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Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 2008
The interannual variability of fire activity has been studied without an explicit investigation of a suitable starting month for yearly calculations. Sensitivity analysis of 37 months of global MODIS active fire detections indicates that a 1-month change in the start of the fire year definition can lead, in the worst case, to a difference of over 6% and over 45% in global and subcontinental scale annual fire totals, respectively. Optimal starting months for analyses of global and subcontinental fire interannual variability are described. The research indicates that a fire year starting in March provides an optimal definition for annual global fire activity.
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Citation: Boschetti, Luigi; Roy, David P. 2008. Defining a fire year for reporting and analysis of global interannual fire variability. Journal of Geophysical Research 113(G3):G03020.
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- active fire detection
- fire activity
- fire frequency
- fire year
- interannual fire variability
- MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
- remote sensing
- wildfires
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