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Article Dans Une Revue Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Année : 2023

Integrating burned area as a complementary performance measure for daily fire danger assessment: A large-scale test

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Fire indices are used to describe the weather conditions that influence fire ignition and fire behavior. Although many studies analyzed their performance on fire occurrence at daily resolution, few focused on their ability to capture the burned area, which is usually analyzed at the weekly or monthly scale. Cumulative Logarithmic Area Ranking Efficiency (CLARE) is a newly developed metric that takes burned area into account when assessing daily fire danger. The use of CLARE in addition to the Area Under the receiver operating characteristic Curve (AUC) in the selection process of fire indices or fire occurrence models provides a complementary metric that allows for the evaluation of a model's ability to assess burned area. We evaluated the CLARE performance in 11 regions ranging from the European Alps to the Mediterranean basin. We also assessed the impact of (i) different groups of input variables (meteorological variables vs. fire indices), (ii) model complexity in terms of number of variables, and (iii) the modeling approach (Generalized Linear Models vs. Maxent) on the performance of CLARE. We found that models that achieve a high AUC for predicting fire occurrence may fail to show a high performance when predicting burned area. Using a multi-variable modeling approach is likely to provide higher CLARE performance than using single-variable fire index models, especially among models that have high AUC. Moreover, using this approach led to better multi-variable meteorological model performance than singlevariable fire index models for some regions. This may be particularly valuable for regions where the calculation of fire indices is not possible. Finally, the differences between the modeling approaches were mainly related to the region or input variable groups. Overall, our results highlight that including burned area in the fire danger assessment process is feasible across a wide range of environmental conditions and provides valuable insights.
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hal-04230635 , version 1 (06-10-2023)

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İsmail Bekar, G. Boris Pezzatti, Marco Conedera, Harald Vacik, Juli G Pausas, et al.. Integrating burned area as a complementary performance measure for daily fire danger assessment: A large-scale test. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2023, 342, pp.1-10. ⟨10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109746⟩. ⟨hal-04230635⟩
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