Global fire emissions and the contribution of deforestation,
savanna, forest, agricultural, and peat fires (1997–2009)
1Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands 2Department of Earth System Science, University
of California, Irvine, California, USA 3Department of Geography,
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA 4NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA 5Nicholas
School of the Environmental, Duke University, Durham, North
Carolina, USA 6Department of Ecology, Evolution, and
Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York,
USA Abstract. New burned area datasets and top-down constraints
from atmospheric concentration measurements of pyrogenic gases
have decreased the large uncertainty in fire emissions
estimates. However, significant gaps remain in our understanding
of the contribution of deforestation, savanna, forest,
agricultural waste, and peat fires to total global fire
emissions. Here we used a revised version of the Carnegi