An inventory-based approach for modeling singletree storm damage - experiences with the winter storm of 1999 in southwestern Germany

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1636-1652

  Schmidt, Matthias ^a   Hanewinkel, Marc ^b   Kändler, Gerald ^b   Kublin, Edgar ^b   Kohnle, Ulrich ^b  

^a Northwest German Forest Research Station   (Germany)

^b Forest Research Institute of Baden Wurttemberg   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIES ALBA; DAMAGE PROBABILITY; DAMAGE RISKS; DECIDUOUS TREES; DIAMETER-AT-BREAST HEIGHTS; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; DOUGLAS FIR; FIELD PARAMETERS; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST SERVICE; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; GERMANY; HOTSPOTS; INDIVIDUAL TREE; MISSING INFORMATION; NORWAY SPRUCE; PICEA ABIES (L.) KARST; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; SCOTS PINE; SILVER FIR; SITE CONDITIONS; SPATIAL TRENDS; STATISTICAL MODELS; STORM DAMAGE; TREE HEIGHT; WINTER STORMS;

FLOW FIELDS; FORESTRY; LOCATION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RISK PERCEPTION; SOILS; STORMS;

DAMAGE DETECTION;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; DIAMETER; EVERGREEN FOREST; FLOW FIELD; FOREST INVENTORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STORM DAMAGE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WATERLOGGING;

DAMAGE; DETECTION; FORESTRY; GERMANY; PROBABILITY; SOIL; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; GERMANY;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA; CONIFEROPHYTA; LARIX; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 77958050881     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X10-099     Document Type: Article

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