Supplementary material to "Satellite-observed relationships between land cover, burned area and atmospheric composition over the southern Amazon"

SupplementS1 Land cover change analysis for dataset and study site choice Initially both the MODIS and the ESA-CCI (ESA, 2017) land cover data were considered due to their global and long-term coverage.Both datasets record a region of high deforestation rates in the southern Amazon based on total forest cover loss between 2001 and 2019.However, a comparison with the PRODES (Programa de Monitoramento da Floresta Amazônica Brasileira por Satélite, INPE (2022)) deforestation dataset for the Legal Amazon highlights an unusual temporal distribution of deforestation in the ESA data.The ESA land cover data has a spike of deforestation in 2003, which accounts for around 78% of the deforestation in the Legal Brazilian Amazon between 2001 and 2019.This is despite the ESA data recording less deforestation (138,616 km 2 ) than either the PRODES (215,784 km 2 ) or MODIS