Predicting climate change effects on wildfires requires linking processes across scales

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 99-112

  Macias Fauria, Marc ^a   Michaletz, Sean T ^a   Johnson, Edward A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; FIRES; FORECASTING;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE DYNAMICS; COUPLING PROCESS; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LARGE-SCALES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PROCESS-BASED;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 79961214182     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.92     Document Type: Article

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