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Distribution and characteristics of lightning-ignited wildfires in boreal forests – the BoLtFire database
School of Life Sciences, Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
Ivan Bratoev
School of Engineering and Design, Architectural Informatics, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Morgan A. Crowley
Canadian Forest Service (Great Lakes Forestry Centre), Natural Resources Canada, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Yanan Zhu
Advanced Environmental Monitoring (AEM), Germantown, Maryland, USA
Cornelius Senf
School of Life Sciences, Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
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The pan-boreal lightning-ignited wildfire (BoLtFire) dataset spans the entire boreal forest from 2012 to 2022, focusing on fires of at least 200 ha. Developed using a new methodology to match lightning to wildfires in the boreal region, it includes 6902 fires – 4201 in Eurasia and 2701 in North America. BoLtFire provides new opportunities to model the ignition and spread dynamics of boreal wildfires and offers deeper insights into lightning-driven fire activity globally.
The pan-boreal lightning-ignited wildfire (BoLtFire) dataset spans the entire boreal forest from...
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