On developing a historical fire weather data-set for Australia

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-14

  Lucas, Christopher ^a  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FIRE HISTORY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 78149443714     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.6001.001     Document Type: Article

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