用可解释机器学习模型,全球预测雷击引发的野火风险。
Global Lightning-Ignited Wildfires Prediction and Climate Change Projections based on Explainable Machine Learning Models
- 构建全局适用的雷击野火预测模型,区分人为与雷击起火。
- 发现过去十年气候变暖使雷击野火风险持续上升。
- 通过可解释AI分析影响因素,为区域预警提供依据。
野火对人类社会构成重大自然灾难威胁,并加速气候变化。尽管全球范围内由人类活动引发的野火更为频繁,但雷击引发的野火在碳排放中占重要地位,且在某些地区导致了绝大多数燃烧面积。现有计算模型,尤其是基于机器学习的模型,通常针对特定区域设计,难以实现全球应用。本研究提出一种用于全球尺度表征和预测雷击引发野火的机器学习模型,通过分类雷击与人为起火,并结合气象条件、植被等多维度因素,高精度估算雷击引发火灾的概率。利用这些模型,我们分析了雷击野火的季节性与空间分布趋势,揭示了气候变化的影响。通过可解释人工智能(XAI)框架分析各特征对模型的影响,结果表明雷击与人为野火存在显著全球差异。此外,我们证明即使在不足十年的时间跨度内,气候变化已稳步增加了全球雷击野火的风险。这一发现凸显了为不同类型的野火开发专用预测模型和火险指数的紧迫性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Wildfires pose a significant natural disaster risk to populations and contribute to accelerated climate change. As wildfires are also affected by climate change, extreme wildfires are becoming increasingly frequent. Although they occur less frequently globally than those sparked by human activities, lightning-ignited wildfires play a substantial role in carbon emissions and account for the majority of burned areas in certain regions. While existing computational models, especially those based on machine learning, aim to predict lightning-ignited wildfires, they are typically tailored to specific regions with unique characteristics, limiting their global applicability. In this study, we present machine learning models designed to characterize and predict lightning-ignited wildfires on a global scale. Our approach involves classifying lightning-ignited versus anthropogenic wildfires, and estimating with high accuracy the probability of lightning to ignite a fire based on a wide spectrum of factors such as meteorological conditions and vegetation. Utilizing these models, we analyze seasonal and spatial trends in lightning-ignited wildfires shedding light on the impact of climate change on this phenomenon. We analyze the influence of various features on the models using eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) frameworks. Our findings highlight significant global differences between anthropogenic and lightning-ignited wildfires. Moreover, we demonstrate that, even over a short time span of less than a decade, climate changes have steadily increased the global risk of lightning-ignited wildfires. This distinction underscores the imperative need for dedicated predictive models and fire weather indices tailored specifically to each type of wildfire.
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