Characterizing wildfire regimes in the United States

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 4694-4699

  Malamud, Bruce D ^a   Millington, James D A ^a   Perry, George L W ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bailey ecoregion divisions; Frequency area statistics; Power law distribution; Probabilistic hazard; U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; EARTHQUAKE; FIRE; FOGO SELVAGEM; FOREST; LIGHTNING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECURRENCE RISK; STATISTICS; TOPOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION;

EID: 16344379867     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0500880102     Document Type: Article

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