Articles | Volume 9, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-2685-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-2685-2016
Model description paper
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16 Aug 2016
Model description paper |  | 16 Aug 2016

INFERNO: a fire and emissions scheme for the UK Met Office's Unified Model

Stéphane Mangeon, Apostolos Voulgarakis, Richard Gilham, Anna Harper, Stephen Sitch, and Gerd Folberth

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To understand the role of fires in the Earth system, global fire models are required. In this paper we describe the INteractive Fire and Emission algoRithm for Natural envirOnments (INFERNO). It follows a reduced complexity approach using mainly temperature, humidity and precipitation. INFERNO was found to perform well on a global scale and to maintain regional patterns over the 1997–2011 period of study, despite regional biases particularly linked to fuel consumption.