Evaluation of the performance of meteorological forest fire indices for German federal states

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 287, Issue , 2013, Pages 123-131

  Holsten, Anne ^a   Dominic, Anto Raja ^a   Costa, Luís ^a   Kropp, Jürgen P ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baumgartner; Burnt area; Climate change; Fire index; Nesterov; Scenario

Indexed keywords

BAUMGARTNER; BRANDENBURG; BURNT AREAS; CLIMATE PROJECTION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EXPLANATORY POWER; FIRE RISK INDEX; FIRE RISKS; FIRE STATISTICS; FIRE WEATHER INDEX; FOREST FIRES; FOREST MANAGERS; MEDIAN CORRELATION; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; MONTHLY SCALE; NESTEROV; PREDICTIVE CAPACITY; PREDICTIVE POWER; PREVENTIVE MEASURES; SCENARIO; SUMMER MONTHS; TIME-PERIODS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION;

FIRES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FEDERAL SYSTEM; FORECASTING METHOD; FOREST FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; RISK FACTOR; STAND STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

DEFORESTATION; FOREST FIRES; GERMANY; INDEXING; SEASONAL VARIATION;

BRANDENBURG [GERMANY]; GERMANY;

EID: 84867424395     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.08.035     Document Type: Article

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