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Research article
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28 Sep 2020
Research article |
| 28 Sep 2020
| 28 Sep 2020
Quantifying the effects of environmental factors on wildfire burned area in the south central US using integrated machine learning techniques
Sally S.-C. Wang
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston,
Houston, Texas 77024, USA
now at: Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, 99354, USA
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston,
Houston, Texas 77024, USA
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Short summary
A model consisting of multiple machine learning algorithms is developed to predict wildfire burned area over the south central US and explains key environmental drivers. The developed model alleviates the issue of unevenly distributed data and predicts burned grids and burned areas with good accuracy. The model reveals climate variability such as relative humidity anomalies and antecedent drought severity contributes the most to the total burned area for winter–spring and summer fire season.
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