The climate-wildfire-air quality system: Interactions and feedbacks across spatial and temporal scales

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 719-733

  Stavros, E Natasha ^a   Mckenzie, Donald ^b   Larkin, Narasimhan ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; NITROGEN OXIDES;

AIR QUALITY IMPACTS; AIR QUALITY SYSTEMS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; INTEGRATED MODELING; PARTICULATE MATTER; REGIONAL AIR QUALITY; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84911474180     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.303     Document Type: Article

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