Detecting the effect of climate change on Canadian forest fires

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 18, 2004, Pages

  Gillett, N P ^a   Weaver, A J ^a   Zwiers, F W ^b   Flannigan, M D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

0315 Atmospheric composition and structure: Biosphere atmosphere interactions; 1610 Global Change: Atmosphere (0315, 0325); 1620 Global change: Climate dynamics (3309); 1630 Global change: Impact phenomena; 9350 Information related to geographic region: North America

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SULFATE MINERALS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

COUPLED CLIMATE MODELS; FOREST FIRES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST FIRE; GREENHOUSE GAS; SULFATE;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 10644251823     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020876     Document Type: Article

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