Data from: The effect of climate change on forest fire danger and severity in the Canadian boreal forests for the period 1976–2100
Data files
Nov 17, 2023 version files 7.61 GB
-
fwi26.txt.gz
2.53 GB
-
fwi45.txt.gz
2.54 GB
-
fwi85.txt.gz
2.54 GB
-
msk20231028.txt
232.42 KB
-
README.md
786 B
-
Shape_Canadian_Boreal_Forests.7z
818.44 KB
Abstract
Recent climatic trends have increased forest fire activity in Canada. This study aimed to evaluate how forest fire conditions might evolve across the Canadian borael forests in the future and to inform discussion about the impact of climate change on fire danger and severity.
README
There are 5 files uploaded.
(1) fwi26.txt.gz, RCP26
(2) fwi45.txt.gz, RCP45
(3) fwi85.txt.gz, RCP85
(4) msk20231028.txt
(5) Shape_Canadian_Boreal_Forests.7z
mask20231028.txt is an ascii file covering the Canadian Boreal Forests.
This file can be imported into GisMAP to generate a mask raster.
Shape_Canadian_Boreal_Forests.7z is a compressed shape file cover the
Canadian Boreal Forests.
fwi26.txt.gz, fwi45.txt.gz, and fwi85.txt.gz are the zipped file of FFMC
and DSR daily surfaces. There are 6 fields in the files:
Field 1: row number in the mask file of mask20231028.txt.
Field 2: column number.
Field 3: Years; 1, 2, 3, ... 95 correspoind to 2006, 2007, 2008, ..., 2100.
Field 4: Days; 1, 2, 3, ..., 365 in a year.
Field 5: Daily FFMC values.
Field 6: Daily DSR values.
Methods
There are two data sources used in the manuscript: (1) observational data from meteorological stations across the Canadian boreal forests, (2) simulation data from 4 earth system models of CanESM2, HadGEM2-ES, CSIRO-Mk3.6.0, and MIROC-ESM-CHEM. Both sources are of daily climatic data of precipitation, temperatures, relative humidity, and wiond speed. The data were processed using bias-corrected spatial disaggregation downscaling method.