Impact of drought on wildland fires in Greece: Implications of climatic change?

Climatic Change

Volumn 109, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 331-347

  Dimitrakopoulos, Alexandros P ^a   Vlahou, M ^a   Anagnostopoulou, Ch G ^a   Mitsopoulos, I D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CHANGES; FIRE ACTIVITY; HOT REGIONS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; SUMMER DROUGHTS; WESTERN GREECE; WILDLAND FIRE;

DROUGHT;

FIRES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DROUGHT STRESS; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; STANDARDIZATION; WILDFIRE;

GREECE;

EID: 81555203547     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0026-8     Document Type: Article

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