Spatial variation in extreme winds predicts large wildfire locations in chaparral ecosystems

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Moritz, Max A ^a   Moody, Tadashi J ^a   Krawchuk, Meg A ^a   Hughes, Mimi ^b,c   Hall, Alex ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE REGIONS; FIRE ACTIVITY; FIRE DANGER; FIRE HISTORY; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FIRE WEATHER; HIGH RESOLUTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; WIND EVENTS; WIND PATTERNS; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES;

ECOSYSTEMS; WIND; ECOLOGY; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; URBAN GROWTH;

FIRES;

CHAPARRAL; FIRE MANAGEMENT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SIMULATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; WILDFIRE;

CALIFORNIA; SANTA ANA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77649177583     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041735     Document Type: Article

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