Spatial patterns and temporal dynamics of world carbon emissions from 1700-2100

Temporally, the dataset spans 1700–2100 with annual resolution (sub-annual for contemporary satellite data); spatially, it includes global gridded data (0.1°–0.25° resolution) and country-level statistics for Russia, Canada, the USA, Brazil, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Australia, Indonesia, and others. Trend.xlsx consist of 301-year historical, 20-year contemporary, and 80-year future WCE time series (units: Pg CO₂ yr⁻¹), with 12–15 records per model/scenario.

Fraction.xlsx include 20-year national WCE trends (units: Pg CO₂ yr⁻¹) for 7 countries. Missing values arise from historical model uncertainties (e.g., limited representation of human-fire interactions pre-1850), contemporary satellite gaps in detecting small agricultural fires or cloud-obscured events, and future scenario divergences. Inter-dataset discrepancies of up to 40% stem from variations in satellite detection sensitivity, combustion completeness assumptions (e.g., 0–80 m burning depth in peatlands vs. grasslands), emission factors, and fire-climate-human interaction parameterizations.

The dataset is provided in NetCDF (gridded) and CSV (national/timeseries) formats, compatible with standard GIS (QGIS, ArcGIS) and statistical software (R, Python), with full metadata available upon request from the corresponding authors.