Published October 1, 2025
| Version v1
Dataset
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Global Fire Emissions Database version 5 (GFED5)
Authors/Creators
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Wageningen University & Research
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University of California, Irvine
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Zero Carbon Hub
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University of Maryland
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University of California, Riverside
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NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
- 7. University Of Montana
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Goddard Space Flight Center
Description
Data and code accompanying the publication "Landscape fire emissions from the 5th version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5)" published in Scientific Data.
Updates for recent years as well as ancillary data can be retrieved (sftp) via https://www.globalfiredata.org. This repository contains the following files:
- GFED5.1_monthly.zip contains monthly burned area and trace gas emissions (1997-2022)
- GFED5.1_daily.zip contains daily trace gas emissions (1997-2022)
- GFED5.1_ecosystem.zip contains monthly burned area and carbon emissions, including a breakdown in categories (2002-2022)
- GFED5.1_code.zip contain Python scripts used to construct the netcdf files, figures, and tables in the publication above