Global Charcoal Database - Paleofire (2016)
Data creator :
Global Paleofire working Group
Research group :
Global Paleofire working Group
Description :
The aim of the Global Charcoal Database (GCD) is to provide the scientific community with a global paleofire dataset for research and archiving sedimentary records of fire. The GCD is managed by the Global Paleofire Working Group – GPWG.
The GCD is funded and support by: the PAGES initiative and the project OREAS by Région Franche-Comté in France via the Chrono-environnement laboratory.
The science emerging from the GPWG is mainly:
- the creation of a public-access database and an international research community with multiple-authored papers describing observed spatiotemporal changes in fire at global and regional scales (e.g. time series and maps).
- Global and regional syntheses which enable the examination of broad-scale patterns in paleofire activity, creating a framework for exploring the linkages among fire, Human, climate and vegetation at centennial-to-multi-millennial time scales and allowing for evaluation of fire model simulations at regional to global scales.
The GCD is funded and support by: the PAGES initiative and the project OREAS by Région Franche-Comté in France via the Chrono-environnement laboratory.
The science emerging from the GPWG is mainly:
- the creation of a public-access database and an international research community with multiple-authored papers describing observed spatiotemporal changes in fire at global and regional scales (e.g. time series and maps).
- Global and regional syntheses which enable the examination of broad-scale patterns in paleofire activity, creating a framework for exploring the linkages among fire, Human, climate and vegetation at centennial-to-multi-millennial time scales and allowing for evaluation of fire model simulations at regional to global scales.
Disciplines :
ecology (applied biology - ecology), environmental sciences (sciences of the universe), geography, physical (sciences of the universe), geosciences, multidisciplinary (sciences of the universe)
Keywords :
General metadata
Data acquisition date :
from 2004 ongoing
Data acquisition methods :
- Observational data : Sediment core analyses
Formats :
text/csv, text/x-sql
Audience :
University: master, Research, Stakeholder, Policy maker
Publications :
- Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data (doi:10.1007/s00382-007-0334-x)
- Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes (doi:10.1029/2011GB004249)
- Reconstructions of biomass burning from sediment charcoal records to improve data-model comparisons (doi:10.5194/bgd-12-18571-2015)
- 7000-year human legacy of elevation-dependent European fire regimes (doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.11.012)
- Circum-Mediterranean fire activity and climate changes during the mid Holocene environmental transition (doi:10.1177/0959683610384164)
- Multi-Scale Analyses of fire-climateVegetation Interactions on Millennial Scales (http://mascourbet.com/olivier_wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Vanniere_etal_PAGES_2014.pdf)
Publisher :
Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249)
Project and funders :
-
Global Paleofire Working Group
- PAGES - Past Global Change (Another international)
- Région Franche-Comté via OSU (projet OREAS) (Region Franche-Comté)
Additional information :
The GCD is managed by the Global Paleofire Working Group – GPWG (http://www.gpwg.paleofire.org/)
The GCD is funded and support by the PAGES initiative (http://www.pages-igbp.org/)
The GCD is funded and support by the PAGES initiative (http://www.pages-igbp.org/)
DOI and links
10.25666/DATAOSU-2016-03-08
https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.25666/DATAOSU-2016-03-08
https://search-data.ubfc.fr/FR-18008901306731-2016-03-08
Quotation
GPWG (2016): Global Charcoal Database - Paleofire. Chrono-environnement. doi:10.25666/DATAOSU-2016-03-08
Record created 8 Mar 2016 by Boris Vannière.
Last modification : 8 Mar 2016.
Local identifier: FR-18008901306731-2016-03-08.
