Climatology of Alaskan wildfires with special emphasis on the extreme year of 2004

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 459-472

  Wendler, G ^a   Conner, J ^b   Moore, B ^a   Shulski, M ^a,c   Stuefer, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b Fairbanks North Star Borough   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ANOMALY; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; FOREST FIRE; GEOPOTENTIAL; LIGHTNING; SMOKE; SUMMER; THUNDERSTORM; WILDFIRE;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

PICEA; POPULUS;

EID: 79957528662     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-010-0357-9     Document Type: Article

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