Articles | Volume 16, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-57-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-57-2019
Research article
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11 Jan 2019
Research article |  | 11 Jan 2019

Emergent relationships with respect to burned area in global satellite observations and fire-enabled vegetation models

Matthias Forkel, Niels Andela, Sandy P. Harrison, Gitta Lasslop, Margreet van Marle, Emilio Chuvieco, Wouter Dorigo, Matthew Forrest, Stijn Hantson, Angelika Heil, Fang Li, Joe Melton, Stephen Sitch, Chao Yue, and Almut Arneth

Model code and software

randomForest: Breiman and Cutler's Random Forests for Classification and Regression L. Breiman and A. Cutler https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=randomForest

ICEbox: Individual Conditional Expectation Plot Toolbox A. Goldstein, A. Kapelner, and J. Bleich https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ICEbox

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Short summary
Weather, humans, and vegetation control the occurrence of fires. In this study we find that global fire–vegetation models underestimate the strong increase of burned area with higher previous-season plant productivity in comparison to satellite-derived relationships.
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