Assessing the impact of climate change on extreme fire weather events over southeastern Australia

Climate Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 159-172

  Hasson, A E A ^a,c   Mills, G A ^a,b   Timbal, B ^a   Walsh, K ^c  

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

^b BUSHFIRE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Fire weather; Strong cold front

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959568524     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr00817     Document Type: Article

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