Evaluation of Global Fire Weather Database reanalysis and short-term forecast products

Field, Robert D.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-1123-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-1123-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-1123-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 4

Research article

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27 Apr 2020

Research article |

| 27 Apr 2020

Evaluation of Global Fire Weather Database reanalysis and short-term forecast products

Robert D. Field

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Final revised paper (published on 27 Apr 2020)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of nhess-2019-197', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Jul 2019
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer Comment 1', Robert Field, 23 Jan 2020
RC2: 'Review of manuscript nhess-2019-197', Anonymous Referee #2, 16 Sep 2019
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer Comment 2', Robert Field, 23 Jan 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (31 Jan 2020) by Ricardo Trigo

AR by Robert Field on behalf of the Authors (31 Jan 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (03 Feb 2020) by Ricardo Trigo

AR by Robert Field on behalf of the Authors (17 Feb 2020)

Short summary

This paper compares fire weather indices calculated from the NASA MERRA-2 reanlaysis to those calculated from a global network of weather stations, finding that, globally, biases in reanalysis fire weather are influenced firstly by temperature and relative humidity and, in certain regions, by precipitation biases. Fire weather forecasts using short-term NASA GEOS-5 weather forecasts are skillful 2 d ahead of time. This skill decreases more quickly with longer lead times at high latitudes.