On the projection of future fire danger conditions with various instantaneous/mean-daily data sources

Climatic Change

Volumn 118, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 827-840

  Herrera, S ^a   Bedia, J ^a   Gutierrez J M ^a   Fernandez J ^a   Moreno, J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate change; Fire regime; Fire Weather Index; Iberian Peninsula; Reanalysis data; Regional Climate Models

Indexed keywords

FIRE REGIMES; FIRE WEATHER INDEX; IBERIAN PENINSULA; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; GLOBAL WARMING;

FIRES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; FOREST FIRE; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WIND VELOCITY;

CLIMATES; DATA; DEFORESTATION; FIRES; MODELS;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84878360464     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0667-2     Document Type: Article

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