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Technical Paper

The Comprehensive Fire Information Reconciled Emissions (CFIRE) inventory: Wildland fire emissions developed for the 2011 and 2014 U.S. National Emissions Inventory

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Pages 1165-1185 | Received 15 Jan 2020, Accepted 09 Jul 2020, Published online: 23 Sep 2020

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