Evaluation of the Canadian fire weather index system in an eastern Mediterranean environment

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-93

  Dimitrakopoulos, A P ^a   Bemmerzouk, A M ^b   Mitsopoulos, I D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b MEDITERRANEAN AGRONOMIC INSTITUTE OF CHANIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

CFFDRS; Fire danger; Fire weather; Forest fires; Fuel moisture; FWI; Greece; Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); DEFORESTATION; DROUGHT; FIRE HAZARDS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SOIL MOISTURE;

CFFDRS; FIRE DANGER; FIRE WEATHER; FOREST FIRES; FUEL MOISTURE; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN;

FIRES;

CORRELATION; DROUGHT; FIRE; FOREST FIRE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; RANDOM WALK METHOD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CRETE [GREECE]; GREECE;

EID: 79951820136     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.214     Document Type: Article

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