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Global Fire Emissions Database version 5 (GFED5)

  • Guido van der Werf (Creator)
  • James Randerson (Creator)
  • Dave van Wees (Creator)
  • Yang Chen (University of California at Irvine) (Creator)
  • Louis Giglio (Creator)
  • Joanne Hall (Creator)
  • Roland Vernooij (Creator)
  • Mingquan Mu (Creator)
  • Samiha Binte Shahid (Creator)
  • Kelley Barsanti (Creator)
  • Robert Yokelson (Creator)
  • Douglas Morton (Creator)

Dataset

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


 
Date made available1 Oct 2025
PublisherWageningen University & Research
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  • 1 Comment/Letter to the editor

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