netcdf icon/CH4/BBE/GFED/R2B04_ECHAM/ART_BBE_iconR2B04-grid-2005-12-01-00_ECHAM.nc {
  dimensions:
    time = UNLIMITED;   // (1 currently)
    ncells = 20480;
    vertices = 3;
  variables:
    double time(time=1);
      :standard_name = "time";
      :units = "days since 1997-1-1 00:00:00";
      :calendar = "standard";
      :axis = "T";

    double clon(ncells=20480);
      :standard_name = "longitude";
      :long_name = "center longitude";
      :units = "radian";
      :bounds = "clon_bnds";

    double clon_bnds(ncells=20480, vertices=3);

    double clat(ncells=20480);
      :standard_name = "latitude";
      :long_name = "center latitude";
      :units = "radian";
      :bounds = "clat_bnds";

    double clat_bnds(ncells=20480, vertices=3);

    float CH4(time=1, ncells=20480);
      :standard_name = "tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_methane_due_to_emission";
      :long_name = "GFED, biomassBurning_CH4: kilograms of species per square metre and per second";
      :units = "kg/m2/s";
      :CDI_grid_type = "unstructured";
      :coordinates = "clat clon";
      :_FillValue = -8.9999998E15f; // float
      :missing_value = -8.9999998E15f; // float

  // global attributes:
  :CDI = "Climate Data Interface version 1.9.10 (https://mpimet.mpg.de/cdi)";
  :Conventions = "CF-1.0";
  :uuidOfHGrid = "6dffb27e-c162-11e6-bde4-f3bd241f4de0";
  :source = "For November 2000 onwards it is for 90% based on mapped MODIS burned area, aggregated from the native 500-meter resolution to 0.5 degree. The remaining 10% and burned area for 1997 - October 2000 are based on relations between active fires (ATSR, TRMM-VIRS, and MODIS) and mapped burned area for periods they overlap.\n\nVan der Werf, GR; Randerson, JT; Giglio, L; Collatz, GJ; Mu, M; Kasibhatla, PS; Morton, DC; DeFries, RS; Jin, Y; van Leeuwen, TT; Global fire emissions and the contribution of deforestation, savanna, forest, agricultural, and peat fires (1997-2009), Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10, 11707-11735, doi:10.5194/acp-10-11707-2010, 2010.\nThese emissions estimates are build combining burned area data from MODIS direct broadcast algorithm with a biogeochemical model (CASA-GFED) that estimates fuel loads and combustion completeness for each monthly time step. These fuel loads are based on satellite derived information on vegetation productivity and characteristics to estimate carbon input, and carbon outputs through heterotrophic respiration, herbivory, and fires.";
  :institution = "Vrije Universiteit - Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences (VU) - Amsterdam, Netherlands";
  :prepicon_conversion_tool = "version $Rev: 763 $";
  :history = "Sat Apr 09 23:46:09 2022: cdo remapdis,outgrid_r2b04_echam.txt -setgrid,ingrid_r2b05-0014.txt R2B05_0014_GFED3/ART_BBE_iconR2B05-grid-2005-12-01-00_0014.nc R2B04_ECHAM_GFED3/ART_BBE_iconR2B04-grid-2005-12-01-00_ECHAM.nc\nMon Mar 21 19:27:22 2016: cdo -s seldate,2005-12-01T00 tmp_remapped.nc tmp.nc\nMon Mar 21 19:23:15 2016: cdo -s remapdis,r360x180 /pfs/imk/imk-asf/common/emissions_raw_data/GFED3_biomassBurning_CH4_1997-2010_3000.nc tmp_remapped.nc\nOriginal data from GFED, provided by ECCAD-GEIA database2010 Original dataset release date\n2011 Data online on ECCAD site\n";
  :title = "biomassBurning_CH4 (Methane) - Global Fire Emissions Database, version 3 (GFED3) - Data between year 1997 and 2010 from GFED3 distributed by ECCAD";
  :references = "Original data site: http://www.falw.vu/~gwerf/GFED/GFED3/emissions \nDocumentation: http://www.globalfiredata.org";
  :comment = "No miscellaneous information for this dataset";
  :authors = "Guido Van der Werf, James T. Randerson, Louis Giglio";
  :citation = "\"Van der Werf, GR; Randerson, JT; Giglio, L; Collatz, GJ; Mu, M; Kasibhatla, PS; Morton, DC; DeFries, RS; Jin, Y; van Leeuwen, TT; Global fire emissions and the contribution of deforestation, savanna, forest, agricultural, and peat fires (1997-2009), Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10, 11707-11735, doi:10.5194/acp-10-11707-2010, 2010\"";
  :use_constraints = "The User shall take all relevant steps to maintain the rights of the various Licensors including those of the CNRS-INSU and CNES. In particular, he shall clearly mark on all communications and distributed documents, the name and identification of the various Licensors, whose list is provided in the metadata files, and refer to the ECCAD-Ether project as the service provider. The manner how each product has to be referenced is explicitly written in the metadata file of the ECCAD-Ether product. \nIt\'s expressly agreed that the User shall refrain from any commercial use whatsoever, direct or indirect, of products provided by ECCAD-Ether.";
  :acknowledgements = "Users of the ECCAD products are required to acknowledge ECCAD in all communications and publications for the archiving and distribution of the data, and to quote the reference(s) indicated in CITATION.";
  :filedate = "File downloaded on day 2015-2-18";
  :projection = "Latitude-Longitude gridded data at a 0.5 x 0.5 decimal degrees spatial resolution";
  :CDO = "Climate Data Operators version 1.9.10 (https://mpimet.mpg.de/cdo)";
}