Gridded annual summaries of active fire detections, forest loss, and climate variation in the African tropics

These data characterize active fires from MODIS, forest loss from the Global Forest Change dataset, and meteorological variables from TerraClimate. Data are summarized by 0.05 degree grid cell and by year. These data support the analyses in the following paper, which is under review in Geophysical Research Letters:Wimberly, M. C., Wanyama, D., Doughty, R., Piero, H., and Crowell, S. In Review. Increasing Fire Activity in African Tropical Forests is Associated with Land Use and Climate Change. Geophysical Research Letters.This archive contains the following files:tropical_forest_west_central_africa.shp: Ecoregion boundaries<br>tropical_forest_west_central_africa.shx: Ecoregion boundaries<br>tropical_forest_west_central_africa.dbf: Ecoregion boundaries<br>tropical_forest_west_central_africa.prj: Ecoregion boundaries<br>Annual_africa_modis_fd.tif: Annual count of MODIS active fires<br>AfricaHGFCAnnualLoss2001to2021.tif: Annual count of Global Forest Change forest loss pixels<br>ForestMask2000Prop.tif: Mean Global Forest Change forest cover in 2000<br>ppt_mean: Annual sum of TerraClimate precipitation<br>vpd_mean: Annual mean of TerraClimate vapor pressure deficit<br>tmax_mean: Annual mean of TerraClimate maximum temperature<br><br><br><br><br>