Abrupt surface drying and fire weather Part 1: Overview and case study of the South Australian fires of 11 January 2005

Australian Meteorological Magazine

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 299-309

  Mills, Graham A ^a,b,c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BUSHFIRE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; FIRE; HUMIDITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE; WAVELENGTH;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EYRE PENINSULA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 67649122896     PISSN: 00049743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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