Title:

Global fire emissions, fire area burned and air quality data projected using a global earth system model (RCP45/SSP1 and RCP8.5/SSP3)

Author(s):

Val Martin, Maria; Pierce, Jeffery R.; Heald, Colette L.

Publication Year:

2018

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Val Martin, Maria; Pierce, Jeffery R.; Heald, Colette L. 2018. Global fire emissions, fire area burned and air quality data projected using a global earth system model (RCP45/SSP1 and RCP8.5/SSP3). Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. Updated 10 June 2021. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2018-0021

Abstract:

This project provided an integrated assessment of the effects of fires under different future climate and population scenarios on fine particulate matter mass (PM2.5) and ozone (O3) at global scale, with a particular focus on the United States. We employed the global Community Earth System Model (CESM) with the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) climate, anthropogenic emissions and land use, and the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP) population projections (i.e., RCP4.5/SSP1 and RCP8.5/SSP3). Within CESM, we used a complex-based fire parameterization to project future climate- and human-driven fire emissions, and considered landscape, deforestation, agricultural and peat fires. This data publication includes a) fire emissions for main fire species such as black carbon (BC), monoterpenes, carbon monoxide (CO), isoprene, Hydrogen cyanide (HCN), ammonia (NH3), nitric oxide (NO), organic carbon (OC), sulfur dioxide (SO2), etc.; b) area burned from landscape, agriculture, deforestation and peat fires; and c) air quality (PM2.5, BC, OC and O3). All data are at a global scale 0.9 x 1.25 horizontal resolution, with either monthly, daily or hourly resolution at decadal snapshots, i.e. 2000 Baseline (2000-2010), 2050 RCP45 and RCP85 (2040-2050) and 2100 RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 (2090-2100). All simulations were performed with CESM 1.2 with a fire module described in Li et al. (2012 and 2013).

Keywords:

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere; Climate change; Fire; Fire effects on environment; Natural Resource Management & Use; model simulations; fire module; fire area burned; future air quality; Joint Fire Science Program; JFSP; global

Related publications:

• Pierce, Jeffrey R.; Val Martin, Maria; Heald, Colette L. Unpublished material. Estimating the effects of changing climate on fires and consequences for U.S. Air Quality, using a set of global and regional climate models. Joint Fire Science Project Final Report. Project ID: 13-1-01-4. October 2017 (included in data publication download: \Supplements\13-1-01-4_final_report.pdf). https://www.firescience.gov/projects/13-1-01-4/project/13-1-01-4_final_report.pdf
• Ford, Bonne; Val Martin, Maria; Zelasky, Sarah E.; Fischer, Emily V.; Anenberg, Susan C.; Heald, Colette L.; Pierce, Jeffery R. 2018. Future fire impacts on smoke concentrations, visibility, and health in the contiguous United States. GeoHealth. 2(8): 229-247. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GH000144

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