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
 | 
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

Related authors

Multi-decadal trends and variability in burned area from the fifth version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5)
Yang Chen, Joanne Hall, Dave van Wees, Niels Andela, Stijn Hantson, Louis Giglio, Guido R. van der Werf, Douglas C. Morton, and James T. Randerson
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 5227–5259, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-5227-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-5227-2023, 2023
Short summary

Related subject area

Domain: ESSD – Land | Subject: Energy and Emissions
Meteorological, snow and soil data, CO2, water and energy fluxes from a low-Arctic valley of Northern Quebec
Florent Domine, Denis Sarrazin, Daniel F. Nadeau, Georg Lackner, and Maria Belke-Brea
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 16, 1523–1541, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1523-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1523-2024, 2024
Short summary
Systematically tracking the hourly progression of large wildfires using GOES satellite observations
Tianjia Liu, James T. Randerson, Yang Chen, Douglas C. Morton, Elizabeth B. Wiggins, Padhraic Smyth, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Roy Nadler, and Omer Nevo
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 16, 1395–1424, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1395-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1395-2024, 2024
Short summary
Greenhouse gas emissions and their trends over the last 3 decades across Africa
Mounia Mostefaoui, Philippe Ciais, Matthew J. McGrath, Philippe Peylin, Prabir K. Patra, and Yolandi Ernst
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 16, 245–275, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-245-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-245-2024, 2024
Short summary
A coarse pixel-scale ground “truth” dataset based on global in situ site measurements to support validation and bias correction of satellite surface albedo products
Fei Pan, Xiaodan Wu, Qicheng Zeng, Rongqi Tang, Jingping Wang, Xingwen Lin, Dongqin You, Jianguang Wen, and Qing Xiao
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 16, 161–176, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-161-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-161-2024, 2024
Short summary
Multi-decadal trends and variability in burned area from the fifth version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5)
Yang Chen, Joanne Hall, Dave van Wees, Niels Andela, Stijn Hantson, Louis Giglio, Guido R. van der Werf, Douglas C. Morton, and James T. Randerson
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 5227–5259, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-5227-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-5227-2023, 2023
Short summary

Cited articles

Abera, T. A., Heiskanen, J., Pellikka, P. K. E., Adhikari, H., and Maeda, E. E.: Climatic impacts of bushland to cropland conversion in Eastern Africa, Sci. Total Environ., 717, 137255, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137255, 2020. 
Agarwal, R., Awasthi, A., Singh, N., Mittal, S. K., and Gupta, P. K.: Epidemiological study on healthy subjects affected by agriculture crop-residue burning episodes and its relation with their pulmonary function tests, Int. J. Environ. Heal. R., 23, 281–295, https://https://doi.org/10.1080/09603123.2012.733933, 2013. 
Arctic Black Carbon impacting on Climate and Air Pollution (ABC-iCAP). Action 7.1: Mitigate open biomass burning on cropland, https://bc-policy-landscape.amap.no/action/action-7-1-mitigate-open-biomass-burning-on-cropland (last access: 7 February 2024), 2022. 
Arora, V. K. and Melton, J. R.: Reduction in global area burned and wildfire emissions since 1930s enhances carbon uptake by land, Nat. Commun., 9, 1326, https://https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03838-0, 2018. 
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).
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint