North Tropical Atlantic influence on western Amazon fire season variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Fernandes, Katia ^a   Baethgen, Walter ^a   Bernardes, Sergio ^b   Defries, Ruth ^c   Dewitt, David G ^a   Goddard, Lisa ^a   Lavado, Waldo ^d   Lee, Dong Eun ^a   Padoch, Christine ^e   Pinedo Vasquez, Miguel ^c   Uriarte, Maria ^c  

^a Lamont Campus   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^d Servicio Nacional de Meteorologa e Hidrologa del Peru   (Peru)

^e INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC BOTANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; FORECASTING; LINEAR REGRESSION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIOMETERS;

CATTLE RANCHING; COUPLED MODELS; COURSE OF ACTION; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; FIRE ACTIVITY; FIRE PREDICTION; LEADTIME; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; LOCAL DECISIONS; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; MODERATE RESOLUTION; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; PREDICTION CONFIDENCE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SEASONAL FORECASTS; SPECTRO-RADIOMETERS; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

FIRES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CATTLE; CLEARCUTTING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DECISION MAKING; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FORECASTING METHOD; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RANCHING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VULNERABILITY; WEATHER STATION;

AMAZONIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

BOS;

EID: 79959453494     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047392     Document Type: Article

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