Temporal and spatial structure in a daily wildfire-start data set from the western United States (198696)

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 8-17

  Bartlein, P J ^a   Hostetler, S W ^b   Shafer, S L ^c   Holman, J O ^b   Solomon, A M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual cycle of fires; Fire incidence; Hovm ller diagram; Human caused fires; Lightning caused fires; Time?space plots; Time?space variation; US National Fire Occurrence Database; Wildfire outbreaks

Indexed keywords

EID: 39449115422     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF07022     Document Type: Article

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