Spatial and temporal extremes of wildfire sizes in Portugal (19842004)

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 983-991

  De Zea Bermudez, P ^a   Mendes, J ^b   Pereira, J M C ^c   Turkman, K F ^a   Vasconcelos, M J P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b NOVA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SCHOOL NOVA IMS   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Generalized Pareto Distribution; Peaks Over Threshold method

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149134611     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF07044     Document Type: Article

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