The Sydney Australia wildfires of January 1994 - Meteorological conditions and high resolution numerical modeling experiments

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 145-154

  Speer, Milton S ^a   Leslie, Lance M ^b   Colquhoun, John R ^a   Mitchell, Ewan ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mesoscale Meteorological conditions; Numerical modelling; Southeastern Australia

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030504501     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF9960145     Document Type: Article

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