Synoptic-scale and mesoscale environments conducive to forest fires during the October 2003 extreme fire event in Southern California

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 553-579

  Huang, Chenjie ^a,b   Lin, Y L ^c   Kaplan, M L ^d   Charney, J J ^e  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b Wyle Information Systems   (United States)

^c North Carolina Agricutural and Technical State University   (United States)

^d DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL RANGE; COLD FRONT; CRITICAL LEVEL; DOWNSLOPE; DRY AIR; FIRE EVENT; FOREST FIRES; HIGH-PRESSURE RIDGES; INTERNAL BOUNDARY; JET STREAKS; MESOSCALE; MOUNTAIN WAVE; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; PARTIAL RESONANCE; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THREE-STAGE PROCESS; WAVEBREAKING;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORESTATION; DISASTERS; FIRES; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

FIRE HAZARDS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BOUNDARY LAYER; COLD FRONT; EXTREME EVENT; FOREST FIRE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TURBULENCE; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTERS; DEFORESTATION; DISASTERS; FIRES; HAZARDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SIMULATION; TURBULENCE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67549107538     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC1818.1     Document Type: Article

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