Identifying spatial clustering properties of the 1997-2003 Liguria (Northern Italy) forest-fire sequence

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1364-1370

  Telesca, Luciano ^a   Amatulli, Giuseppe ^a   Lasaponara, Rosa ^a   Lovallo, Michele ^a   Santulli, Adriano ^a,b  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CORRELATION INTEGRAL METHOD; CYCLIC BEHAVIOR; SEASONAL CYCLES;

CORRELATION METHODS;

EID: 33845409258     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2005.11.075     Document Type: Article

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