Globe-LFMC is an extensive global database of live fuel moisture content (LFMC) measured from 1,383 sampling sites in 11 countries: Argentina, Australia, China, France, Italy, Senegal, Spain, South Africa, Tunisia, United Kingdom and the United States of America. The database contains 161,717 individual records based on in situ destructive samples used to measure LFMC, representing the amount of water in plant leaves per unit of dry matter. The primary goal of the database is to calibrate and validate remote sensing algorithms used to predict LFMC. However, this database is also relevant for the calibration and validation of dynamic global vegetation models, eco-physiological models of plant water stress as well as understanding the physiological drivers of spatiotemporal variation in LFMC at local, regional and global scales. Globe-LFMC should be useful for studying LFMC trends in response to environmental change and LFMC influence on wildfire occurrence, wildfire behavior, and overall vegetation health.

Following publication of this Data Descriptor, it was found that the method for thresholding inclusion of monthly Normalised Difference of Vegetation Index (NDVI) values in the Globe-LFMC dataset was incorrectly stated as >80% of values in a given window missing due to cloud and snow masking. This has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions. In addition, due to a datum assignment error, values included in Table 5 were incorrectly reported. Table 5 has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions, and the underlying data corrected in the associated figshare record.