Using teleconnections to predict wildfires in Mississippi

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2804-2811

  Dixon, P Grady ^a   Goodrich, Gregory B ^b   Cooke, William H ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC TELECONNECTIONS; INDEX VALUES; MISSISSIPPI; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RISK MODELING; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TELECONNECTION INDICES; TELECONNECTIONS; UNITED STATES;

FIRES;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RISK PERCEPTION; TELECONNECTION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WILDFIRE;

MISSISSIPPI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 52149085411     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2297.1     Document Type: Article

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