Quantitative assessment of fire and vegetation properties in historical simulations with fire-enabled vegetation models from the Fire Model Intercomparison Project

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1 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate research, Atmospheric Environmental 10 Research, Garmisch‐Partenkirchen, Germany. 2 Geospatial Data Solutions Center, University of California Irvine, CA 92697 Irvine, USA. 3 Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford OX10 8BB, UK. 4 School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK. 5 Centre for African Ecology, School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the 15 Witwatersrand, Private Bag X3, WITS, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa. 6 Biological and Ecological Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA. 7 Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Institute (BiK-F), Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 8 Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe-University, Altenhöferallee 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 20 9 International Center for Climate and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. 10 Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK. 11 Climate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2, Canada 12 Institute for Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sciences, Lund University, 22362 Lund, Sweden. 25 13 AXA Chair of Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Grand Challenges in Ecosystem and the Environment, Department of Life Sciences and Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK. 14 College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK. 15 ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia. 30 16 Climate Change Research Center, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. 17 Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université ParisSaclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France. a now at: Data 61, CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia 35