Niels Andela¹, Douglas C Morton¹, Guido van der Werf², Wilfrid Schroeder³, Louis Giglio⁴, Yang Chen⁵ and James Tremper Randerson⁵, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (3)NOAA, NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product Operations, College Park, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (5)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States