January 2025 | Publication in Nature Geoscience

January 2025

Publication in Nature Geoscience

The Sense4Fire team published together with further collaborators a paper in Nature Geoscience:

Forkel, M., Wessollek, C., Huijnen, V., Andela, N., de Laat, A., Kinalczyk, D., Marrs, C., van Wees, D., Bastos, A., Ciais, P., Fawcett, D., Kaiser, J. W., Klauberg, C., Kutchartt, E., Leite, R., Li, W., Silva, C., Sitch, S., Goncalves De Souza, J., Zaehle, S., and Plummer, S. (2025)

Burning of woody debris dominates fire emissions in the Amazon and Cerrado

Nature Geoscience, 1–8, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01637-5.

In the paper, an intercomparison of several fire emission estimates in presented for the fire season 2020 in the Amazon and Cerrado. Then the contribution of different fire types and fuel components to the total fire emissions are investigated, showing that emissions are dominated by smouldering combustion of woody debris.

ESA also published an article about the paper along with a very nice animation of the key results.

All datasets related to the paper are open available at https://doi.org/10.25532/OPARA-688 and at this website under "Data".