The Reading Palaeofire Database: an expanded global resource to document changes in fire regimes from sedimentary charcoal records

Wildfires have major impacts on terrestrial ecosystems, the global carbon cycle, atmospheric chemistry and climate. Charcoal records from sedimentary sequences provide a way to reconstruct palaeofire regimes at different temporal and spatial scales and are a key resource to improve our understanding of the drivers of wildfires. The RPD version 1 is an updated and expanded database of global charcoal records, accompanied by new Bayesian age models. The first version of the RPD contains 1681 charcoal records from 1477 sites worldwide. New age models have been run for 714 of the charcoal records