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Journal Article 
Comparison of global inventories of CO2 emissions from biomass burning during 2002-2011 derived from multiple satellite products 
Shi, Y; Matsunaga, T; Saito, M; Yamaguchi, Y; Chen, X 
2015 
Yes 
Environmental Pollution
ISSN: 0269-7491
EISSN: 1873-6424 
ELSEVIER SCI LTD 
OXFORD 
206 
479-487 
English 
26281761 
WOS:000366235700058 
This study compared five widely used globally gridded biomass burning emissions inventories for the 2002-2011 period (Global Fire Emissions Database 3 (GFED3), Global Fire Emissions Database 4 (GFED4), Global Fire Assimilation System 1.0 (GFAS1.0), Fire INventory from NCAR 1.0 (FINN1.0) and Global Inventory for Chemistry-Climate studies-GFED4 (G-G)). Average annual CO2 emissions range from 6521.3 to 9661.5 Tg year(-1) for five inventories, with extensive amounts in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia. Coefficient of Variation for Southern America, Northern and Southern Africa are 30%, 39% and 48%. Globally, the majority of CO2 emissions are released from savanna bumings, followed by forest and cropland burnings. The largest differences among the five inventories are mainly attributable to the overestimation of CO2 emissions by FINN1.0 in Southeast Asia savanna and cropland burning, and underestimation in Southern Africa savanna and Amazon forest burning. The overestimation in Africa by G-G also contributes to the diffefences. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). 
Biomass burning; CO2 emissions; Remote sensing; Spatial variation; Savanna fires