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State of Wildfires 2023–2024
Matthew W. Jones
Chantelle A. Burton
Francesca Di Giuseppe
Maria Lucia F. Barbosa
Esther Brambleby
Andrew J. Hartley
Anna Lombardi
Guilherme Mataveli
Joe R. McNorton
Fiona R. Spuler
Jakob B. Wessel
John T. Abatzoglou
Liana O. Anderson
Niels Andela
Sally Archibald
Dolors Armenteras
Eleanor Burke
Rachel Carmenta
Emilio Chuvieco
Hamish Clarke
Stefan H. Doerr
Paulo M. Fernandes
Louis Giglio
Douglas S. Hamilton
Stijn Hantson
Sarah Harris
Piyush Jain
Crystal A. Kolden
Tiina Kurvits
Seppe Lampe
Sarah Meier
Stacey New
Mark Parrington
Morgane M. G. Perron
Yuquan Qu
Natasha S. Ribeiro
Bambang H. Saharjo
Jesus San-Miguel-Ayanz
Jacquelyn K. Shuman
Veerachai Tanpipat
Guido R. van der Werf
Sander Veraverbeke
Gavriil Xanthopoulos
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- Final revised paper (published on 14 Aug 2024)
- Supplement to the final revised paper
- Preprint (discussion started on 13 Jun 2024)
- Supplement to the preprint
Interactive discussion
Status: closed
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CC1: 'Review period', Robert Gieseke, 13 Jun 2024
The discussion has started on 13 Jun 2024, the review period end is listed as open until 04 Jul 2024.
This is only 3 weeks, the peer review overview states that the review period is 5 weeks (https://www.earth-system-science-data.net/peer_review/interactive_review_process.html#opendiscussion).
Given that the paper has 124 pages, is there a specific reason for the shortened review period?Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-218-CC1 -
RC1: 'Comment on essd-2024-218', Piers M. Forster, 21 Jun 2024
This is a very ambitious and exciting project. The authors are to be applauded for the comprehensiveness of what will hopefully become an annual effort. The strengths are the consistent approaches, the regional expert panel assessment, the efforts at attribution for key wildfires based on the COnFire and PoF models and the future outlook. The authors are also open about some of the issues and limitations of the first assessment.
The online assets on Zenodo are really comprehensive and clear. The supplement nicely details extra figures and extended methods which i found useful
I outline some considerations below.
1. The authors state in the abstract that global wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity. I thought this was debated and depends on the definition used? I thought that biomass burning has been decreasing in topical regions and some longer term datasets showed more fires in past decades going back further than the last 20 years, the focus of these datasets. I think in this first paper it would be really worthwhile to address this debate head on as I expect the paper to be widely read.
2. Related to 1, I wondered whether any global indexes could be perhaps be presented in a key figure and discussed. Although, I understand the regional focus.
3. The expert panel is a really nice idea, it might be nice to have some more information on how it made its decisions and what data it used.
4. Section 3, it would be useful to specify the averaging period used for "higher than average" statements etc.
5. Table 2 repeats Africa
6. Section 4 might additionally briefly discuss the role of PM2.5 and ozone from fires on ecosystem health?
e.g. Tian, C. G., Yue, X., Zhu, J., Liao, H., Yang, Y., Lei, Y. D., Zhou, X. Y., Zhou, H., Ma, Y., and Cao, Y.: Fire-climate interactions through the aerosol radiative effect in a global chemistry-climate-vegetation model, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22, 12353-12366, 10.5194/acp-22-12353-2022, 2022.
Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-218-RC1 - RC2: 'Comment on essd-2024-218', David Carlson, 26 Jun 2024
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RC3: 'Comment on essd-2024-218', Marco Turco, 27 Jun 2024
Dear Authors,
Firstly, I would like to extend my warm congratulations on your comprehensive assessment of the state of extreme wildfires for 2023-24. This manuscript represents a significant and valuable contribution to the understanding of wildfires, and I believe it holds great potential for impactful publication after addressing a few minor revisions and additions. You can find my detailed comments attached to this review. - AC1: 'Comment on essd-2024-218', Matthew Jones, 24 Jul 2024