“…Generally, methods of investigating global burned area could be classified into three categories, i.e., ground-based inventory data interpolation [Mouillot and Field, 2005;Schultz et al, 2008], satellite observation [Giglio et al, 2013;Roy et al, 2008;Tansey et al, 2008], and model simulation [e.g., Li et al, 2012;Pechony and Shindell, 2009;Thonicke et al, 2010;Yang et al, 2014a;Yue et al, 2014b]. Global fire emissions can be either estimated based on burned area, fuel loading, and combustion completeness [e.g., Mouillot et al, 2006;Prentice et al, 2011;Thonicke et al, 2010;van der Werf et al, 2010] or derived directly through satellite-observed fire radiative power [Kaiser et al, 2012;Zhang et al, 2014].…”