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Fire affects an estimated four million square kilometres of Earth’s land surface each year, releasing aerosols and greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Understanding the influence on atmospheric chemistry and representing these emissions in future climate predictions however, is complex and remains poorly understood. To improve the situation, a team of scientists have used satellite observations to map the pattern of burn patches resulting from biomass burning on a global scale and over several decades, covering 1982–2018. This map shows total burned area for 1982 at a 0.25-degree spatial resolution.
Read full story: New dataset to analyse global fire trends