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CMS: Fire Weather Indices for Interior Alaska, 2001-2010

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.3334/ornldaac/1509

This dataset provides daily fire weather indices for interior Alaska during the active fire seasons from 2001 to 2010.

Description

Data are gridded at 60-m resolution. The active fire season is defined as May 24-September 18 (days of the year 144-261) in this dataset.

Fire weather is the use of meteorological parameters such as relative humidity, wind speed and direction, cloud cover, mixing heights, and soil moisture to determine whether conditions are favorable for fire growth and smoke dispersion. The six indices provided in this dataset are defined and produced following the methodology of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System: Fine Fuel Moisture Code, Duff Moisture Code, Drought Code, Initial Spread Index, Buildup Index, Fire Weather Index.

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The dataset was developed following point source data interpolation from weather station observations.

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Provenance · 2 source records, 21 field assertions
SourceKeyLast seenRaw
NASA Earthdata CMRC2391444072-ORNL_CLOUD8 d agoJSON v1
NASA Data Portale80d02e4-40d0-4b13-aad3-4479e1e02b585 d agoJSON v1
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access_levelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:astronomymapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmentalmapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:life-sciencesmapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmosphericmapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:physicsmapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:awssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:computersource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/climate-indicators/land-surface-agriculture-indicators/drought-indicessource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/climate-indicators/land-surface-agriculture-indicators/fire-weather-indexsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:modelssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:weather-stationssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
created_datesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
descriptionsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/Abstract
license_textsource · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
publication_datesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
spatialsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/SpatialExtent
temporalsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/TemporalExtents
titlesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/EntryTitle
updated_datesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
version_labelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0