Interannual variation in biomass burning and fire seasonality derived from geostationary satellite data across the contiguous United States from 1995 to 2011

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1147-1162

  Zhang, Xiaoyang ^a   Kondragunta, Shobha ^b   Roy, David P ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

biomass burning; climate change; fire seasonality; geostationary satellite data; interannual variation and trend

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904691874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JG002518     Document Type: Article

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