Machine learning in environmental research: common pitfalls and best practices

JJ Zhu, M Yang, ZJ Ren - Environmental Science & Technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Machine learning (ML) is increasingly used in environmental research to process large data
sets and decipher complex relationships between system variables. However, due to the …

A review of machine learning applications in wildfire science and management

P Jain, SCP Coogan, SG Subramanian… - Environmental …, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
Artificial intelligence has been applied in wildfire science and management since the 1990s,
with early applications including neural networks and expert systems. Since then, the field …

Global biogeography and projection of soil antibiotic resistance genes

D Zheng, G Yin, M Liu, L Hou, Y Yang… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Although edaphic antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) pose serious threats to human well-
being, their spatially explicit patterns and responses to environmental constraints at the …

A machine learning method to estimate PM2. 5 concentrations across China with remote sensing, meteorological and land use information

G Chen, S Li, LD Knibbs, NAS Hamm, W Cao… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Machine learning algorithms have very high predictive ability. However, no
study has used machine learning to estimate historical concentrations of PM 2.5 (particulate …

Wildfire and prescribed burning impacts on air quality in the United States

DA Jaffe, SM O'Neill, NK Larkin, AL Holder… - Journal of the Air & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Air quality impacts from wildfires have been dramatic in recent years, with millions of people
exposed to elevated and sometimes hazardous fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) …

Estimating PM2.5 Concentrations in the Conterminous United States Using the Random Forest Approach

X Hu, JH Belle, X Meng, A Wildani… - … science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
To estimate PM2. 5 concentrations, many parametric regression models have been
developed, while nonparametric machine learning algorithms are used less often and …

Spatiotemporal analysis of haze in Beijing based on the multi-convolution model

L Yin, L Wang, W Huang, S Liu, B Yang, W Zheng - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
As a kind of air pollution, haze has complex temporal and spatial characteristics. From the
perspective of time, haze has different causes and levels of pollution in different seasons …

Identifying the essential flood conditioning factors for flood prone area mapping using machine learning techniques

MS Tehrany, S Jones, F Shabani - Catena, 2019 - Elsevier
River flooding can be a highly destructive natural hazard. Numerous approaches have been
used to study the phenomenon; however, insufficient knowledge regarding flood …

An Ensemble Machine-Learning Model To Predict Historical PM2.5 Concentrations in China from Satellite Data

Q Xiao, HH Chang, G Geng, Y Liu - Environmental science & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The long satellite aerosol data record enables assessments of historical PM2. 5 level in
regions where routine PM2. 5 monitoring began only recently. However, most previous …

[HTML][HTML] A comparison of linear regression, regularization, and machine learning algorithms to develop Europe-wide spatial models of fine particles and nitrogen …

J Chen, K de Hoogh, J Gulliver, B Hoffmann… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Empirical spatial air pollution models have been applied extensively to assess exposure in
epidemiological studies with increasingly sophisticated and complex statistical algorithms …