Projected fire cycle (yrs) for Canada at a 0.25 degree resolution

These rasters represent the projection of future fire cycles for Canada at a 0.25 degree of resolution. The data was produced in three steps:

1. Future fire cycles were obtain by projecting annual area burned as in Boulanger et al. (2014) (https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/cjfr-2013-0372) at the homogeneous fire regime zone scale. Models used here were improved from those used in Boulanger et al. (2014). Projections were conducted for specific time periods (baseline, 2011-2040, 2041-2070 and 2071-2100) under specific anthropogenic climate forcing scenarios (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5). Three Earth System models were used i.e., CanESM2, HadGEM2-ES and MIROC-ESM-CHEM.
2. Values obtained at the homogeneous fire regime zone scale were further "downscaled" at a 250m resolution according to vegetation type (cover x age class) following Bernier et al. (2016) (https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/7/8/157) using forest attributes of 2011 as assessed in Beaudoin et al. (2014) (https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjfr-2013-0401).    
3. Values obtained at a 250m resolution were averaged in 0.25x0.25 degree cells.