Circulation patterns, wildfire risk and wildfire occurrence at continental Spain

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 35, Issue 9-12, 2010, Pages 553-560

  Rasilla, Domingo F ^a   García Codron, Juan Carlos ^a   Carracedo, Virginia ^a   Diego, Concepción ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Iberian Peninsula; Synoptic climatology; Very large wildfires; Weather related wildfire risk

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; IBERIAN PENINSULA; LONG-TERM CLIMATE VARIABILITY; MULTIVARIATE TECHNIQUES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SYNOPTIC CLIMATOLOGY; VERY LARGE WILDFIRES; WILDFIRE RISKS;

FIRES;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; FOREST FIRE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WEATHER MODIFICATION; WILDFIRE;

ANALYSIS; COMPONENTS; DEFORESTATION; FIRES; METEOROLOGY;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; SPAIN;

EID: 77954960073     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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