Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Machine learning–based observation-constrained projections reveal elevated global socioeconomic risks from wildfire

  • Yan Yu,
  • Jiafu Mao,
  • Stan D. Wullschleger,
  • Anping Chen,
  • Xiaoying Shi,
  • Yaoping Wang,
  • Forrest M. Hoffman,
  • Yulong Zhang,
  • Eric Pierce

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28853-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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A new study develops a machine learning framework to observationally constrain CMIP6-simulated fire carbon emissions, finding a weaker increase in 21st-century global fires but higher increase in their socioeconomic risks than previously thought.