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ArticleScientific reports2023

Accuracy of tropical peat and non-peat fire forecasts enhanced by simulating hydrology.

Symon Mezbahuddin, Tadas Nikonovas, Allan Spessa, Robert F Grant, Muhammad Ali Imron, Stefan H Doerr, Gareth D Clay

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Symon MezbahuddinDepartment of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E3, Canada. mezbahud@ualberta.ca.
Tadas NikonovasDepartment of Geography, Centre for Wildfire Research, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK.
Allan SpessaDepartment of Geography, Centre for Wildfire Research, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK.
Robert F GrantDepartment of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E3, Canada.
Muhammad Ali ImronFaculty of Forestry, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Jalan Agro No. 1 Bulaksumur, Yogyakarta, 55281, Indonesia.
Stefan H DoerrDepartment of Geography, Centre for Wildfire Research, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK.
Gareth D ClayDepartment of Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.

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Abstract

Soil moisture deficits and water table dynamics are major biophysical controls on peat and non-peat fires in Indonesia. Development of modern fire forecasting models in Indonesia is hampered by the lack of scalable hydrologic datasets or scalable hydrology models that can inform the fire forecasting models on soil hydrologic behaviour. Existing fire forecasting models in Indonesia use weather data-derived fire probability indices, which often do not adequately proxy the sub-surface hydrologic dynamics. Here we demonstrate that soil moisture and water table dynamics can be simulated successfully across tropical peatlands and non-peatland areas by using a process-based eco-hydrology model (ecosys) and publicly available data for weather, soil, and management. Inclusion of these modelled water table depth and soil moisture contents significantly improves the accuracy of a neural network model in predicting active fires at two-weekly time scale. This constitutes an important step towards devising an operational fire early warning system for Indonesia.

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