Code and data for data processing and figure generation for the publication entitled "Emissions from Burned Structures in Wildfires across the Conterminous United States: A Significant Yet Unaccounted Source of Air Pollution"

Emissions from Burned Structures in Wildfires across the Conterminous United States (FINN-WUI) — Figures & Sample Data
Corresponding author: [Wenfu Tang, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO, USA, wenfut@ucar.edu]
Version: R1 (revision to reviewers)

This archive provides sample data and reproducibility materials to support reviewer assessment of the FINN-WUI workflow and to regenerate the main figures in the manuscript. It contains a subset of the full datasets used in the study.

Please note that this archive includes only the data directly underlying the manuscript figures.

Access details for the complete raw datasets are provided in the Data Availability section of the paper.

The FINN-WUI product is available through a different repository.

Note that Figure 7 is moved to supplement (Now Figure S8).

The code is written in Matlab R2024b.

Folder structure (relative paths inside the zip):

1. figure1_map

• NEW_figure3_map_plotA.m (code to plot Figure 1A)
• NEW_figure3_map_plotB.m (code to plot Figure 1B)
• NEW_figure3_map_plotC.m (code to plot Figure 1C)
• NEW_figure3_map_plotD.m (code to plot Figure 1D)
• colormap_colorblindfriendly.mat (input data)
• STEP1_FINN2.5_gridded_0.25.mat (input data)
• STEP1_ICS_209_filtered_2020.mat (input data)
• STEP3_the_fuel_burned_in_t_2020.mat (input data)
• cb_2018_us_state_20m (folder containing shapefile used to plot maps; the shapefile cb_2018_us_state_20m is a U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line product (public domain). It is redistributed here for reproducibility. Original data are available at: https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2018/shp/cb_2018_us_state_20m.zip)

2. figure2_bar_plot

• NEW_with_ratios_barplot_by_states_and_individual_fire.m (code to plot Figure 2 )
• colormap_colorblindfriendly.mat (input data)
• compare_to_FINN2.5_by_states (folder containing input data)
• GFED5_burned_area_m2_by_state_all_years.mat (input data)
• STEP1_structure_CO_emis_in_g.mat (input data)
• temp (folder containing input data)

3. figure3_timeseries

• timeseries_plot_A_annual.m (code to plot Figure 3A)
• timeseries_plotB_seasonlity_of_structure_burning.m (code to plot Figure 3B)
• colormap_colorblindfriendly.mat (input data)
• compare_to_FINN2.5_by_states (folder containing input data)
• temp (folder containing input data)

4. figure4_compare_with_EPA_anthro

• PanelA_bar_plot_all_species.m (code to plot Figure 4A)
• PanelB_R1_NEW_bar_plot_compare_hcl_by_states.m (code to plot Figure 4B)
• PanelC_R1_NEW_bar_plot_compare_pb_by_states.m (code to plot Figure 4C)
• colormap_colorblindfriendly.mat (input data)
• compare_to_EPA_anthro (folder containing input data)
• NEW_Table_structue_burn_emis_table.xlsx (input data)

5. figure5_landcover

• R1_barplot_merge_catagory_and_all_years.m (code to plot Figure 5)
• colorblind_friendly_14_colors.mat (input data)
• STEP3_merged_LC_and_fire_info_all_years.mat (input data)

6. figure6_FWI

• scatter_plot_monthly_FWI.m (code to plot Figure 6)
• colorblind_friendly_14_colors.mat (input data)
• regional_fwi_byMonth_StructureDamage.mat (input data)
• regional_fwi_byMonth.mat (input data)

7. figure7_methodology_demo

• fireshape_demo.m (code to plot Figure 7)
• 2018_fire_number10_combust_info.mat (input data)
• STEP1_ICS_209_filtered_2018.mat (input data)
• STEP2_matched_COMBUST_data_2018.mat (input data)

To execute these code to produce a figure, go to the folder for the figure, open Matlab, run('.m') where '.m' is the file name of the matlab code. The code should take less than 1 minutes to run.

Figures will be produced in the MATLAB active window but are not saved automatically.