Mapping the Fire Intensity Global Record (2000 through 2013)

  • Released Thursday, August 8, 2013
  • Updated Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 4:15PM
  • ID: 4093

This visual shows the global view of Mean Fire Radiative Power (FRP) from the MODIS Climate Modeling Grid fire products. Agricultural and prescribed fires are shown in dark red. More intense fires are shown in orange. Regions where the gridded statistical summaries show the most intense fires are shown in bright yellow.

This visualization displays the MODIS Climate Modeling Grid (CMG) Mean Fire Radiative Power (FRP). The CMG fire products incorporate MODIS active fire data into gridded statistical summaries of fire pixel information intended for use in regional and global modeling. The products are currently generated at 0.5 degree spatial resolution. Many of the lower intensity fires shown in red were prescribed fires, lit for either agricultural or ecosystem management purposes. Orange indicates fires that were more intense with the most intense FRP being shown in yellow. Notice, many of the most intense fires occurred in higher latitudes.

This visual shows the same global view of Mean Fire Radiative Power (FRP) from the MODIS Climate Modeling Grid fire products without the accompanying text. Agricultural and prescribed fires are shown in dark red. More intense fires are shown in orange. Regions where the gridded statistical summaries show the most intense fires are shown in bright yellow.

The same sequence with just the text labels and colorbar.

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Colorbar for Fire Intensity as defined by Mean Fire Radiative Power from the MODIS Climate Modeling Grid (CMG).

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This image shows grid cells where the mean FRP is low between 20 and 27 megawatts.

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This image shows grid cells where the mean FRP is low between 28 and 33 megawatts.

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This image shows grid cells where the mean FRP is between 34 and 41 megawatts.

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This image shows grid cells where the mean FRP is between 42 and 49 megawatts.

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This image shows grid cells where the mean FRP is high between 51 and 69 megawatts.

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This image shows grid cells where the mean FRP is very high between 70 and 89 megawatts.

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This image shows grid cells where the mean FRP is the highest where all values are greater then 90 megawatts.

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Papers

This visualization is based on the following papers:
  • Giglio, L., I. Csiszar, and C. O. Justice (2006), Global distribution and seasonality of active fires as observed with the Terra and Aqua Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors, J. Geophys. Res., 111, G02016, doi:10.1029/2005JG000142.

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Datasets used in this visualization

Terra and Aqua CMG (A.K.A. MODIS Climate Modeling Grid) (Collected with the MODIS sensor)
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