Investigating the relationship of meteorological/climatological conditions and wildfires in Greece

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 112, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 113-126

  Papadopoulos, A ^a   Paschalidou, A K ^a   Kassomenos, P A ^a   McGregor, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATOLOGY; HUMIDITY; MAP; METEOROLOGY; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WILDFIRE;

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EID: 84875377192     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0726-7     Document Type: Article

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