Modeling Large Fire Frequency and Burned Area in Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystems with Poisson Models

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 483-493

  Jiang, Yueyang ^a   Zhuang, Qianlai ^a,b   Mandallaz, Daniel ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Compound Poisson model; Ecozone; Large fire occurrence; Large fires; Poisson model; Threshold probability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ECOSYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; PROBABILITY;

COMPOUND POISSON; ECOZONE; FIRE OCCURRENCES; POISSON MODEL; THRESHOLD PROBABILITY;

FIRES;

CARBON CYCLE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; POISSON RATIO; SEASONAL VARIATION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WILDFIRE;

CANADA;

EID: 84865963770     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10666-012-9307-5     Document Type: Article

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