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Quantifying wildfire drivers and predictability in boreal peatlands using a two-step error-correcting machine learning framework in TeFire v1.0
Rongyun Tang
Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment and Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment and Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA
Daniel M. Ricciuto
Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA
Anping Chen
Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Yulong Zhang
Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment and Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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Short summary
Carbon-rich boreal peatlands are at risk of burning. The reproducibility and predictability of rare peatland fire events are investigated by constructing a two-step error-correcting machine learning framework to tackle such complex systems. Fire occurrence and impacts are highly predictable with our approach. Factor-controlling simulations revealed that temperature, moisture, and freeze–thaw cycles control boreal peatland fires, indicating thermal impacts on causing peat fires.
Carbon-rich boreal peatlands are at risk of burning. The reproducibility and predictability of...
