1)
• NH3 (1)
• NMVOC (1)
• NOx (1)
• OC (1)
• SO2 (1)
• gridcellarea (1)

The result list with direct HTTP links and checksums is stored in files.txt.

To download the files into raw_data run make download. This requires around 11 GB of disk space.

Downloaded files are processed in scripts/process.py and saved as annual values in data/global-biomass-burning-emissions.csv.

Run make to generate the CSV file from the downloaded files.

License

This Data Package is based on data from

VUA 1.2 Global Biomass Burning Emissions prepared for input4MIPs

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands

Biomass burning emissions data produced by VUA is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution "Share Alike" 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The data producers and data providers make no warranty, either express or implied, including but not limited to, warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. All liabilities arising from the supply of the information (including any liability arising in negligence) are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.

GFED4s data notes for Citation:

Please mention you used fire emissions from the Global Fire Emissions Database version 4 (GFED4s) described in van der Werf et al. (2017). When fires are a key focus of your paper please also include a citation to the original burned area paper (Giglio et al., 2013) boosted by small fire burned area following Randerson et al. (2012) .