Predicted changes in fire weather suggest increases in lightning fire initiation and future area burned in the mixedwood boreal forest

Climatic Change

Volumn 92, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 83-97

  Krawchuk, Meg A ^a   Cumming, Steve G ^b   Flannigan, Mike D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c GREAT LAKES FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DEFORESTATION; DISASTERS; FORECASTING; LIGHTNING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEATHER MODIFICATION;

ALBERTA , CANADA; BOREAL ECOSYSTEMS; BOREAL FORESTS; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; EMPIRICAL ESTIMATES; FIRE ACTIVITIES; FIRE ESCAPES; FIRE GROWTHS; FIRE INITIATIONS; FIRE MANAGEMENTS; FIRE WEATHERS; INITIATION RATES; LIGHTNING ACTIVITIES; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; WEATHER CONDITIONS; WEATHER INDICES;

FIRES;

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LANDSCAPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DEFORESTATION; DISASTERS; DISTRIBUTION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORECASTS; FOREST FIRES; FORESTS; LIGHTNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEATHER;

EID: 58149391815     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-008-9460-7     Document Type: Article

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