N: 80 S: 40 E: 180 W: -180
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This data set provides products characterizing immediate and longer-term ecosystem changes from fires in the circumpolar boreal forests of Northern Eurasia and North America. The data include fire intensity (fire radiative power; FRP), increase in spring albedo, decrease in tree cover, normalized burn ratio, normalized difference vegetation index, and land surface temperature, as well as three derived fire metrics: crown scorch, vegetation destruction, and fire-induced tree mortality. Longer-term changes are indicated by mean albedo determined 5-12 years after fires, mean percent decrease in tree cover 5-7 years after fires, and mean annual burned percentage. The data cover the period 2001-2013 and are provided at quarter, half, and one degree resolutions for boreal forests within the 40 to 80 degree North circumpolar region. The data were derived from a variety of sources including MODIS products, climate reanalysis data, and forest inventories. A data file with identified boreal forest area (pixels), as defined by climate and vegetation type, and a file with the defined North American and Eurasian boreal forest study regions are included.
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| Title | Year Sort ascending | Author | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual and Seasonal Patterns of Burned Area Products in Arctic-Boreal North America and Russia for 20012020 | Clelland, Andrew A., Marshall, Gareth J., Baxter, Robert, Potter, Stefano, Talucci, Anna C., Rady, Joshua M., Genet, Helene, Rogers, Brendan M., Natali, Susan M. | Reflectance, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Burned Area, Emissions, Forests, Carbon, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Canopy Characteristics, Evergreen Vegetation, Crown, Deciduous Vegetation, Leaf Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Reforestation, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulates, Hydrogen Cyanide, Non-methane Hydrocarbons/Volatile Organic Compounds, Particulate Matter, Nitrogen Oxides, Sulfur Dioxide, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Fire Dynamics, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Albedo | |
| Simulating dynamic fire regime and vegetation change in a warming | Williams, Neil G., Lucash, Melissa S., Ouellette, Marc R., Brussel, Thomas, Gustafson, Eric J., Weiss, Shelby A., Sturtevant, Brian R., Schepaschenko, Dmitry G., Shvidenko, Anatoly Z. | Fire Dynamics, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Albedo, Forests, Burned Area, Crown |