Data Portfolio

The WISE fire spread model outputs from Climate DT experiments are provided as gridded NetCDF files containing fire behaviour metrics. The outputs include burn grid, maximum fire intensity, and maximum flame length.

File Structure and Naming Convention

The WISE output files are organized by year, month, and test site/scenario folder.

Directory naming convention:

  • EO.FMI.DAT.DESTINE_CLIMATE_WILDFIRE_WISE_<start>_<end>__<site_or_scenario>

Examples of site/scenario suffixes include kalajoki, koli, lieksa, portugal_site_1_normal_fuel, portugal_site_1_fuelbreaks, portugal_site_2_normal_fuel, portugal_site_2_fuelbreaks, portugal_site_3_normal_fuel, and portugal_site_3_fuelbreaks.

Daily file naming convention:

  • YYYY_MM_DD_T00_00_burn_grid.nc

  • YYYY_MM_DD_T00_00_max_intensity.nc

  • YYYY_MM_DD_T00_00_max_flame_length.nc

Data Specifications

Grid Fire Behaviour Output

Coordinates

lat, lon

Spatial Resolution and Coverage

Finland: 16 m × 16 m; Portugal: 100 m × 100 m

Temporal Resolution

Daily fire spread simulation results

Data Variables

burn_grid, max_intensity, max_flame_length

Description

Burn Grid

Binary indicator (0 = not burned, 1 = burned)

Maximum Fire Intensity (kW/m²)

Maximum simulated fire intensity for each grid cell

Flame Length (m)

Maximum simulated flame length for each grid cell

Test Site Locations

Results are available from test sites in two regions:

Finland * Kalajoki (lat: 64.007044, lon: 24.152986) * Koli (lat: 63.050609, lon: 29.889436) * Lieksa (lat: 63.436092, lon: 30.541259)

Portugal (from Horizon Europe PIISA project) * Portugal Site 1 (lat: 40.041393, lon: -8.114061) * Portugal Site 2 (lat: 40.196173, lon: -8.137504) * Portugal Site 3 (lat: 40.125040, lon: -8.113300)

Scenarios

For each test site, fire spread simulations are conducted for:

  1. Baseline scenario - Fire spread simulated with current vegetation and fuel conditions

  2. What-if scenario (Portugal only) - Fire spread simulated with planned clear cuts implemented as fuel breaks