Climate warming, wildfire hazard, and wildfire occurrence in coastal eastern Spain

Climatic Change

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 345-357

  Piñol, Josep ^a   Terradas, Jaume ^a   Lloret, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL AREA; NATURAL HAZARD; WILDFIRE;

SPAIN;

EID: 0031911447     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005316632105     Document Type: Article

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