Modelling the wind damage probability in forests in Southwestern Germany for the 1999 winter storm 'Lothar'

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 543-554

  Schindler, Dirk ^a   Grebhan, Karin ^a   Albrecht, Axel ^b   Schönborn, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Forest Research Institute of Baden Wuerttemberg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baden Wuerttemberg; Logistic regression analysis; Storm 'Lothar'; Weights of evidence methodology; Wind damage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE; WIND;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; TREES; WIND;

EID: 71249162364     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-009-0242-3     Document Type: Article

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