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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
+44(0)1235 446432
British Atmospheric Data Centre
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
UK
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2024-03-28T16:38:03
UK GEMINI
2.3
WGS 84
FireMAFS (Fire Modelling and Forecasting System)
2008-12-10T03:15:42
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2008-12-10T03:15:42
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http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/67afe8bb533652ee15c37f5a6474ebbc
67afe8bb533652ee15c37f5a6474ebbc
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
FireMAFS was led by Prof Martin Wooster (Kings College, London) as part of QUEST Theme 3 (Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System) project.
This dataset collection contains the MODIS Land Cover Type product multiple classification schemes, which describe land cover properties derived from observations spanning a year’s input of Terra and Aqua data. The data are stored in a 10 arc minute grid.
Fire was the most important disturbance agent worldwide in terms of area and variety of biomass affected, a major mechanism by which carbon is transferred from the land to the atmosphere, and a globally significant source of aerosols and many trace gas species. Despite such clear coupling between fire, climate, and vegetation, fire was not modelled as an interactive component of the climate/earth systems models of full complexity or intermediate complexity, that are used to model terrestrial ecosystem processes principally for simulating CO2 exchanges.
The objective of FireMAFS was to resolve these limitations by developing a robust method to forecast fire activity (fire 'danger' indices, ignition probabilities, burnt area, fire intensity etc), via a process-based model of fire-vegetation interactions, tested, improved, and constrained. This used a state-of-the-art EO data products and driven by seasonal weather forecasts issued with many months lead-time.
Much of the activity of FireMAFS was shaped by the research and technical priorities of QUESTESM (earth system model).
Key activities included the progressive development of the JULES-ED and SPITFIRE submodels.
Fire is now very well represented in QESM (Quest Earth System Model), making progress towards
a modelling capability for fire risk forecasting in the context of global change.
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
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Wooster, Martin
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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
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British Atmospheric Data Centre
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
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+44(0)1235 446432
British Atmospheric Data Centre
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
UK
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+44(0)1235 446432
British Atmospheric Data Centre
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
UK
badc@rl.ac.uk
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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
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+44(0)1235 446432
British Atmospheric Data Centre
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
UK
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QUEST
FireMAFS
Fire
modelling
forecasting
atmospheric conditions
theme
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
2008-06-01
publication
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All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user.
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climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
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89.975
2008-04-13T23:00:00
2013-07-13T22:59:59
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British Atmospheric Data Centre
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Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
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information
http://quest.bris.ac.uk/publications/Quest%20Final%20Report/QUEST_FinalReport_Final_July2011.pdf
QUEST report
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http://quest.bris.ac.uk/research/themes/fireMAFS.html
FireMAFS: Fire Modelling and Forecasting System
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
2010-12-08
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