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PYROCAST: a Machine Learning Pipeline to Forecast Pyrocumulonimbus (PyroCb) Clouds

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Pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds are storm clouds generated by extreme wildfires. PyroCbs are associated with unpredictable, and therefore dangerous, wildfire spread. They can also inject smoke particles and trace gases into the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere, affecting the Earth's climate. As global temperatures increase, these previously rare events are becoming more common. Being able to predict which fires are likely to generate pyroCb is therefore key to climate adaptation in wildfire-prone areas. This paper introduces PYROCAST, a pipeline for pyroCb analysis and forecasting. The pipeline's first two components, a pyroCb database and a pyroCb forecast model, are presented. The database brings together geostationary imagery and environmental data for over 148 pyroCb events across North America, Australia, and Russia between 2018 and 2022. Random Forests, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), and CNNs pretrained with Auto-Encoders were tested to predict the generation of pyroCb for a given fire six hours in advance. The best model predicted pyroCb with an AUC of 0.90 ± 0.04.
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insu-03873215 , version 1 (26-11-2022)

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Kenza Tazi, Emiliano Diaz Salas-Porras, Ashwin Braude, Daniel Okoh, Kara D. Lamb, et al.. PYROCAST: a Machine Learning Pipeline to Forecast Pyrocumulonimbus (PyroCb) Clouds. 2022. ⟨insu-03873215⟩
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