Impact of Weather Covariates on Wildfire in Tanjung Puting National Park
This paper explores wildfire modeling based on meteorological variables for Tanjung Puting National Park, located on the island of Borneo. A separable model is developed for predicting daily wildfire burn area using variables such as temperature, sea level pressure, humidity, precipitation, visibili...
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| author | Esa Eslami Akane Nishimura Frederic Paik Schoenberg |
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| description | This paper explores wildfire modeling based on meteorological variables for Tanjung Puting National Park, located on the island of Borneo. A separable model is developed for predicting daily wildfire burn area using variables such as temperature, sea level pressure, humidity, precipitation, visibility, and wind speed. Each component in the model is estimated using kernel smoothing and maximum likelihood methods. The data are shown to be largely compatible with the separable model, suggesting that the relationship between wildfire burn area and any of these weather variables in particular does not appear to change significantly depending on the values of the other weather variables. The analysis appears to confirm the findings of previous studies on wildfire in Southern California which indicate that wildfire hazard may be suitably estimated using a simple multiplicative model where the impact of each weather covariate is estimated separately. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4e9439e4f7d6476ab1aa9e7f2c170cd32025-08-20T03:36:34ZengWileyInternational Journal of Forestry Research1687-93681687-93762009-01-01200910.1155/2009/270387270387Impact of Weather Covariates on Wildfire in Tanjung Puting National ParkEsa Eslami0Akane Nishimura1Frederic Paik Schoenberg2Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USADepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 91302, USADepartment of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USAThis paper explores wildfire modeling based on meteorological variables for Tanjung Puting National Park, located on the island of Borneo. A separable model is developed for predicting daily wildfire burn area using variables such as temperature, sea level pressure, humidity, precipitation, visibility, and wind speed. Each component in the model is estimated using kernel smoothing and maximum likelihood methods. The data are shown to be largely compatible with the separable model, suggesting that the relationship between wildfire burn area and any of these weather variables in particular does not appear to change significantly depending on the values of the other weather variables. The analysis appears to confirm the findings of previous studies on wildfire in Southern California which indicate that wildfire hazard may be suitably estimated using a simple multiplicative model where the impact of each weather covariate is estimated separately.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/270387 |
| spellingShingle | Esa Eslami Akane Nishimura Frederic Paik Schoenberg Impact of Weather Covariates on Wildfire in Tanjung Puting National Park International Journal of Forestry Research |
| title | Impact of Weather Covariates on Wildfire in Tanjung Puting National Park |
| title_full | Impact of Weather Covariates on Wildfire in Tanjung Puting National Park |
| title_fullStr | Impact of Weather Covariates on Wildfire in Tanjung Puting National Park |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impact of Weather Covariates on Wildfire in Tanjung Puting National Park |
| title_short | Impact of Weather Covariates on Wildfire in Tanjung Puting National Park |
| title_sort | impact of weather covariates on wildfire in tanjung puting national park |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/270387 |
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