Model-specification uncertainty in future area burned by wildfires in Canada
Yan Boulanger A D , Marc-André Parisien B and Xianli Wang C
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A Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, 1055 du P.E.P.S., PO Box 10380, Station Sainte-Foy, Québec Qc, G1V 4C7, Canada.
B Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, 5320 122nd Street NW, Edmonton AB, T6H 3S5, Canada.
C Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Great Lakes Forestry Centre, 1219 Queen Street East, Sault Ste Marie, ON P6A 2E5, Canada.
D Corresponding author. Email: yan.boulanger@canada.ca
International Journal of Wildland Fire 27(3) 164-175 https://doi.org/10.1071/WF17123
Submitted: 17 August 2017 Accepted: 16 January 2018 Published: 23 March 2018
Abstract
Climate change will drive significant changes in annual area burned (burning rates) in the boreal forest although the trends, which are highly variable among studies, which may be caused by model specifications. In order to investigate this, we used 100 models predicting burning rates that are based on two predictor datasets (annual or 30-year averages) and five statistical algorithms (generalised linear model (GLM), random forest, gradient-boosted model (GBM), regression trees, multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS)) to build a consensus model projecting future burning rates in boreal Canada with three global climate models (GCMs) (CanESM2, HadGEM and MIROC) and three anthropogenic climate forcing scenarios (RCP 2.6, RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5). Results of the ensemble models were then used to quantify and map the uncertainty created by model specifications. The consensus model projects strong increase (>4-fold by 2080s) in burning rates, particularly under high climate-forcing scenarios. Even with very high goodness-of-fit in the consensus model, the model-specification uncertainty for future periods (>200%) could still be much higher than that of different GCMs and RCP scenarios. When tallied, we show that the total uncertainty could greatly hinder our ability to detect significant trends in burning rates for much of Canada at the end of the 21st century.
Additional keywords: boreal forest, climate change, consensus model, forest fires, uncertainty.
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