Articles | Volume 19, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-3617-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-3617-2026
Model description paper
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05 May 2026
Model description paper |  | 05 May 2026

Incorporating observed fire severity in refined emissions estimates for boreal and temperate forest fires in the carbon budget model CBM-CFS3 v1.2

Dan K. Thompson, Ellen Whitman, Mark Hafer, Oleksandra Hararuk, Chelene Hanes, Vinicius Manvailer Goncalves, and Ben Hudson

Data sets

RMarkdown source code and data inputs to FireDMs Dan K. Thompson and Ellen Whitman https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17517166

Model code and software

RMarkdown source code and data inputs to FireDMs Dan K. Thompson and Ellen Whitman https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17517166

Interactive computing environment

RMarkdown source code and data inputs to FireDMs Dan K. Thompson and Ellen Whitman https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17517166

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Short summary
Emissions from fires are tallied in Canada's National Forest Carbon Monitoring Accounting and Reporting System. Mapped fire extents and regional carbon stock estimates are used, but a fixed and high fire severity is assumed. This paper improves on existing methods by calculating fire emissions based on mapped fire severity. This new method compares well against independent measurements for the 2023 fires in Canada.
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