Climate change and growth scenarios for California wildfire

Climatic Change

Volumn 109, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 445-463

  Westerling, A L ^a   Bryant, B P ^b   Preisler, H K ^c   Holmes, T P ^d   Hidalgo, H G ^e   Das, T ^f   Shrestha, S R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^f CH2MHILL Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURNED AREAS; CALIFORNIA; DEVELOPMENT SCENARIOS; FORESTED AREA; FUTURE CLIMATE; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HOUSING DENSITY; LAND SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; POPULATION GROWTH; SPECIAL REPORT ON EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; TIME-PERIODS; WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE;

CLIMATE MODELS; FIRES; POPULATION STATISTICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND SURFACE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WILDFIRE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855346446     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0329-9     Document Type: Article

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