Future wildfires hazard dataset
Overview
A global dataset at 0.1° degrees resolution of three wildfires indicators from five climate models under three Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) scenarios from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sith Assessment report (AR6). The time resolution is annual from 1981 to 2100.
Specifications
| Specification | Description |
| Experiment | CMIP6 |
| Scenarios | Shared Socioeconomic Pathways SSP5-8.5, SSP2-4.5 and SSP1-2.6. |
| Climate Models | The 5 models selected by the ISIMIP initiative: IPSL-CM6A-LR GFDL-ESM4, UKESM1-0-LL MPI-ESM1-2-HR, MRI-ESM2-0. |
| Spatial Resolution | 0.1° x 0.1° Global |
| Temporal resolution | Annual from 1981 to 2100 |
| Indicators | The wildfires danger indicators are based on the Canadian Fire Weather System. – Fire Weather Index: A measure of the general wildfire intensity. and considered as the general index of fire danger. A numeric rating defined in the range [0, +∞]. – Fire Extreme Danger days: the occurrence of fire days in a year with a FWI above the 99th percentile. – Fire season length: the occurrence of fire days in a year with a FWI above half the 99th percentile. |
| Format | Netcdf |
Supplementary information
The wildfires hazard is evaluated with wildfire danger indicators based on the Fire Weather Index (FWI), a fire weather indicator as defined by the Canadian Fire Weather System. The FWI is central to the three indicators of the dataset as one is the FWI annual average and the two others are frequency indicators calculated from daily values of the FWI. For more check the following article:
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