Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-867-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-867-2024
Data description paper
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09 Feb 2024
Data description paper |  | 09 Feb 2024

GloCAB: global cropland burned area from mid-2002 to 2020

Joanne V. Hall, Fernanda Argueta, Maria Zubkova, Yang Chen, James T. Randerson, and Louis Giglio

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GloCAB: Global Cropland Area Burned Joanne Hall et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7860452

Short summary
Crop-residue burning is a widespread practice often occurring close to population centers. Its recurrent nature requires accurate mapping of the area burned – a key input into air quality models. Unlike larger fires, crop fires require a specific burned area (BA) methodology, which to date has been ignored in global BA datasets. Our global cropland-focused BA product found a significant increase in global cropland BA (81 Mha annual average) compared to the widely used MCD64A1 (32 Mha).
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