FireMAFS (Fire Modelling and Forecasting System)

• Published by: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
• Last updated: 19 June 2018
• Topic: Environment
• Licence: Other Licence ; View licence information

Summary

FireMAFS was led by Prof Martin Wooster (Kings College, London) as part of QUEST Theme 3 (Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System) project.

This dataset collection contains the MODIS Land Cover Type product multiple classification schemes, which describe land cover properties derived from observations spanning a year’s input of Terra and Aqua data. The data are stored in a 10 arc minute grid.

Fire was the most important disturbance agent worldwide in terms of area and variety of biomass affected, a major mechanism by which carbon is transferred from the land to the atmosphere, and a globally significant source of aerosols and many trace gas species. Despite such clear coupling between fire, climate, and vegetation, fire was not modelled as an interactive component of the climate/earth systems models of full complexity or intermediate complexity, that are used to model terrestrial ecosystem processes principally for simulating CO2 exchanges.

The objective of FireMAFS was to resolve these limitations by developing a robust method to forecast fire activity (fire 'danger' indices, ignition probabilities, burnt area, fire intensity etc), via a process-based model of fire-vegetation interactions, tested, improved, and constrained. This used a state-of-the-art EO data products and driven by seasonal weather forecasts issued with many months lead-time.

Much of the activity of FireMAFS was shaped by the research and technical priorities of QUESTESM (earth system model). Key activities included the progressive development of the JULES-ED and SPITFIRE submodels. Fire is now very well represented in QESM (Quest Earth System Model), making progress towards a modelling capability for fire risk forecasting in the context of global change.

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
QUEST report	N/A	19 June 2018	Not available
FireMAFS: Fire Modelling and Forecasting System	N/A	19 June 2018	Not available
Dataset Homepage	N/A	19 June 2018	Not available

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2017-11-02
• Access contraints: Restricted; Access groups: quest-res; Licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/quest.pdf
• Harvest GUID: 67afe8bb533652ee15c37f5a6474ebbc
• Extent: Latitude: 89.975° to -89.91667°
• Extent: Longitude: -179.9167° to 179.917°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
• Dataset reference date: 2008-12-10T03:15:42 (publication)
• Dataset reference date: 2008-12-10T03:15:42 (creation)
• Frequency of update: asNeeded
• Responsible party: (ceda_officer, author); British Atmospheric Data Centre (publisher, point_of_contact, metadata_owner, curator, custodian, distributer); Polaris House (author); King's College London (author)
• ISO 19139 resource type: series
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
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Restricted; Access groups: quest-res; Licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/quest.pdf