Gridded daily Agricultural Burning Emission Inventory of Eastern China, 2012 - 2015, V0.0

The Gridded daily Agricultural Burning Emission Inventory of Eastern China dataset contains a unique high Spatio-temporal resolution agricultural burning inventory for eastern China for the years 2012-2015. The data was generated using twice daily fire radiative power (FRP) observations from the ‘small fire optimised’ VIIRS-IM FRP product, and combined with fire diurnal cycle information taken from the geostationary Himawari-8 satellite. This dataset was designed to fully take into account small fires well below the MODIS burned area or active fire detection limit, focusing on dry matter burned (DMB) and emissions of CO2, CO, PM2.5 and black carbon. The fuel for these fires is waste straw and other agricultural residues. Information from a crop rotation map to classify the type of agricultural residue being burned at each observed location and time, in addition to an agricultural area land map was also incorporated in consideration of this.