A climatological study of the Keetch/Byram drought index and fire activity in the Hawaiian Islands

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 133, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 17-27

  Dolling, Klaus ^a   Chu, Pao Shin ^a   Fujioka, Francis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire activity; Keetch Byram drought index; Total area burned

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOIL MOISTURE; WILDFIRE;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 28844497350     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2005.07.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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