The art of the science: Climate forecasts for wildfire management in the southeastern United States

Climatic Change

Volumn 113, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 1113-1121

  Roncoli, Carla ^a   Breuer, Norman ^b   Zierden, David ^c   Fraisse, Clyde ^d   Broad, Kenneth ^b   Hoogenboom, Gerrit ^e  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Florida   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; CLIMATE FORECASTS; FIRE MANAGEMENT; MATERIAL RESOURCES; PUBLIC SAFETY; RISK FORECASTS; STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION; WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT;

FIRES;

FORECASTING;

CAPACITY BUILDING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECISION MAKING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HUMAN RESOURCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; STAKEHOLDER; TIMBER; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864285522     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0526-1     Document Type: Article

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