Impact of Weather Covariates on Wildfire in Tanjung Puting National Park

Esa A. Eslami
M.S., 2008
Advisor: Frederic Paik Schoenberg
This paper explores wildfire modeling based on meteorological variables for Tanjung Puting National Park, located on the island of Borneo. Based on the point process models developed in other papers to describe wildfires in Los Angeles County, a separable, or entirely multiplicative, model is developed and each individual component then estimated using kernel smoothing and parametric estimation. Bandwidth selection and tests for separability are explored as are problems that may arise due to the specific data.
2008