Impact of climate variability on summer fires in a Mediterranean environment (northeastern Iberian Peninsula)

Climatic Change

Volumn 116, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 665-678

  Turco, Marco ^a,b   Llasat, Maria Carmen ^a   von Hardenberg, Jost ^c   Provenzale, Antonello ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; FIRE HAZARDS; FIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SUMMER PRECIPITATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FUEL; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUMMER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CLIMATES; DEFORESTATION; FIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CATALONIA; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SPAIN;

EID: 84872652635     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0505-6     Document Type: Article

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