Selecting the best performing fire weather indices for Austrian ecoregions

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 393-406

  Arpaci, Alexander ^a   Eastaugh, Chris S ^a   Vacik, Harald ^a  

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; DROUGHT; ECOREGION; FIRE MANAGEMENT; HILL; MOUNTAIN REGION; TERRAIN;

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EID: 84887320686     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0839-7     Document Type: Article

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