A North American regional reanalysis climatology of the Haines Index

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 91-103

  Lu, Wei ^a,b   Charney, Joseph J ^c   Zhong, Sharon ^b   Bian, Xindi ^c   Liu, Shuhua ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

fire climate; fire weather forecasting; NARR

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951748718     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF08196     Document Type: Article

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