Analysis of lightning-induced forest fires in Austria

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 183-193

  Müller, Mortimer M ^a   Vacik, Harald ^a   Diendorfer, Gerhard ^b   Arpaci, Alexander ^a   Formayer, Herbert ^a   Gossow, Hartmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b Austrian Electrotechnical Association (OVE)   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DETECTION METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST FIRE; LIGHTNING; PROBABILITY;

AUSTRIA;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 84871931279     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0653-7     Document Type: Article

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