Estimating future burned areas under changing climate in the EU-Mediterranean countries

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 450-451, Issue , 2013, Pages 209-222

  Amatulli, Giuseppe ^a   Camia, Andrea ^a   San Miguel Ayanz, Jesús ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climate change; Fire danger; Forest fire modeling; Future burned area; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

BURNED AREAS; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; FIRE DANGER; FOREST FIRES; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; MULTIVARIATE ADAPTIVE REGRESSION SPLINES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS;

DECISION TREES; DEFORESTATION; FIRES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINEAR REGRESSION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; FOREST FIRE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

ARTICLE; CANADIAN FOREST FIRE WEATHER INDEX; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM FIRE HISTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FOREST FIRE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ADAPTIVE REGRESSION SPLINES; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM FOREST; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPEAN UNION; FIRES; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TREES;

DECISION MAKING; DEFORESTATION; FOREST FIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84875273448     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.02.014     Document Type: Article

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