Fire simulations in the everglades landscape using parallel programming

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 93, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 113-124

  Wu, Yegang ^a   Sklar, Fred H ^a   Gopu, Kishore ^a   Rutchey, Ken ^a  

^a EVERGLADES DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cladium jamaicense; Computer simulation; Everglades; Fire; Landscape; Parallel programming; Typha spp.

Indexed keywords

FIRE; MODELLING; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; WETLAND;

USA, FLORIDA, EVERGLADES;

TYPHA; TYPHACEAE;

EID: 0030590819     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3800(95)00218-9     Document Type: Article

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