Lightning-caused fires in Central Spain: Development of a probability model of occurrence for two Spanish regions

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 162-163, Issue , 2012, Pages 35-43

  Nieto, Héctor ^a,b   Aguado, Inmaculada ^a   García, Mariano ^a   Chuvieco, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fire meteorological indices; Forest fires; Lightning; Logistic regression

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST FIRE; LIGHTNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THUNDERSTORM;

ARAGON; MADRID [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

EID: 84860601967     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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