Medium-range forecasting for the number of daily forest fires

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 725-732

  Garcia Diez, A ^a   Rivas Soriano, L ^b   Garcia Diez, E L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c Facultad de Ciencias   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ECMWF; FIRE; FOREST; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0030470233     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1996)035<0725:MRFFTN>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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