Regional and historical fire weather patterns pertinent to the January 1994 Sydney bushfires

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

Volumn 1996, Issue 116, 1996, Pages 27-36

  Gill, A Malcolm ^a   Moore, Peter H R ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blue Mountains; Bushfire; Sydney; Weather; Wollongong

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002171079     PISSN: 0370047X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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