🔥 New Paper Alert! SIG team members co-authored "Quantifying the sampling error on burn counts in Monte-Carlo wildfire simulations using Poisson and Gamma distributions." This paper provides improved guidelines for finding the number of fires that we need to simulate in order to produce maps of fire risk. This replaces vague rules of thumb and time-consuming trial and error with simple mathematical formulas, making life easier for fire modelers. These findings promise to streamline simulation sizing and convergence assessment, saving time and resources. This work is leveraged in v3 of First Street’s #FireFactor which is anticipated to be released in June https://lnkd.in/gpNjtMmc 🌲📊 #WildfireResearch #Innovation
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🔬🔥 GsAL Program Director David Saah was part of a team led by Valentin Waeselynck that conducted a study that offers a detailed, quantitative analysis of the sampling error in Monte-Carlo wildfire simulations. Here's what you need to know: 📊 Key Findings: 🔥Sampling Error in Burn Counts: Variability in predicted burn counts due to the randomness and finiteness of simulated fires. 🔥Poisson Distribution: Marginal burn counts closely follow this distribution under typical conditions. 🔥Gamma Distributions: Suitable for summarizing remaining uncertainty through Bayesian updating. 🔥Coefficient of Variation: Inversely proportional to the square root of the expected burn count. 🔥Practical Guidelines: Derived for determining the number of simulated fires and estimating sampling error, using a power law to express the required number of simulated years. 📈 Impact: These results have the potential to streamline wildfire modeling by reducing the need for iterative experiments offering faster and more accurate statistical answers. Read the full study for more insights: https://lnkd.in/eR4bdWXS #WildfireSimulation #StatisticalModeling #FireScience #MonteCarlo #EnvironmentalResearch #BayesianStatistics #SpatialInformaticsGroup
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