SeasFire Cube: A Global Dataset for Seasonal Fire Modeling in the Earth System

The <strong>SeasFire Cube</strong> is a scientific datacube for seasonal fire forecasting around the <strong>globe</strong>.<br> <br> It has been created in the context of the SeasFire project, which deals with "<em>Earth System Deep Learning for Seasonal Fire Forecasting</em>" and <strong>is funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) </strong> in the context of ESA Future EO-1 Science for Society Call.<br> <br> It contains almost <strong>20 years</strong> of data (2001-2021) in an <strong>8-days</strong> time resolution and <strong>0.25 degrees grid</strong> resolution. It has a diverse range of seasonal fire drivers. It expands from atmospheric and climatological ones to vegetation variables, socioeconomic and the target variables related to wildfires such as burned areas, fire radiative power, and wildfire-related CO2 emissions. <strong>Feature</strong> <strong>Value</strong> Spatial Coverage Global Temporal Coverage 2001 to 2021 Spatial Resolution 0.25 deg x 0.25 deg Temporal Resolution 8 days Potential Input Variables 30 Potential Target Variables 8 Tutorial Link https://github.com/SeasFire/seasfire-datacube <strong>Variable Name</strong> <strong>Websites</strong> <strong>MODIS Satellite Variables</strong> (Land surface temperature, Normalized vegetation index, Leaf Area Index) MOD11C1, MOD13C1, MCD15A2 <strong>Climate Indices:</strong> North Atlantic Oscillation, Niño 3.4 region, Western Pacific Index, Pacific North American Index, Bivariate ENSO Timeseries, East Pacific/North Pacific Oscillation, East Pacific/North Pacific Oscillation, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Eastern Asia/Western Russia Index, Southern Oscillation Index, Global Mean Land/Ocean Temperature NOAA Climate Indices Total precipitation, vapor pressure deficit, Wind Speed, mean sea level pressure, minimum 2 metre temperature, maximum 2 metre temperature, mean 2 metre temperature, Volumetric soil water layer 1, sea surface temperature, Surface solar radiation downwards, Surface net solar radiation, Skin temperature, relative_humidity ERA5 Meteo Reanalysis Data <strong>Fire Indices</strong>: Max, Mean FWI, Max Drought Code CEMS <strong>Population Density</strong> Gridded Population of the World (GPW), v4 <strong>Burned Areas</strong> (GFED) Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED) <strong>Burned Areas</strong> (GWIS) Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) <strong>Burned Areas</strong> (Fire CCI) FireCCI - European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative<br> Carbon emissions (CO2) from Wildfires, Fire Radiative Power CAMS: Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS) <em>Table 2: Included variables and respective web access points (valid in July 2022).</em> Apart from seasonal fire forecasting, it can also be used for global environmental modeling from 2001 to 2021 and tasks such as sea surface temperature, and carbon emissions modeling.