Atmospheric and fuel conditions related to the Puerto Madryn Fire of 21 January, 1994

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 361-370

  Dentoni, M C ^a   Defosse G E ^b   Labraga, J C ^c   Del Valle, H F ^c  

^a Universidad National de la Patagonia   (Argentina)

^b Centro de Investigacion y Extension Forestal Andino   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; FIRES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALERT SYSTEMS; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; FIRE BEHAVIOUR; FUEL COMPOSITIONS; LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; WIND DIRECTIONS;

FUELS;

AIR QUALITY; AIRFLOW; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXTREME EVENT; HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WILDFIRE;

ARGENTINA; CHUBUT; PUERTO MADRYN;

EID: 0041814627     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482701003127     Document Type: Article

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