Articles | Volume 12, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-4681-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-4681-2019
Development and technical paper
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08 Nov 2019
Development and technical paper |  | 08 Nov 2019

Modelling biomass burning emissions and the effect of spatial resolution: a case study for Africa based on the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED)

Dave van Wees and Guido R. van der Werf

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For this paper, a novel high spatial-resolution fire emission model based on the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED) modelling framework was developed and compared to a coarser-resolution version of the same model. Our findings highlight the importance of fine spatial resolution when modelling global-scale fire emissions, especially considering the comparison of model pixels to individual field measurements and the model representation of heterogeneity in the landscape.