A lightning-caused wildfire ignition forecasting model for operational use

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Funding Acknowledgements

Nicholas Read acknowledges the support of the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre for funding through the project 'Probability of Fire Ignition and Escalation'. Tom J. Duff acknowledges the support of the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning as part of the integrated Forest and Ecosystem Research (iFER) program. Peter G. Taylor would like to acknowledge the support of the Australian Research Council (ARC) through Laureate Fellowship FL130100039 and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS). He would also like to thank The Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre for funding through the project 'Probability of Fire Ignition and Escalation'. We would like to recognise the constructive comments of our reviewers that helped improved our work.