Temporal scaling behavior of human-caused fires and their connection to relative humidity of the atmosphere

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 85-89

  Wang, Jian ^a   Song, Weiguo ^a   Zheng, Hongyang ^a   Telesca, Luciano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Allan factor; Fano factor; Fire pattern; Scaling behavior; Weather parameter

Indexed keywords

ALLAN FACTORS; DISTRIBUTION LAW; FANO FACTOR; FOREST FIRES; HIGH POPULATION DENSITY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN FACTORS; NATURAL FACTORS; NATURAL SYSTEMS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SCALING BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL SCALING; TIME-SCALING; URBAN FIRE; WEATHER PARAMETERS; WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DEFORESTATION; DISASTERS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOISTURE; SCALING LAWS;

FIRES;

DISASTER; FOREST FIRE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SCALE EFFECT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER MODIFICATION;

DEFORESTATION; DISASTERS; FIRES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMIDITY; MOISTURE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 70449717643     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.03.007     Document Type: Article

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