Published September 19, 2024
| Version 2024.1.0
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GlobalRx: A global assemblage of regional prescribed burn records
Creators
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Hsu, Alice
(Data manager)1
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Jones, Matthew
(Project leader)1, 2
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Thurgood, Jane1
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Smith, Adam J. P.1, 2
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Carmenta, Rachel1
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Abatzoglou, John3
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Kolden, Crystal4
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Anderson, Liana O.5, 6
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Clarke, Hamish7
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Doerr, Stefan8
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Fernandes, Paulo M.9
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Santín, Cristina10, 8
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Strydom, Tercia11
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Le Quéré, Corinne1, 2
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Ascoli, Davide12
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Baard, Johan11
- Bergius, Niclas13
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Carlsson, Julia13
- Castellnou, Marc14, 15
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Cheney, Chad11
- Elliot, Andy16
- Evans, Jay17
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Guiomar, Nuno18
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Hiers, John19, 20
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Kukavskaya, Elena A.21
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Prat-Guitart, Nuria22
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Rigolot, Eric23
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Roman-Cuesta, Rosa Maria24
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Tanpipat, Veerachai25
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Varner, Morgan20
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Yamashita, Youhei26
- Lopez Valverde, Jose Alejandro27
- Barreto, Ricardo28
- Becerra, Javier29
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Druce, David30
- Falleiro, Rodrigo28
- Macher, Lisa17
- Morris, Dave17
- Park, Jane31
- Robles, César32
- Rücker, Gernot33
- Senra, Francisco28
- Zerr, Emma31
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University of East Anglia
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Tyndall Centre
- 3. University of California Merced
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University of California, Merced
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University of Oxford
- 6. National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN)
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University of Melbourne
- 8. Swansea University
- 9. University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
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Universidad de Oviedo
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South African National Parks
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University of Turin
- 13. Länsstyrelsen i Västmanlands län
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Universitat de Lleida
- 15. Bombers Generalitat Catalunya
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University of Birmingham
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Forestry Commission England
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University of Évora
- 19. United States Geological Survey
- 20. Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy
- 21. Sukachev Institute of Forest of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Pau Costa Foundation
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Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
- 24. European University Institute
- 25. Upper ASEAN Wildland Fire Special Research Unit
- 26. Hokkaido University
- 27. Government of the Principality of Asturias
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Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources
- 29. Government of Andalucia
- 30. Welgevonden Game Reserve
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Parks Canada
- 32. National Forestry Commission of Mexico (CONAFOR)
- 33. Zebris Geo-IT GmbH
Description
| File Name | File Type | Description |
| ERA5_CEMS_Download_and_Resample_Notebooks.zip | ZIP file containing Python Jupyter notebooks | Code used to download and resample ERA5 and CEMS meteorological data from hourly into daily values |
| Geolocate_GlobalRx_Notebooks.zip | ZIP file containing Python Jupyter notebooks | Code used to determine values of meteorological and environmental variables at date and location of each burn record |
| GlobalRx-Figures-Stats.ipynb | Jupyter notebook | Code used to calculate and generate all statistics and figures in the paper |
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GlobalRx_CSV_v2024.1.csv GlobalRx_XLSX_v2024.1.xlsx GlobalRx_SHP_v2024.1.zip |
CSV, Excel, and ZIP file containing shape file and accompanying feature files | GlobalRx dataset. Features of the dataset are described in more detail below.** |
**Description of GlobalRx Dataset:
198,890 records of prescribed burns in 16 countries. In the information below, the name of the variable's column within the dataset is given in parentheses () in code font. For example, the column with the Drought Code data is titled DC.
For each record, the following general information (derived from the original burn records sources) is included, where available:
- Latitude (
Latitude) - Longitude (
Longitude) - Year (
Year) - Month (
Month) - Day (
Day) - Time* (
Time) - DOY (
DOY) - Country (
Country) - State/Province (
State/Province) - Agency/Organisation (
Agency/Organisation) - Burn Objective* (
Burn Objective) - Area Burned (Ha)* (
Area Burned (Ha)) - Data Repository (
Data Repository) - Citation (
Citation)
* Not available for every record
For each record, the following meteorological information (derived from the ERA5 single levels reanalysis product) is also included:
- Daily total accumulated precipitation (
PPT_tot) - Daily minimum and mean relative humidity (
RH_min,RH_mean)* - Daily maximum 2-meter temperature (
T_max) - Daily maximum and mean 10-meter wind speed (
Wind_max,Wind_mean) - Daily minimum boundary layer height (
BLH_min) - C-Haines Index (
CHI)* - Vapor pressure deficit (
VPD)*
* Computed from other ERA5 meteorological variables.
For each record, the following fire weather indices and components (derived from ERA5 fire weather reanalysis product) are also included:
- Canadian fire weather index (
FWI) - Fine fuel moisture code (
FFMC) - Drought moisture code (
DMC) - Drought code (
DC) - McArthur forest fire danger index (
FFDI) - Keetch-Byram drought index (
KBDI) - US burning index (
USBI)
For each record, the following environmental information (derived from various sources, see paper for more information) is also included:
- Ecoregion (Olson et al. 2001) (
Ecoregion (Olson)) - Biome (Olson et al. 2001) (
Biome (Olson)) - Koppen Climate (Beck et al. 2023) (
Koppen Climate) - Topography (Danielson and Gesch 2011) (
Topography) - Fuelbed Classification (GFD-FCCS) (Pettinari and Chuvieco 2016) (
Fuelbed Classification (GFD-FCCS)) - WDPA Name (WDPA 2024) (
WDPA Name) - WDPA Governance (WDPA 2024) (
WDPA Governance) - WDPA Ownership (WDPA 2024) (
WDPA Ownership) - WDPA Designation (WDPA 2024) (
WDPA Designation) - WDPA IUCN Category (WDPA 2024) (
WDPA IUCN Category)
Files
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