Detection of non-linearities in the dependence of burn area on fuel age and climatic variables

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-6

  Schoenberg, Frederic Paik ^a   Peng, Roger ^a   Huang, Zhijun ^a   Rundel, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Chaparral; Fire statistics; Fire weather; Fuel moisture; Los Angeles; Precipitation; Temperature; Thresholds; Time since fire

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037265973     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF02053     Document Type: Conference Paper

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