
\chapter*{\textbf{\Huge List of Abbreviations}}
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\begin{abbreviations}
    \item[AF] Active Fire
    \item[BP] Before Present
    \item[BIC] Bayesian Information Criteria
    \item[CG] Cloud-to-Ground (lightning stirkes)
    \item[CHIRPS] Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station
    \item[CI] Confidence Interval
    \item[CWD] Climatological Water Deficit
    \item[DAG] Directed Acyclic Graph
    \item[ECMW] European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts
    \item[EM] Electromagnetic
    \item[ERA5] Fifth generation European ReAnalysis (climate dataset)
    \item[ERA5-Land] Land component of ERA5
    \item[FRP] Fire Radiative Power
    \item[GFA] Global Fire Atlas
    \item[GLD360] Vaisala Global Lightning Detection Network
    \item[HPDI] Highest Posterior Density Interval
    \item[IBGE] Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística
    \item[ICMBio] Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade
    \item[IFM] Integrated Fire Management
    \item[IPCC] Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
    \item[ITCZ] Intertropical Convergence Zone
    \item[LF] Low Frequency
    \item[LLS] Lightning Location System
    \item[MCWD] Maximum Climatological Water Deficit
    \item[MF] Medium Frequency
    \item[MODIS] Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
    \item[PARNA] Parque Nacional (National Park in Portuguese) 
    \item[PCA] Principal Component Analysis
    \item[PET] Potential Evapotranspiration
    \item[RDA] Redundancy Analysis
    \item[RCP] Representative Concentration Pathway
    \item[sECDF] smoothed Empirical Cumulative Distribution Function
    \item[TRMM] Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
    \item[UAV] Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
    \item[VHF] Very High Frequency
    \item[VIIRS] Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite
    \item[VLF] Very Low Frequency
    \item[VPD] Vapour Pressure Deficit
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