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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yan Yu, Jiafu Mao, Stan D. Wullschleger, Anping Chen, Xiaoying Shi, Yaoping Wang, Forrest M. Hoffman, Yulong Zhang, Eric Pierce
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28853-0