Apps

FIRECAM Tool

The FIRECAM Tool allows end-users to diagnose and explore regional differences in fire emissions from five global fire emissions inventories:

• 1. Global Fire Emissions Database (GFEDv4s) | van der Werf et al. (2017, ESSD)

  2. Fire Inventory from NCAR (FINNv1.5) | Wiedinmyer et al. (2011, GMD)

  3. Global Fire Assimilation System (GFASv1.2) | Kaiser et al. (2012, Biogeosci.)

  4. Quick Fire Emissions Dataset (QFEDv2.5r1) | Darmenov and da Silva (2013, NASA Technical Report)

  5. Fire Energetics and Emissions Research (FEERv1.0-G1.2) | Ichoku and Ellison (2014, ACP)

SMOKE-FIRECAM Tool

The SMOKE-FIRECAM Tool is a simplified version of the SMOKE Policy Tool that explores how the modeled impact of Indonesian fires on smoke exposure in Equatorial Asia differs in using five different fire emissions inventories.

Ancillary Apps

1. GFEDv4s Explorer: Explore GFEDv4s emissions (1997-2019) for burned area and all available chemical species, partitioned by land use/land cover

   • Note: Burned area from small fires is approximate based on the small fire fraction for emissions

2. GFEDv4s Animated Burned Area: Visualize the seasonality of GFEDv4s burned area.

   • Note: GFEDv4s BA is averaged into monthly means. Please wait until all the images load (check the layer list in the upper-right hand corner of the map) before clicking 'Play.'

3. GFEDv4s Explorer with Andreae (2019) EFs: Explore how the Andreae (2019, ACP) emissions factors updates affect GFEDv4s emissions (1997-2019) for select chemical species

4. FIRMS Explorer: Plot daily timeseries of near-real-time active fire counts from FIRMS/MODIS by region

• April 2023: updated FIRECAM, SMOKE-FIRECAM, and GFEDv4s apps with 2022 emissions

• February 2022: updated FIRECAM, SMOKE-FIRECAM, and GFEDv4s apps with 2021 emissions

• July 2021: updated FIRECAM, SMOKE-FIRECAM, and GFEDv4s apps with 2020 emissions

• February 2021: re-uploaded FINNv1.5 for 2018 and 2019 based on the most recent version of the annual text files; note that 2019 emissions were higher in the near-real-time files used before

• November 2020: added url support for saving the app state, cumulative sum plot, and pan map option in FIRMS app

• August 2020: added FIRMS ancillary app

• July 2020: added daily timeseries for GFEDv4s app

• April 2020: updated FIRECAM and SMOKE-FIRECAM apps with 2019 emissions

• January 2020: updated ancillary GFEDv4s apps with preliminary 2019 emissions

• October 2019: fixed FIRECAM emissions layers with 0.5° x 0.5° reprojection, updated FINNv1.5 emissions for 2016 with revised files from NCAR, added 2017-2018 emissions for all inventories; updated FIRECAM exports to allow user-defined polygons; added SMOKE-FIRECAM Tool

• September 2019: added "Draw" option to FIRECAM and GFEDv4s apps; added GFEDv4s monthly averaged burned area animation app and GFEDv4s with Andreae (2019) EFs ancillary apps

• February 2019: added data download/processing code under the "fire_inv" subfolder; added "Country/Sub-Region" and "Pixel" options to FIRECAM app; created ancillary app for GFEDv4s (GFEDv4s Explorer)

• March 2019: added "Country/Sub-Region" and "Pixel" options to FIRECAM exports

• May 2019: added R/EE code for calculating the relative fire confidence metrics under the "fire_metrics" subfolder; added "Global" and "Custom" options to FIRECAM, GFEDv4s apps