From: Uncovering current pyroregions in Italy using wildfire metrics
Variables | Codes and units | Description and source |
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Climatic | ||
 Average max. temperature | Temp_max [°C] | Calculated from MOD11A2 V6, 8-day Land Surface Temperature at 1 km of spatial resolution. Temp_mean is the average from 2007 to 2017 and Temp_max is the average maximum yearly temperature within this period |
 Average mean temperature | Temp_mean [°C] |  |
 Evapotranspiration | ET_mean [kg/m2] | Average for 2007–2017, calculated from MOD16A2 V6, 8-day Evapotranspiration composite at 500 m of spatial resolution |
 Longest drought period | Longest_drought_period [days] | The average longest drought within the period of investigation (2007–2017) |
Biophysical | ||
 NDVI mean | NDVI_mean | Average for 2007–2017 calculated from MOD09A1 V6, 8-day Surface Spectral Reflectance composite at 500 m of spatial resolution |
 NDWI mean | NDWI_mean | |
 Elevation | elev.mean [m asl] | Zonal mean derived from NASA SRTM DEM at 90 m of spatial resolution, v4.1 (Jarvis et al. 2008) |
 Slope | slope.deg [degrees] | |
 Latitude | Latitude][decimal degrees] | Latitudinal location of the centroid for each NUTS3 province |
 Density of rivers | river.density [km/ha] | Derived from the CCM2 River and Catchment Database for Europe V 2.1. River density was calculated only considering the main rivers |
 Mean distance to coast | coast.dist.mean [km] | |
 Artificial surfaces | Artif.surf [%] | Percentage occupied by artificial surfaces (Level 1) according to Corine Land Cover 2012 (CLC 2012) |
 Arable lands | Arable.land [%] | Percentage occupied by arable lands, permanent crops, pastures and heterogeneous agricultural areas (Level 2) according to CLC 2012 |
 Permanent crops | Perm.crop [%] | |
 Pastures | Pastures [%] | |
 Heterogeneous agricultural areas | Agric.areas [%] | |
 Broad leaved forests | Broad.leaved.for [%] | Percentage occupied by broad-leaved, conifer and mixed forests (Level 3) according to CLC 2012 |
 Conifer forests | Conif.for [%] | |
 Mixed forest | Mixed.for [%] | |
 Shrub/herbaceous vegetation association | Shr.herb.veg [%] | Percentage occupied by scrub/herbaceous vegetation associations and areas with little or no vegetation (Level 2) according to CLC 2012 |
 Little or no vegetation | little.no.veg [%] | |
Socioeconomic | ||
 Population density | pop.dens [inhab/km2] | Eurostat [demo_r_d3dens] data from 2012 |
 Level of employment | Perc.employed [%] | Eurostat [nama_10r_3empers] data from 2012 |
 Gross Domestic Product | GDP [1000 EUR/km2] | Eurostat [nama_10r_3gdp] data from 2012 |
 Density of tourist establishments | dens.tour.establ [#/km2] | Includes hotels; holiday and other short-stay accommodations; camping grounds, recreational vehicle parks and trailer parks. Eurostat [tour_cap_nuts3] data from 2011 |
 People with basic education | Perc.people.basic.educ [%] | Percentage of people with basic educational level (0–2). Istat [DICA_GRADOISTR1] data from 2011 |