Climate and very large wildland fires in the contiguous western USA

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 899-914

  Stavros, E Natasha ^a   Abatzoglou, John ^b   Larkin, Narasimhan K ^c   Mckenzie, Donald ^c   Steel, E Ashley ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

AUC; GACC; logistic regression; niche space; precision; rare events; recall; wildland fire

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908227271     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF13169     Document Type: Article

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