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Carbon emissions from wildland fires

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CO2 emissions in tonnes from a northern Texas fire in 2001 estimated by the Wildland Fire Emissions Information System (WFEIS v0.5).
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CO2 emissions in tonnes from a northern Texas fire in 2001 estimated by the Wildland Fire Emissions Information System (WFEIS v0.5).

Annual wildland fire emissions (WFEIS v0.5) for Conterminous US and Alaska, 2001-2013

This data set contains annual modeled estimates of wildland fire emissions at 0.01 degree (~1-km) spatial resolution from the Wildland Fire Emissions Information System (WFEIS v0.5) for the conterminous U.S. (CONUS) and Alaska for 2001 through 2013. WFEIS is a web-based tool that provides resources to quantify emissions from past fires and output results as spatial data files (French et al., 2014). The data set includes emissions estimates of carbon (C), carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), other non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC), and particulate matter (PM) as well as estimates of above-ground biomass, total fuel availability, and consumption estimates.

Data Acknowledgements
Data authors: French, N.H.F., D. McKenzie, T. Erickson, B. Koziol, M. Billmire, K.A. Endsley, N.K.Y. Scheinerman, L. Jenkins, M.E. Miller, R. Ottmar, and S. Prichard.
Data Set DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1306
Data center: ORNL DAAC
Sponsor: NASA EOSDIS

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CO2 emissions in tonnes from a northern Texas fire in 2001 estimated by the Wildland Fire Emissions Information System (WFEIS v0.5).