Projection of wildfire activity in southern California in the mid-twenty-first century

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 7-8, 2014, Pages 1973-1991

  Yue, Xu ^a,b   Mickley, Loretta J ^a   Logan, Jennifer A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensemble projection; Santa Ana wind; Southern California; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890359628     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-2022-3     Document Type: Article

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