Potential Above-Ground Combustion in Boreal and Arctic North America
This dataset contains potential above-ground carbon emissions (g/m2) from wildfire combustion. It's primary purpose is for land managers and fire mangers to use this map to identify areas with high carbon vulnerability to wildfires for protection as a climate solution strategy to mitigate potential carbon losses. This dataset was created using a ML model trained on field observations of above-ground combustion in boreal and arctic Canada and Alaska, using spatial features such as annual land-cover, tree canopy cover, above ground biomass, and down-scaled climate data from the year before the fires in the training data occurred. Potential above-ground combustion uses the latest layers of features such as tree canopy cover and CMIP6 projected climate variables from the shared socioeconomic pathway (SSP) 585.
Published on 11 Mar 2026Restricted