Data supporting "Changing Climate, Changing Fire: Understanding Ecosystem-Specific Fire-Climate Dynamics in Arizona and New Mexico"

This dataset is derived from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS, https://www.mtbs.gov/direct-download) and PRISM monthly gridded climate data (https://prism.oregonstate.edu/). Data were extracted for Arizona and New Mexico for the period of 1984-2021. Dataset represents spatial mean of seasonal, 3-month climate statistics within the perimeter of each MTBS fire. Columns descriptions include: dates: fire date of season month: first month of season eco1: fire code seas: season code seq: seasonal antecedent sequence seasSeq: sequence code fireSeas: fire season designation fireSize: fire size in acres fireName: name of fire in MTBS fireYear: year of fire ecoName: ecoregion name groupVeg: biophysical setting name prec: seasonal total precipitation vpdmax: seasonal average vapor pressure deficit spi3: 3-month Standardized Precipitation Index vpdmaxZ: standardized seasonal average vapor pressure deficit