Assessment of fuel dryness index on mediterranean vegetation

Joint Meeting of the Sixth Symposium on FIre and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 227-231

  Spano, Donatella ^a   Duce, Pierpaolo ^b   Snyder, Richard L ^c   Zara, Pierpaolo ^b   Ventura, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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