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@ARTICLE{Mota:54139,
author = {Mota, B. and Pereira, J. and Oom, D. and Vasconcelos, M.
and Schultz, M.},
title = {{S}creening of the {ESA} {ATSR}-2 {W}orld {F}ire {A}tlas
(1997-2002)},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics},
volume = {6},
issn = {1680-7316},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {PreJuSER-54139},
pages = {1409 - 1424},
year = {2006},
note = {Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012},
abstract = {We screened the algorithm 2 ( 308 K threshold) European
Space Agency (ESA) World Fire Atlas (WFA), for the period
1997 - 2002, using ancillary land cover, nightlights and
volcanic activity datasets, combined with statistical
techniques to detect the occurrence of space-time clusters
of anomalous observations. The WFA is built using night time
data from the Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) onboard
the Second European Remote-Sensing Satellite (ERS-2). The
spatial resolution of the data is 1 km and the satellite
revisiting period is 3 days at the equator. The WFA is the
first and longest archive of global fire observations and
has been used in numerous biomass burning studies. Known
limitations of the WFA are the inclusion of warm surfaces,
gas flares, and city lights, and an underestimation of
actual global fire activity, due to the time of satellite
overpass. Nevertheless, it has been considered that the WFA
contains a relatively small proportion of observations that
do not correspond to vegetation fires, which is not
corroborated by our findings. During the study period, the
annual percentage of false alarms and non-vegetation fires
varied from a minimum value of $20.6\%$ in 1997 to a maximum
of $27.9\%$ in 1998. Gas flares and hot bare soils are the
major sources of false alarms and non-vegetation fires.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {ICG-II},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB48},
pnm = {Atmosphäre und Klima},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK406},
shelfmark = {Meteorology $\&$ Atmospheric Sciences},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000237293400001},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/54139},
}