Historic global biomass burning emissions for CMIP6 (BB4CMIP) based on merging satellite observations with proxies and fire models (1750–2015)

Abstract. Fires have influenced atmospheric composition and climate since the rise of vascular plants, and satellite data have shown the overall global extent of fires. Our knowledge of historic fire emissions has progressively improved over the past decades due mostly to the development of new proxies and the improvement of fire models. Currently, there is a suite of proxies including sedimentary charcoal records, measurements of fire-emitted trace gases and black carbon stored in ice and firn, and visibility observations. These proxies provide opportunities to extrapolate emission estimates back in time based on satellite data starting in 1997, but each proxy has strengths and weaknesses regarding, for…

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  National Science Foundation

  Awards: BCS-1437074, BCS-1436496, 1437074, PICS CNRS 06484, 1436496
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  National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• CN
  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

  Award: 06484
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  Horizon 2020 Framework Programme

  Award: EU H2020
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  European Research Council

  Award: 280061
• SF
  Seventh Framework Programme

  Award: 603542
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  Horizon 2020
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  Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences

  Award: 1436496