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    • ABoVE: Wildfire Carbon Emissions and Burned Plot Characteristics, NWT, CA, 2014-2016

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    This dataset provides estimates of wildfire carbon emissions and uncertainties at 30-m resolution, and measurements collected at burned and unburned field plots from the 2014 wildfire sites near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada. Field data were collected at 211 burned plots in 2015 and include site characteristics, tree cover and species, basal area, delta normalized burn ratio (dNBR), plot characteristics, soil carbon, and carbon combusted. Data were collected at 36 unburned plots with characteristics similar to the burned plots in 2016. The emission estimates were derived from a statistical modeling approach based on measurements of carbon consumption at the 211 burned field plots located in seven independent burn scars. Estimates include uncertainty of field observations of aboveground and belowground combustion, as well as prediction uncertainty from a multiplicative regression model. To apply the model across all 2014 NWT fire perimeters, the final model covariates were re-gridded to a common 30-m grid defined by the Arctic Boreal and Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) Project. The regression model was then applied to burned pixels defined by a threshold of Landsat-derived differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) within fire perimeters. Derived carbon emissions and uncertainty in g/m2 are provided for each 30-m grid cell. The modeled NWT domain encompasses 29 tiles within the ABoVE 30-m reference grid system.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Graphic Preview

    Maps of the 2014 NWT fire complex showing a) estimated total combustion, b) uncertainty in total combustion, and details of landscape heterogeneity in c) combustion and d) uncertainty within one of the major fire scars.

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2111710292-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2018-07-30
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-06-12
    Category ABoVE, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation Walker, X.J., B.M. Rogers, J.L. Baltzer, S.R. Cummings, N.J. Day, S.J. Goetz, J.F. Johnstone, M.R. Turetsky, and M.C. Mack. 2018. ABoVE: Wildfire Carbon Emissions and Burned Plot Characteristics, NWT, CA, 2014-2016. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1561
    Graphic Preview Description Maps of the 2014 NWT fire complex showing a) estimated total combustion, b) uncertainty in total combustion, and details of landscape heterogeneity in c) combustion and d) uncertainty within one of the major fire scars.
    Graphic Preview File https://daac.ornl.gov/ABOVE/guides/Fire_Emissions_NWT_Fig1.png
    Harvest Object Id 61572383-845f-43a2-a504-14785f3a2207
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1561
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -136.13 56.25 -102.0 71.7
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 816a336baedbc642d97ee1c4ed78324341619a39eccc55c97af7a4c4e89ff4b1
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2014-07-02T00:00:00Z/2016-08-01T23:59:59Z

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