The "Organic soils CO2 emissions (Global - Yearly - kg) – GHG Emissions from Fires in Organic Soils" is one of the 5 Science Dataset (SDS) layers, this layer shows the CO2 emissions of organic soils, at a resolution of 500 meters, and the unit of the data is 'kg'. Data are updated annually from 2001 onwards. Last available year is 2021. Users are advised not to change the projection of the data.
For more detail, please visit the following report:
IPCC 2006, 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Prepared by the National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme, Eggleston H.S., Buendia L., Miwa K., Ngara T. and Tanabe K. (eds). Published: IGES, Japan. pp 2.40-2.49.
Data creation: 2022-05-27
Contact points:
Maintainer: FAOSTAT
Maintainer: Francesco Nicola Tubiello
Maintainer: Giulia Conchedda
Maintainer: Leon Casse
Data lineage:
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions estimates from fires in organic soils are computed within the geospatial cloud platform Google Earth Engine (GEE) applying the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Tier 1 methods for emissions from fires in organic soils (IPCC, 2014, 2013 wetland supplement to the 2006 Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories). The global estimates are computed at pixel level by multiplying the histosol area burnt by the consumption value of the fuel biomass available in the pixel. The biomass burnt in each pixel is then multiplied by the emission factor of each gas (CO2, and CH4). The histosol area burnt is obtained by multiplying the histosol proportion of each pixel with the MODIS burned area monthly dataset (MCD64A1 Collection 6, Giglio et al., 2018) which contains observations of burnt areas at about 500m resolution. The histosol proportion is obtained from the histosol area from the Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD). The applied fuel consumption value and emission factors are a function of the climate zone prevailing in each pixel. The IPCC climate zones, developed by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (2010) is used to subdivide the histosols into tropical and non-tropical organic soils which match those described in the IPCC Guidelines.
For more information:
FAO 2022. FAOSTAT Climate Change – Emissions – Land Use and Land Use change – Fires https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/GI
Rossi S., Tubiello F.N., Prosperi P., Salvatore M., Jacobs H., Biancalani R., House J.I., and Boschetti L. 2016. FAOSTAT estimates of greenhouse gas emissions from biomass and peat fires. Climate Change 135, 699-711. doi: 10.1007/s10584-015-1584-y
Prosperi, P., Bloise, M., Tubiello, F.N., Conchedda, G., Rossi, S., Boschetti, L., Salvatore, M., Bernoux, M. 2020. New estimates of greenhouse gas emissions from biomass burning and peat fires using MODIS Collection 6 burned areas. Climatic Change 1–18.
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Online resources:
Download: FAOSTAT Emissions – Land Use and Land Use Change: Fires
