Forest fire burn areas in Western Canada modeled as self-similar criticality

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 211, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 221-234

  Tebbens, Sarah F ^a   Burroughs, Stephen M ^b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA   (United States)

Author keywords

Power laws; Scaling; Self organized criticality; Self similar criticality; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

FIRE CONTROL SYSTEMS; FIRES; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGIONAL PLANNING;

POWER LAWS; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY; SELF-SIMILAR CRITICALITY; WILDFIRE;

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS;

EID: 27644471877     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2005.08.013     Document Type: Article

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