Wildfire potential evaluation during a drought event with a regional climate model and NDVI

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 418-428

  Liu, Yongqiang ^a   Stanturf, John ^a   Goodrick, Scott ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; KBDI; NDVI; Regional climate modeling; Soil moisture; Wildfire potential

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; DROUGHT; FLOOD; NDVI; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WILDFIRE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956886641     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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