Index sensitivity analysis applied to the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index and the McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 298-312

  Dowdy, Andrew J ^a,b   Mills, Graham A ^a,b   Finkele, Klara ^a,b   de Groot, William ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BUSHFIRE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bushfire; Extreme; Forecasting; Indices; Percentiles; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; FIRE HAZARDS; FORECASTING; RAIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WIND;

BUSHFIRE; EXTREME; INDICES; PERCENTILES; WILDFIRE;

FIRES;

BUSHFIRE; EXTREME EVENT; FORECASTING METHOD; FOREST FIRE; INDEX METHOD; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; CANADA; MCARTHUR RIVER; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

EID: 77956820197     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.170     Document Type: Article

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