Sensitivity of fire weather index to different reanalysis products in the Iberian Peninsula

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 699-708

  Bedia, J ^a   Herrera, S ^a   Gutierrez J M ^a   Zavala, G ^b   Urbieta, I R ^b   Moreno, J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WILDFIRE; WIND VELOCITY;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84859116960     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-12-699-2012     Document Type: Article

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