The relationship between fire activity and fire weather indices at different stages of the growing season in Finland

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 285-302

  Tanskanen, Heidi ^a   Venäläinen, Ari ^b  

^a Finnish Meteorological Institute ^*  (Finland)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

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