The self-breeding fire-lightning interaction cases identified after manual screening of automated detected pyroCbs for 2014-2016 in Africa

This is the self-breeding fire-lighnting interaction cases identified after manual screening of automated detected pyroCbs from 2014 to 2016

Usage Notes:

Table 1 Expanded details of variables included in the self-breeding cases identified after manual screening of automated detected cases for 2014-2016.

Variable Name

Explanation/Units

Dtype

sfire_lat, sfire_lon

Coordinates of ignition location (°) of self-bred fire

float64

sfire_start_date

Start date (yyyy-mm-dd) of self-bred fire

datetime64[ms]

sfire_id

Self-bred fire ID in GFA

int32

sfire_size

Fire size (km²) of self-bred fire

float64

sfire_landcover

MCD12Q1 dominant land cover class of self-bred fire

object

plightning_lat, plightning_lon

Coordinates of location (°) of pyrogenic lightning

float64

plightning_time

Pyrogenic lightning time

datetime64[ms]

prefire_id

Preceding fire ID in GFA

int32

prefire_start_date

Start date (yyyy-mm-dd) of preceding fire

datetime64[ms]

prefire_end_date

End date (yyyy-mm-dd) of preceding fire

datetime64[ms]

prefire_size

Fire size (km²) of preceding fire

float64

prefire_landcover

MCD12Q1 dominant land cover class of preceding fire

object

prefire_direction

Dominant direction of spread of preceding fire

object

prefire_lat, prefire_lon

Coordinates of ignition location (°) of preceding fire

float64

prefire_geometry

Polygon of preceding fire (°)

geometry

File Name Convention:

PyroCb_fire_and_lightning.{fire_season}.geojson

{fire_season} = the locally-defined fire season in which the fire was ignited (see more below).

Fire Season Convention:

Please note that the year string in filenames refers to the locally-defined fire season in which the fire ignited, not the calendar year. Hence the file PyroCb_fire_and_lightning.2015.geojson can include fires from the 2015 fire season that ignited in the calendar years 2014 or 2016. The local definition of the fire season is based on climatological peak in burned area as described by Andela et al. (2019).